I had brought up the fact that after about 3 dozen various locations for muskrat sets in a cattail or bulrush slough (marsh), I sometimes start to forget where they all are. This was a response to Patriot76's discussion of his various scrap piles at various old farmsites that are waiting for spring. I mentioned that a guy can always flag a mrat hut that has a set but risk the possibilities of theft.
Army Grey Truck said this:[QUOTE] Hey DakotaRog, this year was the first I used GPS and took my flags down...twice as many in the traps now as last year, won't be flagging ever again, I know now I had poaching going on.[QUOTE]
Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/day-l...#ixzz3OOInWVpB
My question back would be, were the guys stealing from you taking the mrats and resetting the trap like nothing had been around or were just dropping the set off trap back down in the water?? Do you mostly water trap or do you go after just about everything?
Marking wetland sets with GPS is a good idea and if we ever get rats back around here in large numbers and get set out 50 sets, I'll make sure I'm marking them with a GPS.
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