Rare Catches

Every since I started my passion for the outdoors, it seems I’ve always been looking for the rare catch. I’ve caught, fished, and hunted many larger that average game and fish, but I’ve always looked for the catch of a lifetime. I bring up this topic after reading a story about an Indiana man catching a fully white muskrat, which is the photo shown here.

I always carefully inspect any game that I catch for any small “defect” or uniqueness. I remember previous years in which a caught a muskrat with white spots on its belly fur and last year a ‘coon I caught was very unusually colored; I just had wished that the muskrat would have been all white and the raccoon fully a cinnamon (a certain hereditary fur color).

Both my uncle and my grandpa have had their share of unusual catches and so has many other hunters, trappers, and fisherman. My uncle has caught on a couple of occasions the cinnamon ‘coon, which I mentioned earlier, and my grandpa has had the most success at rare catches (I think because he has gone hunting longer than most and thus has had more chances at a catch). My Grandpa Ferguson has caught black, orange and even one albino coyote along with hundreds of regular ones. His albino coyote he gave to a furdealer, which he had mounted in his fur trading room.

I hope to be able one day to catch one of these rare specimens of a species and be able to mount it and “show it off” so others will know that I’ve hunted hard in my life and had many hunts, just like my grandpa has done.