Invite some younger people along on your trapline this season How did you get started as a trapper? For most of us, both young and old alike, it was a relative — father, uncle, older brother or cousin — … [Read More]
Editor’s Call
Editor’s Call: Good Luck, Trappers
Savor every minute you get to spend on the trapline this year By Jim Spencer It’s close. Oh, so close. By now, everything ought to be just about ready in your fur shed, the way it finally is in … [Read More]
Editor’s Call: Getting Old Stinks
Don’t let preventable aches and pains hold you back this fall By Jim Spencer If you were one of the numerous trappers I visited with at this summer’s National Trappers Association convention in Escanaba, Mich., you probably heard me … [Read More]
Editor’s Call: Trapping Is Who I Am
Fur prices won’t slow down Executive Editor Jim Spencer By Jim Spencer So I’m sitting here on my boat, catching catfish for eating and small bluegills for dog-proof trap bait, and in between bites I’m thinking about — what else? … [Read More]
Editor’s Call: A Little Elbow Room
Falling fur prices are a bummer, but there’s some positive news By Jim Spencer It’s just my opinion, but the recent downward adjustment in fur prices isn’t altogether a bad thing. Sure, it’s nice to sell green raccoons for … [Read More]
Editor’s Call: One Big Ol’ Ennui-nie
Our executive editor has a case of the mid-summer blues By Jim Spencer I was dawdling around the house not long ago, feeling sweaty and out of sorts and getting nothing at all accomplished, when Jill accused me of … [Read More]
Editor’s Call: Market Adjustment
Fur prices have dropped, but it’s not the end of the world The 2013-14 trapping season hadn’t even started before the gloom-and-doomers started griping about fur prices falling off from last season’s astronomical highs. I won’t bore you with the … [Read More]
Editor’s Call: The Season From Hell
The weather threw a wrench into many trappers’ plans this year One of my trapping buddies has a standard answer when some other trapper talks about how difficult it can be to keep a trapline functioning productively. “If it … [Read More]
Editor’s Call: Our Side of the Story
Trappers should be educating non-trappers about what we do The TV news item was about the upcoming duck season, and the soundtrack in the background was a recording of somebody blowing a duck caller. The calling wasn’t bad, but … [Read More]
Editor’s Call: Losing Can Be Good
Trappers can learn a lot by considering other opinions Trappers like to argue, and one of the most common things we argue about is the “right” way of doing things. The thing in question doesn’t matter much — making … [Read More]
