Great narration man and enjoyed your finale at the end !! Inventiveness prevails with the rat trapping. Great ideas man.. I’m going to be trying this in Maine of 2020. Appreciate these invaluable tips!! Yeah I cold smoke mackerel here using yellow birch wood and the taste resembles that of ham. The texture of the flesh resembles cheese. I could eat this every day. I tell you the reason why people consume so much salmon every year is because these oily fish like mackerel, herring, sardines will keep you warm in winter. The oils from marine mammals and oily fish keep you warm. Yeah notice my legs are tough like iron full with stamina ingesting black bear meat. Moose meat too I eat that raw. Best tasting game meat I ever ate so far to me was OTTER!! Love that in a crockpot. Been decades since I used my game calls. I need to get up to Alaska and wanted to go to Greenland, Northern Canada. Love duck hunting and that has been a decade or more since I duck hunted. Time goes by fast in my area when your busy foraging for wild foods, hunting,trapping.
When you get them in both feet, with traps on opposite sides, I call that a sucess... Hahahaha, that was great, and funny too... Nice sets, and I just love the way it feels watching this videos, filmed on the head mount...
The value in a muskrat is the fur. They are used for the inside liner of gloves, inside of mink or sable coats, inside fur hats, and also make really nice blankets if you get enough. They are used to teach kids trapping skills and the meat can be used as bait for trapping other predators during season.
It depends on where China is with their inventory. If China is buying they can bring $5-$8 usd, if China is not buying they may only bring $1 usd. They can be used to make really nice blankets or the liner for hats, gloves, and coats if a person is making their own goods.
when we were kids yeah! my bro told me a story about feeding rats potatoes its gives them the haars😳🥇70's you know that dry throat feeling haar haar 😆👍
When you go on a date and you tell them your hobby is catching rats does that ever get you laid ?.dude you are so lucky living in Alaska that's somewhere I've always wanted to live.
I miss the days when I was in highschool and rats were everywhere. Our rat population is way way down. We have high mink populations currently and river otters are making an very strong comeback. Since my father caught one in a 1 1/2 coilspring when I was in middle school I've saw multiple family units of otter. Just this past Saturday I saw 4 sitting on a rock in the middle of a stream in the county east of me. Hopefully our wmu gets a season soon.
I really like your setup. I always set them on the bank. You are much more successful !!! Is this something you came up with or did you purchase the setups somewhere? What size and kind of rubber grommet is holding the system up?
I came up with the setups, i only use my small kayak so space is limited, the poles are fiberglass driveway markers from lowes, the baskets are bird feed baskets, and a piece of clear tubing slides on the pole and the pvc coupling just sits on it.
Great video, beautiful country up there! How long are the fiberglass driveway markers that you are using, and what is their approximate diameter? Also what did you use to make the incision in the PVC couplings to hold your traps? I would like to try to make a few of these sets up as I have a client who has a tremendous muskrat problem in one of their ponds.
I just posted another video about the fiberglass rods, they are 48" long and like .375" round (whatever that is). I just place the pvc coupling in a vice and used a hand miter saw to make the cut. The miter saw blade thickness is about perfect to hold number 1's.
I'm 49 and want to start trapping here in Nebraska. I only have a couple of wma near me. Any suggestions? Just a couple of #1's to start with. I like your pole method. Thanks for the tip! Something I can make myself.
The very first thing is to make sure you know the trapping laws for your state and each wma that you are interested in. Take time to call the local game warden or biologist or fish and game office or all 3. After that buy a dozen or so legal traps, 110 bodygrips (make sure to get a safety grip) and #1 footholds if both are legal. Then spend every free moment in the woods, do alot more looking and observing than you do setting traps. You just need to see an animal to hunt it, but you have to know where an animal will place its foot in order to trap it. I have alot of equipment because i like to invent stuff for no reason. Bodygrips in a tunnel and a foothold just under the water on the end of a log is really all a person needs for success. Good luck and have fun.
Hey I trap/trapped that same area last season, didnt do good at all. I went out just before the big overflow, then tried to pull them but couldn't get on the ice till it was almost too late. PM me and maybe we can link up this season.
It is a first generation 12' Nucanoe, as stated many times, I Love it and it is irreplaceable. I have put more hours in it than any other boat I have ever owned.
Thank you for doing the video, it brings peace to those of us that are working in stuck inside and can only live vicariously through you
Ingenious potato set. So simple & so effective. Thanks for Sharing.
Awesome idea with the pictures. Definitely going to try that.
PVC
I really like that double set using pvc
loved listening to you out enjoying life. God is the answer
I do this for a living ,,, why do i look it this in my free time ,,, cuz itz just the best job in the world
Good to see someone using the good old jump trap...I sorely miss trapping rats.
Great narration man and enjoyed your finale at the end !! Inventiveness prevails with the rat trapping. Great ideas man.. I’m going to be trying this in Maine of 2020. Appreciate these invaluable tips!!
Yeah I cold smoke mackerel here using yellow birch wood and the taste resembles that of ham. The texture of the flesh resembles cheese. I could eat this every day. I tell you the reason why people consume so much salmon every year is because these oily fish like mackerel, herring, sardines will keep you warm in winter. The oils from marine mammals and oily fish keep you warm.
Yeah notice my legs are tough like iron full with stamina ingesting black bear meat. Moose meat too I eat that raw.
Best tasting game meat I ever ate so far to me was OTTER!! Love that in a crockpot.
Been decades since I used my game calls. I need to get up to Alaska and wanted to go to Greenland, Northern Canada.
