jpsdad,
Thanks for your additional input about losing traps. We don't live on the farm, so that was the reason for my additional question. I was considering that I would sometimes put the trap in the creek on a Saturday, and then pull it on the following Saturday.
Our tiny little creek has a very large watershed, so even small pop-up thunderstorms can cause a significant creek rise that will certainly attempt to steal my traps and wipe out any larger fish capture structures that I might build. I will have to consider anything left in the creek long-term as subject to loss.
