TAG TEAM TRAPPING
Few enterprises are as solo as trapping. The image of the lone fur hunter carefully setting and checking is a classic, for sure. But does the sport have to always be a one-man show? Is there merit to perhaps taking on a partner in the coming campaign, someone like yourself who works the woods no matter the markets? In the current turmoil our sport is weathering, there may be no better time than now to form a partnership.
STARTING OUT
My schoolboy trapline team-ups were mostly out of necessity, especially since my line of steel was equal to the fingers of one hand. My first partner was the kid on the next farm over who had a whopping 11 traps, plus was a better skinner and became the boss in the fur shed. An old turkey house on my family’s place became our trappers’ shed and we lined the walls with weasels, ‘coons and ‘rats. Most first-time team-ups were similar with the combination of more tools or skills, offering the same appeal today.
Good partners work well together out on the line, often with little direction or even much talking. Over time, partners might not even see each other for a day or two while operating in widely separated sections, meeting up
