Recent content by jagermeister

One more check today and put 8 more nice rats in the sled. I pulled all my traps to give it a rest until I can dedicate some more consecutive days off of work. Wrapped up with 38 total for this first round. Last winter I hit 50 for the first time. This year, my goal is to break 100.

13 of the first 17 were worthy of putting-up. The remaining four were either too small or too damaged.

13 more today! Off to the races!

These rats up here are usually pretty big… L to 3XL for the most part. Last year I averaged about $2.50 for the pelts. I expect it’ll be similar this season, but I’ve also got a buyer for the carcasses… so that will get me an extra $1.50 each.

First check of the season and it was a good one! On the board with 17 muskrats today. My water sets were on fire… mostly around huts and feed beds. I did have 20 conibears set on bank runs and those were disappointing, catching only 1 and had 1 misfire also.

I swear it’s been blowing 30 mph for two weeks straight. I’m in. But this wind really fuggin sucks.

Skunked tonight! What a bummer.

Doesn’t get much better than that!

Wind is turning NW. Just saw two more young bucks cruising through. As much as I’d like to stay out here, I think this wind is doing me more harm than good… potentially hurting our chances for the evening hunt. Think I’m gonna have to bail.

My son and I had some action last night with a couple bucks that just didn’t come in close enough for a shot. I’ve been out this morning since 8:30. I thank the good Lord for Goretex today… this wind would be brutal without it. One young buck cruised by at 8:45 and a lone doe walked by me at...

That sounds to me like the folks in your little community responsible for managing those grant funds aren’t holding up their end of the deal. A fault of theirs, not the granting agency. Personally… with two small children of my own… I put a lot of value in access to high quality public...

I should have removed the “smartass” undertone when I typed that. What I meant to say is, this grant is probably (most likely) not tied back to the Division of Wildlife. It’s probably from Division of Parks and Watercraft. The article definitely left out some critical information. Then...

That’s the sad reality, unfortunately. A small amount of people still doing it only because they love to do it. That’s great for them, but terrible for recruitment of new trappers. We need to get more young people involved before we lose it completely!

You guys do realize that ODNR is a huge entity with like 12 different divisions, right? One of them being, PARKS and Watercraft. This most likely is NOT your hunting or fishing dollars being spent.

Me and the little man are out for the evening sit, a perfect wind in our face, overlooking a greens plot… hoping to put an arrow through his first deer ever.