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This week on Trapping Across America we have Chuck Welden from AL. Chuck is a trapper. He sets traps when he has time mostly on his on farm and for other land owners around his county. He has more experience with beaver and is now learning the predator side of the game. I have been down to his farm three times now having a lot of fun and going over the finer points of catching coyotes, raccoon and otter. We have Chuck on tonight for not only talking about trapping, but as a land owner. If you want to trap on quality farms with more up-scale owners, you have to understand them and what makes them tick. What makes Chuck tick? That would take hours, but we do get him to open up from the point of view of a landowner that manages his property from deer, turkey, quail and fish.

In this weeks episode Jeff Dunlap (Dunlap Lures and Sarah Gomez (SheTraps) talks about the season being over and... now what? What do you do with your traps, your furs, baits/lures, your time and how to prepare for next season. Enjoy!

This week on Trapping Across America we are talking about how to find ground when trapping out of state. How to find places to trap. How to find a place to skin and all that goes along with out of state trapping. We also talk about a lesion that I was taught again this year. Be set up for what you are trapping at the moment. We are still working on getting this site upgraded, so it will be faster. Setting up a dedicated server was a bigger project than I expected.

This week on Trapping Across America we have Sam Pole from Virginia. Sam is a great guy to talk too. He has been around the block a few times. He traps in the urban areas around his home in VA. He was trained and was friends with the trapping legend Charlie Dobbins. He fur traps and runs a neat ADC business with the most of his work being beaver. Sam uses the Hancock live beaver trap in a way I have never heard of before. Very interesting indeed. Kick back, grab a cold one or a steaming mug of coffee and enjoy!

This week on Trapping Across America we have the one and only Opossum Skinner from the great southern state of Virginia. If you have been to very many trapping conventions you have meet Mr. Skinner. He is the southerner guy that is always smiling, having fun and sharing his trapping stories to who ever will listen to him. He is a easy guy to talk with, but if you really listen past the humor, you will figure out real quick that he is a hard core trapper that understands the game of trapping. I always enjoy talking trapping with him, because he thinks outside of the box and understands animals and uses this thought process when he is setting steel.

Jeff Dunlap and Sarah Gomez join Chris Walter on his muskrat trapline in North Dakota. An out-of-state trapping trip is a lot of work and takes a lot of planning and organizing, but Chris has mastered it! In just a short 10 days, we caught well over 1,000 muskrats! Enjoy!