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This item SOLD at 2024 Feb 25 @ 20:00UTC-5 : EST/CDT
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This Fisher, Marten & Weasel trapping trip is being offered by Emerson (Butch) Bornman.
The trip is six days and seven nights of Big Woods Trapping out of my cabin in Portage Lake, Maine. Trapping will be done in the North Maine Woods (NMW). Parts of the NMW require a gate pass @ $16 per day (no charge if over 70 years old). The fee for a Non-Resident Maine Trapping license is $318.00. The general trapping season will open on November 3, 2024. The auction winner will need to provide their transportation to Portage Lake Maine. Pick up at the airport in Presque Isle Maine (PQI) is available at no charge.
All meals, lodging, trapline transportation and trapping equipment will be provided. The cabin has running water, electricity & Internet service. Verizon cell phones work well at the cabin. The lucky winner will need to provide their clothing and personal items.
Weather in November can be tricky. Be prepared for temperatures between zero and sixty degrees. Snow depth will be between zero inches to two feet.
Animal populations and their willingness to be trapped vary year to year. In a week of trapping near Portage Lake I expect to catch several martens and several fishers. The weasels may or may not show up. The trapper in 2019 caught about three martens, three fishers and no weasels. The trappers in 2020 caught more than ten of each. The trappers in 2021 & 2022 & 2023 caught marten, fisher & weasels. The trip is for a single trapper, and they may keep all caught animals. A second person can be brought along for a fee of $500 paid to E. Bornman.
Important note: E. Bornman will be acting as a guide and the guest trapper will do most of the work. Depending on arrival date there may or may not be traps already set. Fresh trapping ground will be available.
For additional information contact E. Bornman via email at: ebsurveyor@aol.com or (610) 972-6045. If you call leave a message as I don't carry or answer a phone. Trips were done the last four seasons and references from those trips are available.
Some additional information. The trapping week will be seven days in the last half of November. Additional days can be added if you buy the food & gas. December is hit or miss as snow may stop woods travel.
We will be using lynx exclusion boxes, see photos.
Valued at: $2500.00
DONATED BY: Emerson (Butch) Bornman.
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PO Box 86, Cole Camp, Missouri, 65325, United States
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