Love duck hunting and that has been a decade or more since I duck hunted. Time goes by fast in my area when your busy foraging for wild foods, hunting,trapping.
When you get them in both feet, with traps on opposite sides, I call that a sucess... Hahahaha, that was great, and funny too... Nice sets, and I just love the way it feels watching this videos, filmed on the head mount...
Looks like some perfect bobcat country! Tight chains!
Mike Leikam I think they have lynx up there
The value in a muskrat is the fur. They are used for the inside liner of gloves, inside of mink or sable coats, inside fur hats, and also make really nice blankets if you get enough. They are used to teach kids trapping skills and the meat can be used as bait for trapping other predators during season.
How much do you get for each rat skin if you were to sell them ?
It depends on where China is with their inventory. If China is buying they can bring $5-$8 usd, if China is not buying they may only bring $1 usd. They can be used to make really nice blankets or the liner for hats, gloves, and coats if a person is making their own goods.
@@friedgizzard Thanks for the quick response man - happy hunting :)
A small stainless steel hose clamp would keep it from sliding down if it is designed to be stationary
bad ass clip hope to see more this season
Can u make a video on how u set your conibare and jas traps on the fiberglass rods thanks
Great video thanks for sharing.
that is a GREAT idea, but i would use them cheap clamps from harbor freight to hold you stuff in place. quick n easy
I use picies of cobb corn on mine they love it more then potatos try it
when we were kids yeah! my bro told me a story about feeding rats potatoes its gives them the haars😳🥇70's you know that dry throat feeling haar haar 😆👍
Really enjoyed your video, subbed .
pal, soon as you said hay flats i knew where you are.
When you go on a date and you tell them your hobby is catching rats does that ever get you laid ?.dude you are so lucky living in Alaska that's somewhere I've always wanted to live.
I miss the days when I was in highschool and rats were everywhere. Our rat population is way way down. We have high mink populations currently and river otters are making an very strong comeback. Since my father caught one in a 1 1/2 coilspring when I was in middle school I've saw multiple family units of otter. Just this past Saturday I saw 4 sitting on a rock in the middle of a stream in the county east of me. Hopefully our wmu gets a season soon.
I am sure the guy that put that big chain in was setting for beaver.
Paint a 2 inch piece of wood on string off top of post as a marker. It will float on top water.
Old indian word for Malard- DINNER
I really like your setup. I always set them on the bank. You are much more successful !!! Is this something you came up with or did you purchase the setups somewhere? What size and kind of rubber grommet is holding the system up?
I came up with the setups, i only use my small kayak so space is limited, the poles are fiberglass driveway markers from lowes, the baskets are bird feed baskets, and a piece of clear tubing slides on the pole and the pvc coupling just sits on it.
29:52 I know the feeling and I just started!
I use hose clamps instead of your o rings I made a t wrench and it’s super quick
Kind of kayak is that ur using
JR Revolt it is an original nucanoe.
Nice set up I subbed
Right now i am trapping in alaska
Great video, beautiful country up there!
How long are the fiberglass driveway markers that you are using, and what is their approximate diameter? Also what did you use to make the incision in the PVC couplings to hold your traps? I would like to try to make a few of these sets up as I have a client who has a tremendous muskrat problem in one of their ponds.
I just posted another video about the fiberglass rods, they are 48" long and like .375" round (whatever that is). I just place the pvc coupling in a vice and used a hand miter saw to make the cut. The miter saw blade thickness is about perfect to hold number 1's.
I'm 49 and want to start trapping here in Nebraska. I only have a couple of wma near me. Any suggestions? Just a couple of #1's to start with. I like your pole method. Thanks for the tip! Something I can make myself.
The very first thing is to make sure you know the trapping laws for your state and each wma that you are interested in. Take time to call the local game warden or biologist or fish and game office or all 3. After that buy a dozen or so legal traps, 110 bodygrips (make sure to get a safety grip) and #1 footholds if both are legal. Then spend every free moment in the woods, do alot more looking and observing than you do setting traps. You just need to see an animal to hunt it, but you have to know where an animal will place its foot in order to trap it. I have alot of equipment because i like to invent stuff for no reason. Bodygrips in a tunnel and a foothold just under the water on the end of a log is really all a person needs for success. Good luck and have fun.
@@friedgizzard thank you. I'll get a few more traps and definitely talk to Tim, our local game warden, before I go out.
What kind of pole are you using?
They are driveway markers from home depot or lowes, in the lower 48 they are by the for sale and garage sale signs.
Interesting set.is that anise and Vaseline that you used as lure?
At the time i made this video, yes. I later added muskrat gland and picked up a few more in late spring sets.
Where did you get the rods for those sets? Also, what footholds were you using at the time?
The rods are driveway markers sold at the hardware store by the yard sale signs. The traps are sleepy creek number 1 and victor number 1 jump traps.
did you make the coni clips you were using yourself or did you buy them?
They are Magnum Power Clips that i bought off of Ebay.
@@friedgizzard I can't find them anywhere
Hey I trap/trapped that same area last season, didnt do good at all. I went out just before the big overflow, then tried to pull them but couldn't get on the ice till it was almost too late. PM me and maybe we can link up this season.
What is the name of your canoe? That looks nice for trapping compared to my sit in yak
It is a first generation 12' Nucanoe, as stated many times, I Love it and it is irreplaceable. I have put more hours in it than any other boat I have ever owned.
what stat do you trapp in
I got one of those trap ! What your saying they don't make them any more ?
James Thornton
The victor no. 1 jump trap is no longer made. They make a perfect muskrat trap.
I have the same stile of trap