For the first time in almost 50 years I will be setting traps this year on small block of private land I own. Raising a family, life and a career in which my employer forbade me and my coworkers from holding trapping licenses (and in my case also a hunter education instructor certification) all got in the way.
Did the course 18 months ago, got my private land license, bought traps and snares and looking forward to starting again. Boiled traps and snares today, building marten and fisher trap boxes which is new to me as I trapped farmland and water when I was a teenager. My daughter just did her course this winter, but unfortunately she lives across the country from me so we aren't going to be able to trap together.
I forgot how much I enjoyed it and am looking forward to the late fall and early winter.