Re: Under ice beaver/conibear?
[Re: TrapperTy]
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12/31/11 10:59 AM
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When I check my under ice conibears I just punch small hole between stand sticks and feel the top of the trap jaws with ice chisel.You can easily feel the beaver in the trap and the direction he was travelling when caught.Just takes a minuit.Usually pull after first check anyway.(multiple traps)
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Re: Under ice beaver/conibear?
[Re: Boco]
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12/31/11 09:45 PM
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i use cardboard to insulate the hole. works good for me
family trapper.... thats a great idea, i'll try it next time. thanks
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Re: Under ice beaver/conibear?
[Re: TrapperTy]
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01/27/12 04:16 PM
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Richard, I have mostly Beaver Spikes with BMI Slide Free locks on them, but still have a few with Reichert reverse bend washer locks on them. Alot of my lines are testing grounds for my products, and a place to use the snares I goof up on and am too cheap to throw away!!!
Len, The bends you see in the photos are caused by the caught beaver swimming around the pole, and the kinks are from a beaver spike still on the pole. The beaver gets caught and usually swims down and around the pole and gets wrapped on the lower snares, still on the pole, and pulls hard enough to put these kinks in the snare they are in.
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Re: Under ice beaver/conibear?
[Re: TrapperTy]
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01/27/12 07:51 PM
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Furtrapper what prevents them form chewing on the pole (the trap is on) you are holding on page 10?
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Re: Under ice beaver/conibear?
[Re: akcowboytraper]
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01/27/12 09:28 PM
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Furtrapper what prevents them form chewing on the pole (the trap is on) you are holding on page 10? When that 330 knuckles em over the head, they aren't chewing that pole! and plus there is a safety wire running up through the ice regardless.
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Re: Under ice beaver/conibear?
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01/27/12 11:04 PM
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I meant the pole that is used for the trap not the one you are using for bait I was just thinking why wouldn't you use pine or spuce instead of birch just seems it would make the piece you are using for bait more appealing?
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Re: Under ice beaver/conibear?
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01/27/12 11:17 PM
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Rally - When you use those BMI slidefrees under the ice, do you pinch them together a bit like some do with the BMI Mini?
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Re: Under ice beaver/conibear?
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01/28/12 11:25 AM
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I meant the pole that is used for the trap not the one you are using for bait I was just thinking why wouldn't you use pine or spuce instead of birch just seems it would make the piece you are using for bait more appealing? That's poplar my friend, and poplar is what the beavers eat most up here. It's what's in abundance. Hardly any birch trees. And I have never, not once in my life seen where a beaver has even chewed down a spruce tree.
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