well, went out to the creek, and it was justabout frozen up, i walked across the beaver dam to cross the creek (its about 150 yards long) i found a nice otter slide and a mink trail, so i put a couple holes in the ice (about 3-4 inches thick right next to the dam where it is moving) and set a couple traps in the trails, hopefully i will have pictures on here of whatever stumbles into it