mink

[the durham digger 127]

Due to local flooding i always seem to be at work at the moment... pumping flood water into the river don or 1 of its tributarys, on average im working between 18 and 20 hours a day, so iv decided to take the terriers... and im pleased i did. Being a born and bred fox digging man i have always neglected mink and now i realise iv been missing a trick, today my little uns and me hunted and killed 2 big dog mink, and the hunting was first rate and a great test of the dogs finding ability, and prey drive.... the mink get where dogs cant so if your dog doesnt have the drive to dig on then u might as well f**k off home to watch X factor or wank off watching jeremy kyle. Mink also tend to bolt seval times and take the chase over land and water before the dogs finally get him into tree roots or a rabbity spot that they can dig on2 him and deal with him...... im sure my black pup learned a trick or two today, not a bad day considering i was at work... being payed for working my little uns, dont make my mistake..... dont disregauard mink, they are great sport!

[reddawn 2,173]

i love walkin the river swale an streams for em way the dogs, makes for a good day

[bobby blackheart 1,209]

well done-cant beat mooching along the river banks for mink-in my eyes a good test for a dog-used to catch quite a few in traps up my way but aint as much about now as we have otters and they seem to move the mink on-used to take my lurcher to work with me when pulling cables for b.t. great nites.atb

[reddawn 2,173]

deffo mate, funny ye should say that, id said on here before that we were over run way mink till the otters come back to the river a few years ago, still the odd mink about but they are usually found in the wee ponds an lakes along the river

[bobby blackheart 1,209]

by me they have moved into the little brooks and waterways away from main river-and a few of the allotments-lads caught them in traps after they gone in for the rats/mice.

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

havnt done any in ages, used to hunt them regular when i had 5 or 6 plummers.

[albert64 1,882]

on tues morning i took the dog for a walk through some rough fields heading towards the mersey

theres always a few rabbits about and the odd fox, next thing the dog puts up a mink which runs down the bank to the river

as the mink makes the water the dog launches himself from the top bank right into the middle of the river

which is probably 15ft up and flying, the mink kept showing itself and the dog kept hunting it

with me trying to get him out the river we must of gone 200 yds before he lost him in a drain on the other side

fair play to the dog he had to get back in the river and come to my side,

i've never known of mink in this area but found a half grown one dead this morning

[buster gonads 862]

There used to be a few hole'd up accross from the prison on the river Don but they seem to have moved on since the enviroment lads cut most of the willows down, i walked there yesterday and they'v cut the remaining willows down now, b*****ds, they might be on the island between the salmon ladder and the main river, thats were i,d look, send the dogs over , buster.

[the durham digger 127]

Yeah when i was still up in durham mink were few and far between, but the river wear is a clean river with a good head of game fish and a fairly healthy otter population... but since moving to yorkshire i bump in2 mink regularly, i think its down to the river don still being heavily contaminated from the steel works, but i do tend to see most on tributarys such as the river e-beck, the went and land drains... great fun!

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

keep off the went ...its mine

well its the farmers at the minute, more water in the fields then the river.

didnt see a lot around there during the winter but often ran them up and down during spring and early summer

[the durham digger 127]

Hahaha im not sendin my dogs over by the salmon ladder... the pike are like aligators up by doncitraz!

[the durham digger 127]

The went is a nice little river, the dearne is crawling with mink aswell.... ideal walk out on the summer nights to keep the dogs fit!

[buster gonads 862]

Yeah when i was still up in durham mink were few and far between, but the river wear is a clean river with a good head of game fish and a fairly healthy otter population... but since moving to yorkshire i bump in2 mink regularly, i think its down to the river don still being heavily contaminated from the steel works, but i do tend to see most on tributarys such as the river e-beck, the went and land drains... great fun!

The Don aint as bad as you think, i,v had trout out of there this year and i came across a bloke who had a salmon and a trout, good head of barble, chub and roach too, you need 30lb plus to frame on the rotherham opens at sprotbrough if the river is running at normal level, plenty of food for the Mink. I,v not seen Mink on the E-beck yet but i did come across some fancy kind of trap early on this year down Toll-bar way, good hunting fella, buster.

[pbrookes 450]

The ones on the dearne near me are from when the mink farm used to be at cadeby. Still get a few on there now

[the durham digger 127]

Im working and living at norwood pumping station, on thorpe marsh until we have pumped all the floodwater off the flood plane next to marsh lane.... so im looking forward to a good look about with the dogs, just had a welfare unit delivered so me and the dogs are sleepin up there til levels are back to normal, 1st thing in the morning im havinv a good walk out