This. That’s what you’re paying for. Ask whoever you booked with and they’ll tell you what to bring for yourself, and they’ll handle everything fishing related for you

Well Bob I'm not going to be much help , true at times I hate my CPAP mask and have popped the fasteners off and tossed it ha ha
I sleep in a chair instead of a bed recently but I'll try the bed again .

I losen the straps and adjust then for a lose fit then go to the other pair of straps and do the same . I hope this helps you !

Yep, it's brutal what they've done here. One of my employees lives in st cloud in what used to be a nice neighborhood, now his cars and garage are constantly being broken into and his neighbors are Somalis.

Come spend some time in st cloud and you guys will see why I'm sick of the neo cons causing wars and liberals bringing the refugees in. Close the border and keep our troops home, we have enough problems

Pm only. And no, not the only way.

The super-power of footholds is that when blind set and well concealed with little or no disturbance, beaver have absolutely no defense against them other than luck.

And the achilles heel of footholds is that you absolutely will have misses and toe holds - more than with snares or BGs in my experience. That is because a big beaver’s back foot puts down a 9” long pad total length. Think about that - the front of the rear foot can easily be on the pan, amd the back of the foot can be across the levers or the jaws and be pushed up even on a big 9” trap - center of the pan to the jaws is only 4-1/2” on a 9” spread. So bigger is better for back feet. And doing summer nuisance work, setting for front feet invites non-targets. So I want a big trap with a small pan, and I accept that there will be misses.

My experience suggests that Swamp is right - to catch it at that location you may have to wait a while, and in some cases it may never come to that location again, and it will probably be extra wary of anything unusual everywhere it goes. But it still has to go about the business of living and being a beaver, so my next move is to find where it IS active and set another foothold there in full stealth mode. And it may even get lucky again, but eventually its luck will run out. Probably. Rarely but not never, one will just leave for happier waters after a few pinches. But that also solves the problem at the location where you are being paid. In those instances hopefully you are being paid to solve the problem, not by the beaver…

It’s the same here.

We have good parts and would prefer folks to stay away. Mostly Californians and folks from the New England states that move here and vote incorrectly and try to turn us into the states they fled from.

You need a flywheel puller to pull it off of the tapered shaft.

I often find PVC in dams in urban areas.

A bit off topic, but has anyone else noticed clay flower pots and broken pieces of clay flower pots in urban beaver dams? I find a lot of them. There was one shallow “cactus” orange clay pot that I would find in a particular dam about every time a new pair moved in and rebuilt. I started tossing it out as far I could in the water like a frisbee, sometimes 8 would get it out there 30 yards or more, and they would always bring it back. Eventually it broke and I started finding broken pieces. After almost a decade, I still find an piece of it in that dam about every year.

If I'm worried about the stabilizer freezing down, instead of just sticking the stabilizer in the ground I'll make the hole bigger than it needs to be and stuff some dead grass in it before sticking the trap in. That's enough to keep the trap fairly stable and let a coon pull it out of the hole.

Open Set Patten - More Foot Movement - More Catch Circles





This is the only time I don’t mind digging at a set.





Ten sets produced twelve catches in four days.

Gang setting takes more coyotes off the payroll in a shorter amount of time with fewer misses.



Flat Set – Young Female

Nah, not worth it. Better hunting in Michigan.

But, if you do come. I’d head over to the far west side of the state. Definitely would stay away from 5B or 5C.

It was great on the folks that worked hard to pass it. I know how hard it is to get things changed and it is frustrating.