Beaver help
#23464
11/28/2013 03:25 PM
11/28/2013 03:25 PM
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I have a landowner who wants some beaver gone, I scouted it today and found lots of active sign. There is no dam or lodge and no clear underwater runs to use 330's in but some good trails on land I plan to snare with 3/32 cable snares. It has been a while (like 20 years) since I trapped beaver. Are the prime yet, or should I wait to get them in January or later? Should I also use some castor mound sets or bait the chewed trees with castor or stick with the land snares on the main runs?
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Re: Beaver help
#23465
11/28/2013 03:43 PM
11/28/2013 03:43 PM
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trapperDave
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snare the slides and if you find a fresh dropped tree set snares along the side of it. 10" loop nearly touching the ground.
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Re: Beaver help
#23466
11/29/2013 07:48 PM
11/29/2013 07:48 PM
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Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 4,192 Decatur County/Greensburg, IN
Yaz
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I always "spring trapped" beaver, unless somebody NEEDED them out quick. Primarily, because all the other seasons were over, and I had the time, and had free'd up traps. As far as primeness of the hides. They are better the later in the season it gets. How much difference in $$ it makes, I don't know.
Castor mound sets in close to there, with a big trap on a slide, or snares like TD said if you can't find a den or feeder creek to get a 330 under water.
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Re: Beaver help
#23467
11/29/2013 08:05 PM
11/29/2013 08:05 PM
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Posts: 4,192 Decatur County/Greensburg, IN
Yaz
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We found this odd for a beaver to be in this location. This is a tile ditch, that other than right where the beaver is at, is only 3" to 4" deep! You can step across it anywhere. This spot has a 30" tile coming out, and the beav. has dug a den RIGHT under the tile! In addition, it has chewed about 2' off the bottom of the tile. Its about 5' deep right there and a BEAR to get a 330 in the den. So, with both of us working at it in knee boots, and trying not to fall in, we got the 330 set. We also put in a steel trap at his attempt at a new dam. Farmer dug out the old dam last week. Tracks says its a large beav. As you can see, the ditch is very small. It is also about a 1/2 mile off a road in the middle of corn fields, and not even close to a major tributary. Here is Dad, who is almost 70 setting a 330 by hand! He wanted me to climb back up the bank, and walk back to the truck to get his setters. I told him "by the time I did that....just to let me have it, and I'll show you how NOT to be a sissy, and I'll set it by hand". I knew he still had it in him. Might have been a little grunting, groaning, and few choice words, but I didn't have to climb out of there to fetch the setters!!! Creeks are still froze, so we didn't much set in the way of water sets. Hopefully, it will thaw out with the warmer temps next week. I'm basically working DP's, a couple bucket sets, and a couple coyote sets for now.
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Re: Beaver help
#23475
12/12/2013 10:49 AM
12/12/2013 10:49 AM
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I have trapped transient river beaver with castor mounds successfully. MB 750 offset to one side with poke sticks.
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Re: Beaver help
#23478
12/13/2013 07:32 AM
12/13/2013 07:32 AM
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Posts: 744 Columbus, In
psearchery
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tell your pops way to go yaz. all that hard work and time paid off.
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Re: Beaver help
#23479
12/13/2013 09:13 AM
12/13/2013 09:13 AM
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nickgsp2
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Re: Beaver help
#23480
12/13/2013 10:19 AM
12/13/2013 10:19 AM
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bean
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Haha nice job. Hard earned beaver.
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Re: Beaver help
#23484
12/13/2013 04:05 PM
12/13/2013 04:05 PM
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delaney
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Really nice Yaz. Its great that you get to share those times with your father.
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