Trapper & Predator Caller

Grappled 'COONS

I’m trapping a little mud-bank ditch. I can’t wade the goldarn thing because the muck and mire are too deep, so I have to walk the bank to trap it. There are a few muskrats here, but mostly I’m looking for raccoons and mink.

Besides the mud, there is another reason that I can’t wade that ditch. It is in the floodplain of a major river. When the river floods it deposits free-floating logs, some of

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