I have to admit that I was a little disappointed with my catch rate (only about 25%) but I was happily surprised that I caught some decent sized ones. I was thinking that I'd be catching a lot more smaller juvenile ones.
It's a learning process for me and the major thing that I found out today is that rats don't like dining in the wind. All of my sets that were in the wind weren't touched but I was getting doubles on a lot of floats that were sheltered. I moved a half dozen float sets and that should remedy that. I also didn't do well in the drainage ditch going only 3 rats for 12 sets. I'll leave them there for the time being, landowner will be happy, but if it remains the same they'll be moved to the big slew with the rest.
Other lessons learned were.....It's easier to row than walk and rats love pears.
