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Post by cornfedcoon on Jun 28, 2011 18:58:58 GMT -5
I have gotten to know a lot of great trappers and great guys this past season. One thing I think all of us have in common is that we all like to tell stories! I can sit for hours and listen to the older trappers talk about the cool/unusual/memorable things that have happened to them on their line. So here it goes, what is your favorite trapline story?
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Post by streamer on Jun 28, 2011 22:26:31 GMT -5
I guess you could call it a story, but more like a "this happened to me" type thing. I had just bought a new pair of waders and was in a hurry to try them out. I was hustling toward a beaver flow outlet when I tripped on a beaver cut tree stub and went head first down the bank into the pond. I went completely underwater and had the occasion to check my new waders for leaks from the inside out ;-)
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Post by deadwolf on Jun 28, 2011 23:01:54 GMT -5
It was a cool drizzily day when i went out to check traps.I had 2 skunks in traps 15 ft apart. I was thinking about having a little mercy on one of them skunks when that rascal turned on a dime and sprayed me. I called my wife to bring out some clean clothes for me. She asked me what happened. My reply, got sprayed by a skunk. The wife asked me, What am i wearing, My reply was. My whitey tighties and rubber boots. The only thing i could hear was her laughing. In the end. I drove home and then made a mad dash for the house when i got there.
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Post by cornfedcoon on Jun 29, 2011 19:05:58 GMT -5
Hahaha Deadwolf thats a good one
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Post by thefurtrapper on Jul 1, 2011 9:15:00 GMT -5
Well to match the one above ^ I was out near the lake ADC trapping a few skunks on these people's lake lot. I was younger and less knowledged then I am now about trapping. Even though I could trap any skunk I wasn't sure about sizes always. So i'm popping along putting in cage traps and 160's in cubby's. Till I ran out of 160's and I had a 330 I was hoping to set for beavers. But I found a real good skunk hole, so I set the 330 near it. Had 2 skunks the next day, one in a cage one in a 330... Well the one in the cage was just as easy as covering it over and drowning it in the lake..The one in the 330 was small enough that it walked through and got caught by just infront of the back legs but behind the anis hole. So well I bonked him with a log, thought I killed him but only knocked him out and went carrying him to the bush to dump the body, when all of a sudden I smelled skunk like mad, I look down and he was very much alive and squirting juice all down my ankle.. But I finished him, went in, showered like a crazy man, scrubbed my ankle raw nearly. And no one could smell it. So I went to school. Long story shorter - they knew a trapper was in the school and I got sent home.
Also last winter I had set a Lynx Cubby with a 330 conibear and ended up catch a weasel in it. Well it of course cremated his bones and skinning him was like skinning a snake!
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Post by ScottRainbolt on Jul 1, 2011 20:15:07 GMT -5
lets see i belive i was around 14 and me and charles the old guy that got me into this where running fox trap down at the foot of boatmans mountain well old charles was wearing them out reds and grays seeed every set he had set had a fox in it and i was doing my thing possum possum skunk boy i was wearing them out lol we came around the rock face and there he sat the biggest red i ever caught i start tword him and charles says hold on something aint right that fox wasnt fighting the trap just sitting there growling a low deep growl then we notice his feet none in a trap charle says stay back i think he might be rabid he eases up and that fox holds his ground well charles puts him down and then knells down to check him out and busts out laughing falls back on his butt tears just rolling he says get your fox boy and that was the start of the famous sack set if you get the meening lol
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Post by cornfedcoon on Jul 1, 2011 21:24:19 GMT -5
Haha no wonder he was growling!
