LOW-WATER & NO-WATER RACCOON SETS

As a kid I grew up on the small creeks and branches that wound through my Grandmother’s farm, as well as the many neighboring creeks and farm ponds. Farm ponds are where we fished and hunted frogs. Those creeks and ponds are also where raccoons lived and hunted for fish, frogs, crayfish and lownesting songbirds. Growing up there as a young man is where I caught my first beavers, muskrats and raccoons. The water was shallow then and my first beaver greeted me on the bank with the weights I wired to the end of my drown wire in tow. The bottoms were rocky and would not allow for a stake to be driven into them. Muskrats flourished in the farm ponds as well as the creeks, and the raccoons liked them, too.

That was a long time ago and now I find myself living on my Grandmother’s old farm, and still trapping those same creeks and ponds. The muskrats and beavers