Mac
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Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 3379
Loc: The Great State of Nebraskey
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Muskrats are the biggest curse of owning a WRP tract. They will turn any levee they can find into swiss cheese, in time.
The ONLY reprieve/solution is to find somebody willing to go in and trap the bastages out.
Last winter before freeze up, we had an agent that trapped 329 rats in a 60-acre marsh next to mine. He did it in just 2-3 trips. The marsh froze before he could get to mine, but taking out that many rats in our bottoms is like letting air out of a ballon.
I only pray he gets back down there again and traps as many rats as he can. I can't thank the dude enough for his efforts. 
Like dog or somebody said, most of the guys in the field are good folks. It's the idots in Jeff City I don't have any use for at all.
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griffin
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Reged: 12/13/05
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Loc: the most dangerous city in Ame...
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Yeah.....agreed.... except that if some of them who know this is BS the way duck hunting is over-managed in this state don't start speaking up, I'm gonna forget there are good people there and trash the whole bunch!!
griffin
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Mac
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Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 3379
Loc: The Great State of Nebraskey
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Last fall the same agent trapped out over 600 muskrats in our marshes. Guess the price on rat pelts improved, and I suspect he made out OK. Myself, I can't imagine anything that would be harder work than trappin' rats...but I am grateful as hell!!!
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