Stockton behemoth

[MoCarp]

where and how the tracks are made will tell you about the critter, the way a mink moves along a creek bank tells me its a mink instead of squirrel tracks, you can tell 20 feet away (snow) or how and where fox tracks are, house cat, grey or red fox how they act tells you bunches, 'yotes tracks may look like a dogs, but they sure don't cross a field the same ways, bobcats just how they move will tell you...took me a life time of trapping to learn these things...learning to read "sign"

 

[straw hat]

Oh, MoCarp, that brings back memories. Trapping helped pay my way through college. I trapped for about 15 years. Back in those days if some woman say you buy a steel trap in a store she would unload on you for hurting those poor critters. Animal rights advocates and the fake fur movement was in full swing.

[MoCarp]

2 hours ago, straw hat said:

 Back in those days if some woman say you buy a steel trap in a store she would unload on you for hurting those poor critters. Animal rights advocates and the fake fur movement was in full swing.

yup, people went nuts there for a while...till a yote or bobcat ate their pet fluffy

[tjm]

38 minutes ago, MoCarp said:

up, people went nuts there for a while.

People  have always been nuts.

[Walcrabass]

MoCarp,

  I have to agree with Straw hat. Brings back great memories. The anti-fur stuff really put a cramp on things. The other thing is that people don't keep chickens anymore. When I was a kid anything that could eat/kill/molest a chicken was dead meat. Trappers were welcome for this reason.

Walcrabass

[dan hufferd]

On 5/6/2018 at 9:29 AM, MOPanfisher said:

If one made it out of Fellows a good rain could provide enough water to make it there.  Would be a rare thing at best I would think.  I remember the Tiger Muskie and Northern too.

check this out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFDhk6xujw

[Old dog 417]

I had no idea they were that motivated to make their run upstream.

Great video.

od

[navery]

I know for a fact that there are 36" plus musky swimming in McDaniel lake which is between Fellows and Stockton. Saw one on a stringer last year and saw one surface 4 foot in front of me 2 weeks ago while catching bait from the bridge. Very possible with the past flooding for them to make it to Stockton. IMO