[Progger]

Catfish?
Nope.
Crabs?
Nope.

Feels heavy....

Keep pulling...

Sled's worth it's weight for us old timers

DID see some good sized LM bass, I think, in one pool.

Not fishing, but outdoors and in water. Lot more work too, lol. Glad the seasons about over

 

[O sea D]

You eatum I do

 

[buckshotgumbo]

I want a hat.

 

[Progger]

I want a hat.

LOL, few are destined for hats for grandkids.
A friend's wife made this for me. If my DIY attempts fail, I'm calling her!

I REALLY appreciated it during those few COLD days in December.

 

[pkeating]

Me too Buckshot!

So Progger, Do you eat them? How much for a pelt these days? Check traps the next day, or wait longer? How many traps you set? Is the tail good for anything?

One day I was wading the north branch of the Potomac fly fishing for trout. I was standing in the middle of the river with water up to my navel, 50 yards from either shore. I looked up to see a beaver swimming directly at me. (I had zero experience with beaver to this point in my life.) When it got about 10 yards from me it started a circle, radius 10 yards with me as the center point. When it completed the circle it slammed its tail on the water and dove. Well, that noise was shocking, in every sense. I could not believe the sound, the power. It scared the daylights out of me. I had no idea where that beaver was but in my mind it was heading my way intent on mauling me. It had taken about 10 minutes of careful and deliberate walking to get where I was but I bet I made it to shore in 10 seconds.

Beavers are cool.

Pat

 

[pkeating]

That hat is awesome!

 

[Progger]

Meat looks like fine grained beef.
I make BBQ out of them sometimes.
Decades ago, a pace over in Charles Co. used to slow cook them, smokily, then drowned them in BBQ for you.
If I don't eat them, gets cooked down for our dogs.
And when we raised hogs....

Tails make a great chew toy.
I actually tanned a few last year, and may try to make knife sheaths out of them. Saved some this year too. Was a place that would tan and make wallets, but they closed up.

Pelts creeping up a little this year, but not enough to make me want to catch a bunch, lol.
Castor price is down from last few years though.

I tossed what was left out back about 40 minutes ago, ran to.the feed store, and when I just pulled back in, had 5 mature and 2 immature eagles on them, and buzzards pouring in!

Like ringing a dinner bell!

 

[Progger]

I check traps every am, other critters find them tasty too. Plus, they'll bite each other up.
Crazy amount of coyote sign where I was last week.

 

[Progger]

Me too Buckshot!

So Progger, Do you eat them? How much for a pelt these days? Check traps the next day, or wait longer? How many traps you set? Is the tail good for anything?

One day I was wading the north branch of the Potomac fly fishing for trout. I was standing in the middle of the river with water up to my navel, 50 yards from either shore. I looked up to see a beaver swimming directly at me. (I had zero experience with beaver to this point in my life.) When it got about 10 yards from me it started a circle, radius 10 yards with me as the center point. When it completed the circle it slammed its tail on the water and dove. Well, that noise was shocking, in every sense. I could not believe the sound, the power. It scared the daylights out of me. I had no idea where that beaver was but in my mind it was heading my way intent on mauling me. It had taken about 10 minutes of careful and deliberate walking to get where I was but I bet I made it to shore in 10 seconds.

Beavers are cool.

Pat

There's a YouTube video of a guy getting attacked by one, upper Potomac.
And a rabid one bit a couple woman in Towson/ Timonium some years back.

 

[pkeating]

Very interesting! Thanks for posting

Pat

 

[longtail]

Good to see some trapping still happening.

 

[Hvymax]

Me too Buckshot!

So Progger, Do you eat them? How much for a pelt these days? Check traps the next day, or wait longer? How many traps you set? Is the tail good for anything?

One day I was wading the north branch of the Potomac fly fishing for trout. I was standing in the middle of the river with water up to my navel, 50 yards from either shore. I looked up to see a beaver swimming directly at me. (I had zero experience with beaver to this point in my life.) When it got about 10 yards from me it started a circle, radius 10 yards with me as the center point. When it completed the circle it slammed its tail on the water and dove. Well, that noise was shocking, in every sense. I could not believe the sound, the power. It scared the daylights out of me. I had no idea where that beaver was but in my mind it was heading my way intent on mauling me. It had taken about 10 minutes of careful and deliberate walking to get where I was but I bet I made it to shore in 10 seconds.

Beavers are cool.

Pat

Yeah probably swimming right at your junk!!!