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Post by ScottRainbolt on Jul 1, 2011 21:37:14 GMT -5
yea i would growl to or cry alot lol
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Post by mohawktrapper17 on Jul 2, 2011 9:22:52 GMT -5
well i just started trapping last year and im young, but i was walkin the beaver swamp lookin for rat and beaver slides, when all of a sudden i was moving across the bottom of the swamp without walking, turns out im a good turtle surfer, alligator snapper bout 2 feet across he ended up moving fast all of a sudden and slip i went in, that day i dont think i ever found what warmth was
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Post by catman50plus on Jul 2, 2011 11:33:48 GMT -5
I may have told this and if I have, please forgive me............ I got a call from a friend one night. He had caught a skunk and needed it gone. I get there, and sure enough, he had one in a trap I knew nothing about.....but I covered it, and picked it up, and off we go. Now it is dark, I take the trap out, set it in front of the truck, in the head lights, and then realize, I have no idea how to open this trap. I make a call and get the instructions on getting it open. Things are going ok, but the skunk is against the door and wont come out., so I bend over to move the door so it will open. and my friend, being the helpful fellow he is, has a 6 foot long stick, poking at the door, and as I reach for the door, that skunk jumped right out the trap. takes 2 steps, and his tail goes right up. Now there I am, my face is not 2 feet from his guns, pointed right at me.I think to my self in this split second, that this is not good. and I spring up, rotate over out of the line of his fire. I tell you that move would have killed the ordinary man itself, but I got through it. All this time, my friend was laughing so hard, he was rolling on the ground, after that skunk got to walking away. LOL, funny thing was it was right up wind from his house, so you know that skunk did spray, after I found him in the light again........ I had to do that after he laughed so much..... so I had me one too on the way home.
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Post by haydenmekeland on Jul 2, 2011 12:19:37 GMT -5
i got a lot but ill let yall no just one for now, i have a lot of slips in my winter trapping time of year from ice snow all of the things in that range. but anyways. i was walking down he trail to my trapline i get to the creek where i had set for mink marten weasels and beaver. well i get to my first trap theres a mink seciond trap mink again and so on i get to my 330s and so far 3 beavers nice size nothing to big thew. i get my last set theres a beaver in is HOLY COW THAT THING IS HUGE i pull it up out of the water what do ya no its a stuffed animale i only brought one friends to set these traps so i give him a call RING RING, he answeres and casually says hello? i say you wouldent happen to no about a stuffed beaer in my 330 would you? slight giggle no i dont no what your talking about, i hang up roll my eyes to myself and laugh turnes out what i thought was a 50 pound beaver was a stuffed animale my friends stuck in there.
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Post by cornfedcoon on Jul 4, 2011 21:38:10 GMT -5
Haha Hayden did you get him back?
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Post by haydenmekeland on Jul 4, 2011 23:06:11 GMT -5
yeah cornfed he actually got that idea from a video on youtube but i was like man thats one let fur i could have had so im going to come back twice as hard i though and thought nothing.. thought some more nothing finaly just got a randome idea so we both go out get to our lines go our seprate ways at the area we got set checked got some furs re-set and baited we go out we get half way down the bunny trail and it was already around 9:30 so by that time its bitch dark out i go back to the line he goes home and my uncle had a old garlilla suit he has wore for haloween the past few years where are about the same size so it worked out perfect. he has like 5/6 trail cams set on his line and the cams are just bunjy corded not locked or anything so i got far back in the woods then turn my lght off keep them in the backpack stored away in the woods, star walking up to the cams from the woods then walk the whole line of cams kinda hunched over kinda like what you see (big foot) do on the history channel lol. get up to the cams pretend to sniff them and garbage like that just acting like big foot left the cams there so it had looked like bigfoot walked threw then i had of course ( big-foot) FUR! cut off a chunck and put a chunck of big-foot fur in all of his traps even conies he had only had like 15 traps at the time and only like 9 where set so it diddent take to much work of erroft to do this. he gets to his cams and get the sd in his camera what!?!?! hayden!!! what the f... is that?!?!?! loook at it!! im like i dont no lookes like some kind of bear like thing and then im like but there aint no bears around here so lets take it home put it on the cimputer and get a better look at it. i go lets just check the lines me mink mink coon squirrel ect. him bigfoot fur bigfoot fur bigfoot fur bigfoot fur bigfoot fur bigfoot fur him what the he.. is going on?? me i dont no i got some furs what did you get just a whole bunch of black fur but it feels face its not soft like fur here feel, me or your right hmm well lets go home and take a look at those cam vids, him yeah lets go kinda in a pissy tone i just giggle slightly. we get back to the house look at the videos im thinking to myself dang! im a great bigfot it looks real! hes freakin out like dude lets putt his on the enternet finaly im like dude its about tim you learn not to mess with peoples traps. he goes what do you mean i go im big-foot he goes o.... im like yeah leave my line alone he goes i have learned my lesson and thats my story
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