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Re: Beaver under the ice
[Re: Finster]
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01/02/18 10:18 PM
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Boco
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No two are ever the same.It even changes from month to month.End Feb and March is prime time for under ice beaver trapping here.Good snow cover and less ice being made at night.Best conditions and the pelts are peak prime.Dec/Jan lots of ice being made every night.
Last edited by Boco; 01/02/18 10:22 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Beaver under the ice
[Re: Finster]
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01/02/18 10:24 PM
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Oh Snap
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Anyone ever see beaver coming out from under 2 feet of ice and chewing on spruce? Starving!
I found a old house and the ice was 3 feet thick and when we busted through there was no water. It smelled kind of like a barn and was active. I met the guy who trapped that area in the 50's and he called that colony his dry farmers.
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Re: Beaver under the ice
[Re: Boco]
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01/02/18 10:24 PM
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No two are ever the same. True. Bum freeze up for me this year and when I left camp 2 weeks ago every puddle had overflow. Didn’t think I was going to get out. Gonna be thick ice for beavers this year. All there is to it.
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Re: Beaver under the ice
[Re: Finster]
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01/02/18 10:28 PM
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Boco
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If we don't get a good snow cover soon we are on track for another freezeout like the one in the early 90's here. Yesterday we had a frostquake here,shook all the houses.Frost is going deep this year with the long term frigid temps and no snow to speak of. Last freezeout,after doing an aerial survey one line went from 65 live houses to 8.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Beaver under the ice
[Re: Finster]
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01/02/18 10:33 PM
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Oh Snap
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I don't remember what year the regulations changed but prior to change you couldn't trap closer to a house than 25 feet and could not start till February 1. IMO waiting till February is Like Boco said February and March beaver are the best.
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Re: Beaver under the ice
[Re: Dirt]
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01/03/18 12:12 AM
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Some places you get three layers of ice a few feet thick with water in between.Too messy to set those,leave for seed and go to the next one. Some just thick shell ice and no water-same thing-leave em and go to the next house. White has been searching for that next house for 40 years maybe it will be the next one. LOL !!!!!! God !! I hope not !!!
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