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Trod similar path as kids I brought my first motorbike brand new with possum skin money in 1978. The last pussuming I did was 1984. The shine had gone off it when the average price was $5-6 a skin and I was making much more gold dredging.

Working for myself chasing possums and gold for close on 50 years now has been a life, a lot of the time I wonder what I was doing this for there were some hard times. But look back I would not change a single thing, the hard times crazily are probably now my best memories.

I have not chased possums since 84 for many years I hardly saw one dead or alive on the roads. I think 1080 was keeping them under control. I’m now seeing them all the time again and what you have said confirms what I have been thinking some of them have got smart and are not taking the 1080 baits now. I hate 1080 sometime in the future I’m sure the experts will finally realise what an environmental disaster it has been dropping all over our back country.

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I went back up a couple of creeks recently for the first time in 5 years never seen bird life like it there was nothing there 5 years ago not a single fan tail but now its swimming in birds always thought the problem is the rats but the 1080 nails everything

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Man ya go in a forest 5 days after 1080 drop first day 1 or more little possums, nex day traps full o big buggers, any new food big ones won’t touch until they see little ones alive after eating it. Cause they all hungry by then, they that smart blown my mind last few yrs. Only 1 animal smarter than a possum a whitebait lol I reverse the saying in whitebait season :eyes:

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Doc never listen, met a old fella run data trap lines for doc 25yr. He recons he still got job cause every 3 possum he gets is 1 on paper, he recons his tally make em look better so he still around, most either honest or cheats ie claiming more so they personally look good to doc, dont last long as doc cant use there numbers.