I just wanted to send a quick note to thank you all for the information you have already provided me through your answers here on the forums.

I'm not yet an apprentice but I have ordered some books (the ones produced by the California Hawking Club and The Falconer's Apprentice by William Oakes) and paid my CHC membership dues.

With any luck I hope to have everything in order to be ready to trap this winter.

Thanks again!
Jeff