Trapping Thoughts and Spots Bewteen the Seasons

As the transition of the seasons continues and we experience yet again another snowfall and this time in April, my mind tries to switch from the mindset of trapping and ice fishing to turkey hunting and fishing the spawn. However, it seems more than ever right now that I’m thinking about trapping. When my mind is exhausted at night after a full day of school, track, and chores my mind races to the thoughts of pocket sets and game trails in which I could put a snare in front of them. I rarely dream but when I do it is typically of a fantastic day on the trap line. Maybe I’m focusing my thought son this more as I fear that this will be my last opportunity to trap and hunt like I have for years ever since I was in first grade (or was it kindergarten?). Either way trapping and hunting always been a huge part of my life and has always been a topic on my school work and even this very blog that I have created in which you are reading.
This year more than ever I REALLY want to catch a fox in trap as its something I have always spent time doing but have had no rewards from the work I have put into it. I think some what of a pitfall for me at this aspect is that it takes a while for the scent of a human to come off of a “dirt hole” set. However, this doesn’t mean that I haven’t ever had any action on any dirt hole sets that I have put out in hopes of catching one of these red coated critters. At least once a year I have one of my land sets that I have laid out set off and the set near destroyed. On those days I find myself extremely disappointed with the result, but I do get some hope knowing that I had put the trap in the right area for a catch and that there are still some foxes (coyotes I think more likely) around). One new trick that I’m going to try this year is to while I’m setting my traps to spray some of the deer hunting scent eliminator on my gloves and clothes and this will hopefully take a large majority of any scent that I have away.
Recently in the last week I have come upon a new trapping spot that is very local to home and is a hot bed of muskrat activity. I know next year and during the school week that I will find myself trapping this marsh, which name I do not want to give up to other trappers reading this just yet. Anyways though, along with next year being my last school year of trapping I want to have a higher catch number then ever and I think this hot spot of muskrats will help me do that.