We had a successful trip to Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge on Thursday afternoon. We checked and removed the traps that were set on Monday. Sonia was in charge of trap checking as an extension of her handout on aquatic herp trapping techniques. We had a total of 16 minnow traps and crawfish traps set along the margin of the lake in the flooded forest. This day we only caught a few newts. When we took a walk in the forest on and near the boardwalk we saw a surprising number of snakes, many frogs, and at least one lizard.