Re: Wooden cubby set for otter?
[Re: trapperroscoe]
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10/23/23 10:32 PM
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Yukon John
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What types of sets would you recommend? I couldn’t seem to find a run going into it but there was a hole about the size of a paint can opening a little above the water line Seems like a muskrat hole to me?
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Re: Wooden cubby set for otter?
[Re: trapperroscoe]
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10/23/23 10:35 PM
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Here is a set I have used several times in the past with success.This is a winter set.I have never told anyone about this set before.Find an old dead beaver house in water(not up on dry land)that has not yet collapsed.After the first permanent freeze up,take a RR lining bar and ream out a hole in the side of the beaver house into the chamber.Take a box(no screen) and shove it down into into the hole.leave enough sticking out to hold a magnum 120 trap in the slots.Then cover well with spruce boughs.The animals will find the hole even under snow. This is a blind set with no bait.After freeze up animals like otter and mink are always looking for spots to get under the ice or up on top of the ice from under.They always look around old beaver dams and houses for this access. This set works best in early winter and early spring.it takes mink and Otter. I have seen otter tracks in the snow going directly to this set.
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Re: Wooden cubby set for otter?
[Re: Boco]
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10/23/23 10:45 PM
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Yukon John
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Here is a set I have used several times in the past with success.This is a winter set.I have never told anyone about this set before.Find an old dead beaver house in water(not up on dry land)that has not yet collapsed.After the first permanent freeze up,take a RR lining bar and ream out a hole in the side of the beaver house into the chamber.Take a box(no screen) and shove it down into into the hole.leave enough sticking out to hold a magnum 120 trap in the slots.Then cover well with spruce boughs.The animals will find the hole even under snow. This is a blind set with no bait.After freeze up animals like otter and mink are always looking for spots to get under the ice or up on top of the ice from under.They always look around old beaver dams and houses for this access. This set works best in early winter and early spring.it takes mink and Otter. I have seen otter tracks in the snow going directly to this set.
Correct me if I'm wrong, this set would be on the top (dry) side of an uninhabited beaver house?
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Re: Wooden cubby set for otter?
[Re: Yukon John]
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10/23/23 11:36 PM
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Here is a set I have used several times in the past with success.This is a winter set.I have never told anyone about this set before.Find an old dead beaver house in water(not up on dry land)that has not yet collapsed.After the first permanent freeze up,take a RR lining bar and ream out a hole in the side of the beaver house into the chamber.Take a box(no screen) and shove it down into into the hole.leave enough sticking out to hold a magnum 120 trap in the slots.Then cover well with spruce boughs.The animals will find the hole even under snow. This is a blind set with no bait.After freeze up animals like otter and mink are always looking for spots to get under the ice or up on top of the ice from under.They always look around old beaver dams and houses for this access. This set works best in early winter and early spring.it takes mink and Otter. I have seen otter tracks in the snow going directly to this set.
Correct me if I'm wrong, this set would be on the top (dry) side of an uninhabited beaver house? Correct.
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Re: Wooden cubby set for otter?
[Re: trapperroscoe]
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10/23/23 11:43 PM
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Unfortunately in mn we can’t open a beaver house no matter if it’s old or new Before I started making those sets I just set the ones that already had a chew out hole. Just look for those and set them up like I told you. Unless you are not allowed to set at or on a beaver house-then you are screwed. Thats when you need to join your provincial or state trapping org to get silly rules changed.
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Re: Wooden cubby set for otter?
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10/23/23 11:46 PM
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I could tell you about similar sets at an old dam,but no use me telling my sets if you cant use them.
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Re: Wooden cubby set for otter?
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10/23/23 11:59 PM
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Small water that flows out of a beaver pond ..and connects to another pond is a hot spot. Just look for pinch points...or make some pinch points out of rocks and logs .. Cross ovahs are the ticket for otters...set on the shallow side ...make at least 3 sets ..8 feet apart.As they don't travel alone.
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Re: Wooden cubby set for otter?
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10/24/23 11:14 PM
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I could tell you about similar sets at an old dam,but no use me telling my sets if you cant use them. Go ahead, some of us could use them.
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