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Albino muskrat caught by Justin Aaron in Golden Hill, Maryland.

Rhonda's Muskrat creole on the stove for the National Outdoor Show in Golden Hill, Maryland.

These hide stretchers were used by Josiah “Joseph” Collins Truitt (1872-1957), a businessman from Mardela Springs who hunted muskrats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Justin and Larry Aaron after morning of trapping in Golden Hill, Maryland.

Rhonda Aaron's muskrat recipe

Rhonda preparing muskrat creole for the fancy category of the National Outdoor Show in Golden Hill, Maryland

Muskrat season opens the first of January. This trapper, Stanley Bennett of Mardela, works the marsh of the Nanticoke River. Trapping muskrats is dangerous business - it is easy to step in an unseen hole. Despite this hazard, most trappers work…

Photograph of a muskrat trapper with his catch on a wharf