Post by minnesotascott on Mar 30, 2011 18:08:58 GMT -5
Well its spring beaver trapping time!! My partner and I are at the same lake as the previous story, but this time the ice is gone.
We made our way to the beaver damn to check our sets. As I walked across the damn to check a beaver set my partner was pulling a beaver and trap out of the water. We felt like real big time trapping men as that was the first beaver set we had ever made.
I got across the damn and yelled back of the roar of the water rushing over the damn" Hey we got another beaver here!” When i got to the set i pulled it out of the water with a big fat grin on my mug. After getting the beaver out of the trap i had to remake the set and proceeded to do so. As I was working on resetting the #4 double long spring trap it happened. SNAP!! At first i was sure what went on, and then it dawned on me. I got both thumbs stuck in the trap jaws!!!!! Man o man I was stuck but good.
I yelled to my partner and he looked over to me and I showed him the trap hanging from my thumbs! Well he busted out laughing so hard then yelled to me" How much do you thing we will get for your pelt?!” He started walking across the damn to help me get the trap off, laughing the whole way. My partner stopped along the way to bend over and laugh a real good one. He slipped and the SPLASH he was waist deep in the water! Good thing the air temp was warm!
As he worked to climb out of the water on a very wet and slippery beaver damn he would side back in the water. I started to laugh at him now but I still had a little trap problem. It took some doing but while he waded back to the bank to get out I was able to remove my thumbs from the trap myself.
After both sets got remade we made a little fire for him to dry his clothes and for us to have a very hearty laugh!
We made our way to the beaver damn to check our sets. As I walked across the damn to check a beaver set my partner was pulling a beaver and trap out of the water. We felt like real big time trapping men as that was the first beaver set we had ever made.
I got across the damn and yelled back of the roar of the water rushing over the damn" Hey we got another beaver here!” When i got to the set i pulled it out of the water with a big fat grin on my mug. After getting the beaver out of the trap i had to remake the set and proceeded to do so. As I was working on resetting the #4 double long spring trap it happened. SNAP!! At first i was sure what went on, and then it dawned on me. I got both thumbs stuck in the trap jaws!!!!! Man o man I was stuck but good.
I yelled to my partner and he looked over to me and I showed him the trap hanging from my thumbs! Well he busted out laughing so hard then yelled to me" How much do you thing we will get for your pelt?!” He started walking across the damn to help me get the trap off, laughing the whole way. My partner stopped along the way to bend over and laugh a real good one. He slipped and the SPLASH he was waist deep in the water! Good thing the air temp was warm!
As he worked to climb out of the water on a very wet and slippery beaver damn he would side back in the water. I started to laugh at him now but I still had a little trap problem. It took some doing but while he waded back to the bank to get out I was able to remove my thumbs from the trap myself.
After both sets got remade we made a little fire for him to dry his clothes and for us to have a very hearty laugh!