Yesterday somebody stole most of my traps from my muskrat trapline. Early this morning, Me and the Game warden caught the SOB! Well worth spending a cold night hiding in the weeds. He was checking more of my traps on the next bay over, putting them in his pail and keeping my muskrats. The fool still had my traps from yesterday in his truck with my tags still affixed as well as 50 of somebody elses. $10/trap and $7.50 per muskrat, This puts him in felony territory.
I stopped by the courthouse to sign an affidavit and learned that more evidence of poaching, theft and narcotics was found at his property. The Warden (an old trapping buddy of mine) confiscated his truck too. Bad things happen to bad people sometimes. Nothing lower than a trap thief. Tempted to go to the spring auction and buy his truck, just to rub it in.