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Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on October 20, 2006, 06:51 PM:
Krusty! Where are you?
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on October 20, 2006, 07:35 PM:
Tripp,
Thanks for askin'.
Currently, I am sitting in my office. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
I've been out of town for the last week, deer hunting, I've been working on getting ready for (my first) trapping season, and getting my duck hunting gear ready to go too.
And this (not posting), is part of "working on a better attitude".
I haven't had anything to add to (or detract from) any of the recent topics, so I'm not.
If somebody needs me though, I'm around. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
No worries for me, it's all good in my 'hood.
Krusty 
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on October 20, 2006, 07:54 PM:
So, K, what are you going to try and trap this year?
Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on October 20, 2006, 08:41 PM:
Yes Krusty, do tell.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on October 20, 2006, 10:08 PM:
Krusty; Good to see that you're still around. I was afraid that I was going to need to write another eulogy for you.
Have you met George Sovie, over at Cascade Trap Supply in Tacaoma yet? The guy is a wealth of information for your area.
Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on October 21, 2006, 07:10 AM:
Krusty must be out trapping now.
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on October 21, 2006, 12:05 PM:
Lance,
I figure I'll start with muskrats, this year.
We can use colony traps without any extra jumping through legal hoops, and have a 72 hour trap check (for drowning sets), so I won't have to drive to the line every day.
I'll be mixing my trapping with some waterfowl hunting, I've found a local guy that does decoys, and the price of birds is pretty good (and I still get the meat).
I'm having trouble finding any property (near where I want to water trap) for land based trapping, but it would be an excellent place for me to learn canine trapping.
It lies inside a rifle restriction area (ie shotguns only) with much of it off limits to hunting, on a tidal island crisscrossed with sloughs, across the river from a large urban area.
There's lots and lots of coyotes, I just can't get to (yet).
I've got some time still, season opens Nov. 1, and 'rats don't prime until late in the month. We don't get a freeze up, and they hold there prime until our season ends and then some.
Kokopelli,
No offense, but I hope someone else writes the next one.
George and I go way back, I spoke with him on the phone several times while trying to get my trapping lincense, because he's the Pres. of the Washington State Trapping Assoc.
I met him person this summer at the WSTA Rendezvous, where I took Trapper's Ed.
I went for the whole three day event, and sat through every seminar I could (while not in class), I met a bunch of good people, and learned a lot.
Tripp,
I live way out West, in the Pacific Time Zone... at 7:10 AM on this board, on the Saturday after a week long hunting trip, I was snoring soundly in my own bed which I missed very much.
I got a big list of Honey-do's (2-3 days), then I am headed back out scouting and hunting for a week or so.
There's only a couple weeks 'til elk season, and I am going to the place where I shot The Mountain Coyote last year.
Krusty
Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on October 21, 2006, 01:18 PM:
Krusty,
Sounds like you've got a lot of excitement ahead of you this season. Good luck with everything -- keep us apprised of your exploits.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on October 21, 2006, 03:48 PM:
Krusty; Best of luck with the muskrats and the beaver that will follow. However......I have long suspected that water trappers have low self-esteem & are into self-abuse from being cold and wet all of the time, where-as land trapping for canines is a gentleman's endeavor. (insert smile face).
Was Delmer Kramer at the summer get together??
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on October 22, 2006, 07:53 PM:
Kokopelli,
The name rings a bell, I believe Mr Kramer was slated to be giving a seminar, but wasn't able to attend.
Krusty
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on October 23, 2006, 07:37 AM:
Delmer's been in poor health for a few years now. Hope he's ok. He's a neat ol' guy.
And Krusty, all good natured jabs & joking aside; stay safe out there. Winter water trapping can find ways to hurt you.
Posted by Norm (Member # 240) on October 23, 2006, 08:34 AM:
Krusty, best of luck with the 'rat trapping... hopefully you can get close with your vehicle to those traps... while they are small... when you add many from the colony traps, you will have a load to carry... those old burlap feedsacks work great as a carrier... or a back pack...
the nice thing... you can skin 30 'rats to one coyote...
Have fun...
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on October 23, 2006, 12:27 PM:
I got to do a little 'rat trapping in the day but we don't have too many. Where I did trap them, I was just sticking a 110 or 120 on a pole in the mud bottom near a few den sites with wedges of apple on the triggers to check on my way in to check beaver and coon sets. Those sets were always good for a 'rat or two so you didn't go totally skunked on the day (no pun intended).
I did manage to catch a great blue heron once by the beak in a #11 DLS. That was interesting. It was okay once I got him loose.
One year, the weather was unseasonably warm and I was checking traps 2X a day - at midnite and again in the morning after sunrise. Some sets, I would catch two coon a night.
At one, I was standing over this mucked up coos set remaking it in the dark. It was almost muggy and an eery, drizzly fog hung over the lake I was alongside of. With nothing but my headlamp to work by, it was very quiet. Then, this damned beaver come right up behind me - maybe fifteen feet - and slapped its tail. Holy crap! Sounded like somebody dropped a Volkswagen in the water! The day I die, I should have had another five years to go if it weren't for that beaver. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
(Then again, there are a lot of guys that can say that, huh? Pun intended. )
Good luck, Krusty. Let us know how you do. And be careful. It's been my experience that the gravitational pull is much stronger on a water line than it is trapping dryland. I've yet to fall into the water above my waders while running coyotes sets in pasture country.
Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on October 24, 2006, 06:09 PM:
Sorry to say Delmer Kramer passed away a couple weeks ago.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on October 29, 2006, 04:38 PM:
A real loss. I wish that I had the chance to get to know him better. Delmer was a down to earth, for real guy.
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