why Trap? same reason you do most things because it is fun, other reasons might be you like the outdoors and would like to spend more time there , then there is outwitting your quarry,getting rid of pests, making a few dollars, although making money is not all that easy and requires a certain level of expertise
we used to get up early in the am. to get all the traps checked before school, its great being out on a cold day before any lights are on, you know the same feeling when your hunting and and no other hunters have made it to the woods yet and you fell like you have the whole place to your self? well while trapping you most likely will have the whole place to yourself as there are not near as many trappers as hunters, nothing but the stars and the animals stirring , or your down by the water with the brook gurgling looking to see if your set is disturbed, smelling the earth thru nose hairs with frost on them, even the farmers aren't up yet
i remeber the smells more than anything , the smell of my Dad smoking during a break with the smell of swamp mud wafting from the holes my feet just punched in to the mud just a short break the tide was on the way in lots of traps to still check. Dad loved it , he never hunted,that i knew, just trapped . and he was good at it. But you are almost always good at what you like to do
I just helped check the line and skina few Muskrats, he did all the real work , Like lugging burlap bags full of traps to the swamp , and lugging burlap bags ful of rats back out, and sometimes lugging me out too. Ahhh the smell of bulap bags with swamp mud on them . brings a tear to my eye thinking about those days , I miss him but i'm sure there are liberal bag limits and long seasons in heaven