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You could have bought a nice beaver cap at the Minnesota Trappers Convention in Litchfield last weekend.

But it was the characters I was after.

Right away, we bumped into Daniel "Pogo" Reich, an Iowa trapper, inventor of Pogostick Anchors for traps, t-shirt hustler, and trapper.

Add carpenter as his other full-time job.

Pogo was on a roll.

"I'm either building or killing. That's the two things I do," he said, and then was asked about his nickname.

"I'm named after Pogo the Possum. He was kind of a political smart ass," he said about the Walt Kelly cartoon strip character that ran from the l...