a wander on sunday ferreting

[woodga 170]

well sunday saw me and young markg out again two ferrets, spade,nets, the lurcher and terrier and away for the hour long ride to have some fun before the end of the ferreting season which for me will be next sunday , the ferrets can have a well deserved rest and get fat again :whistling2:

any way on arrival we saw a few rabbits sitting in a small paddock just beside the farm house this padock runs along the banks of the south tyne and very picturesque although prone to flooding in bad weather. the terrier quickly found and marked the first set of the day

nets were layed but nothing so the first of many digs on this warm muggy day

we even took it in turns to dig :whistling2:

at nearly every sett they just would not bolt today

the funnyest thing we saw was us missing two rabbits from unseen holes which were a good few yards from the sett. while i was talkng to the farmer :blush-anim-cl:. both bolted and the terrier was after one sam was after the other we actually thought they were away but blaze turned his rabbit after a 100yrd chase back towards us no less than three times back and forth this rabbit was desperately trying to get back into the warren we actually hoped it would try because we still had nets down . but the rabbit suddenly clapped in some long grass .

blaze was running the scent and picked it brilliantly from the seat much to our pleasure after watching this chase for nearly five minutes :laughbounce2:. blaze then went along the river bank and caught the second escapee under some blackberry bushes the nose on this little dog amazes me at time,s . sam had a rabbit under pressure after a dicey chase along the treeline but just missed his connection as this rabbit went to ground only to be picked up by lifting the sod on a previous dig .

waiting for abolt which never came and the inevitable dig

this is the same sett this time digging to the second ferret which also had a kill at just over 4.5ft

looking down ito the hole

the ferret looking back at me the little bas@rd

we got the rabbit after nearly half an hour of pecking through hard clay and stones

young mark checking to see if another rabbit is in the stop end

no rabbit there so we back filled and set off again and again more bloody digging lol

time to call it a day.

19 rabbits the end result

todays rabbit were hard won even though we did not get a big bag we both enjoyed the dayand the spade got a nice shiney shaft with all the digging :laughbounce2: cheers mark

[paddy polecat 129]

Nice report and pics mate, think those rabbits were well deserved after all that digging, ah well look on the bright side at least you had a good day and a good haul of bunnys.

[trapper123 7]

EXCELLENT POST AND PICS,IT SOUNDED HARD WORK WELL DONE.

[Coneytrappr 30]

Good write up, always nice to see folks who aren't afraid of the spade. A good bag of well earned rabbits.

[klashnekoff 3]

Good pictures Woodga, Nice to see you posting agian.

[Teesdale-rabbiter 15]

good pics

[The one 8,481]

Nice picts and read mate the spade seems to be the order of the day just now

[ace32 4]

looks like the day finished spot on,me and andy got to my permision,2 foot of bliddy snow never got a net down,just bolted to the shotty,s but like you said,they just would not bolt,well it was snowing like owt aswell,but we had a laugh,we must be all mad as hatters, ,good pics aswell lads,

[ferreterben 0]

Good report and pics well done

[stealthy1 3,964]

Good show Woodga and Mark, but who shined the spade shaft up

[IanB 0]

Nice one colin, we had a lot of digs on sunday too, blasted things

[Pigeon Controller 1]

Good Bag, and hard earnt, to the people who say you don't need a locator they would loose so many rabbits, again well done.

 

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[gerardmufc 0]

brillant pics mate

well done gald to see someone workn hard

[ferretville 69]

Enjoyed that write up and pics lads . This time of year usually gives the old spade a bit more work

[walshy0988 28]

that was a good read and pics all good bunnies