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RIP Bob and Larissa I think I can hear that old song playing softly in the background....What's it called?...Oh yea, "Muskrat Love"
Well the deed is done! Decided to fish after work and lay out a couple traps in the shack. Opened the shanty door, and lifted the hole boards to find a fat little muskrat staring up at me. He bolted for a hole he kept open, so I decided to fish a couple hours..... The hours passed and the rat didn't come back. I set the traps and readied them in the hole, when UP COMES A RAT RIGHT IN THE HOLE I'M SETTING THE TRAP IN! Hey, it was my lucky day. I dispatched him with the ice spud, and prepared the traps again... Well DEJA VU! ANOTHER RAT! This time he's to quick for me and bolts back into the depths. So I wait a minute, feeling like one of those PBS polar bears on a seal hole. He makes the wrong move and comes up again. Like his compadra, he, (or she) is dispatched humanly with a blow from the spud. Muskrats - 0 Fat guy - 2 Didn't think I'd get them this way, but what the heck! I still layed 3 sets in the holes.... Probably a nest of them under my shack. A regular muskrat commune eh? (Image removed from quote.)
No good deed goes unnoticed at Iceshanty.....in honor of this act of extraction, Lonewolf has prepared this document of recognition honoring Barleydogs rare achievement....Grump (Image removed from quote.)
I believe I remember reading about a fisherman spearing thru the ice with his black lab in the shanty when a big northern swam by the dog went thru the hole after it and got trapped under the ice. Swimming around he found another fishermans hole. When he came up thru that hole the guy didnt try the door- he exited thru the side of the shantyAvalanche