muskrat season

[paddle maker]

Does anyone know if one can harvest muskrat with a small game license and if so what is the season?

 

[Gunner_1]

Do you want to hunt them or is it a nuisance rat on private property
i think your best bet is to call M.N.R if it's a nuisance rat on private property
i think you can shoot them but i think i would go to MNR that way you will
know for sure or look in the regs but sometimes getting answers from there
can be a pain in A$$.But i think the seasons are in the early spring and fall
when fur is in it's prime i think it shuts down sometime in spring so they can have there young
Sorry not much help

 

[paddle maker]

I see them all the time when duck hunting and hear they taste ok and I wouldn't mind tanning one for the wall as I do all my own skinning and tanning. Just wondeoutred if they fell under fur bearing mammals under small game permit. I will post info when I find out.

 

[paddle maker]

Called the mnr today but they coudnt give me a strait answer they transfered my call to almer but thendropped my callso I willtry again tomorrow.

 

[mtaz]

I had a muskrat problem in my duck impoundments last season. I got a licensed trapper to come and trap some for me. He got 12 of them in a couple weeks. I don't know what the rules are on shooting them, but I do know they are delicious (the back legs and thighs). Even the wife and kids had their fill.

 

[paddle maker]

Mnr called me back today they say there is no open season for hunting so only a licensed trapper can harvest them. I have already signed up for fall course.