secret to scoring lots of fish and game

[bali]

right when you need them most, (ie, before winter, when pelts are prime, and animals are as fat as they will ever get) is to live on greens, fish,nuts, tubers, stuff that's available in spring, summer fall, but not in winter. Use some of it, fish guts, etc, to bait the places you have your traps, snares and nets, but don't "set" them. Generations of critters will learn to check those places for food and become unafraid of your scent. Then, when it gets cold, set the traps and nets and it will be WORTH tending them every day! You simply MUST get back a LOT more calories than you burn, and you have to dry a lot of acorns, nuts, fish and game, so that you dont have to be out in the cold, rain, fighting snow, risking your life on the ice, just to get the food that you SHOULD have stored up before winter set in.

[bali]

you'll want about 40 traps, snares, trotlines, nets, bird lime on roosts, etc working for you, and you'll want them set out in 4 leaf clover sort of deal, so that you frequently get back to your base camp, without having to lug bait, traps, caught critters, etc, so damned far.