My good friend Frank is teaching 6poundbass trapping. This is today’s haul. 
 

 

On 12/2/2023 at 3:51 PM, 12poundbass said:

My good friend Frank is teaching 6poundbass trapping. This is today’s haul. 
 

 

That’s awesome! Send him down I need some help 😂 

First time posting in this forum. I'm not a trapper but thought this thread would be relevant. I fish a number of HOA lakes that have a large muskrat population. I was told that the HOA in one large neighborhood took action by introducing mink (didn't know that was legal). I haven't actually seen one, though the 'rats are conspicuously absent lately. What I do notice is a proliferation of "lodges" built from rolled up aquatic vegetation, primarily over old muskrat runs and in front of storm drains. I don't miss the muskrats (they destroy the banks) but was wondering about the possible impact on bass populations in ponds of 2-4 acres.

@The Bassman, possible impacts of the mink? You’re right it’s not exactly legal for Joe homeowner to move wildlife but people like me have a permit to do it 

We've got a couple of otters hanging around the neighborhood pond in the back where the creek comes into play. I have no interest in trapping. The MDWFP has been notified.

 

Good Fishing 

6 hours ago, The Bassman said:

I don't miss the muskrats (they destroy the banks) but was wondering about the possible impact on bass populations in ponds of 2-4 acres.

I doubt mink would have a measurable impact on fish.  While they do generally inhabit areas and habitat near water, and they can swim, they aren't prolific fish eaters like otters.  I see them frequently along the banks of a river when I'm deer hunting.  They are not much bigger than a gray squirrel, just more elongated.

10 hours ago, greentrout said:

We've got a couple of otters hanging around the neighborhood pond in the back where the creek comes into play. I have no interest in trapping. The MDWFP has been notified.

 

Good Fishing 

I had one swim by our dock all evening Friday, I’m not worried about it but they do seem to cause trouble in small bodies of water. This water is a massive river system so they are just part of it all 

Sometimes you just gotta go back to the basics. Pest control told them there was no fresh mouse evidence. Well I’m no pest control man but I can catch a mouse

 

Are those best fried or baked?

On 12/21/2023 at 5:19 PM, roadwarrior said:

Are those best fried or baked?

Just shoot em like an oyster 

I used to enjoy trapping coyote and foxes, but haven't trapped anything other than mice over the last several years.  Every year I swear I'm going to dig my traps back out, but never seem to get around to it.

I trapped a toddler at daycare today. What do I win?

31 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I trapped a toddler at daycare today. What do I win?

 

8 hours ago, J Francho said:

I trapped a toddler at daycare today. What do I win?

A loaded diaper ~

A-Jay

 Wrong thread

28 minutes ago, J Francho said:

 Wrong thread

LOL ~

Fixed it . . .

A-Jay

 

This joker was eating a foot or two of grass  a night down by my boat ramp…the key word is WAS. Also got a little one too. Unfortunately for the little one, our pit bull got aholt of it through the trap somehow before I could get it out. Apparently the big one and our dog bit each other’s snouts through the cage too, because both were bleeding…

@N Florida Mike

Is that a nutria (coypu)?

I've never seen a live one, uh, never seen a dead one - you know what I mean.

 

3 hours ago, BASS302 said:

@N Florida Mike

Is that a nutria (coypu)?

I've never seen a live one, uh, never seen a dead one - you know what I mean.

 

Yes. I grew up calling them swamp rats. Had never heard them called nutrias until I was in my 30s…

On 4/20/2022 at 3:28 PM, hokiehunter373 said:

Couple months late but mine and my boys first ever.  Gotta figure out what to do with the pelt for him

 

2 years later and my little girl is now on the board

 

Nice work !!!

 

yall are going to have to shoulder the load going forward as I’m about to retire from trapping Friday and try another career