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330s at castor mounds #6165482
02/21/18 06:07 PM
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How do you guys do it? Does it seem like more of an obstruction to them? Keep in mind that our 330s must be completely submerged


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165493
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Well If that's the case your kind of hamstrung.


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165533
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Use a snare they don’t have to be submerged.


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165544
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All you need is 11" of water. Old run coming into creek or small feeder that is eroded out. Put a dive stick in with a stick dipped in castor about 5' past the trap. No mound necessary for them to investigate.

Not a classic mound set but effective.


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165599
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What I do in Ohio if I can find a natural spot is to find a path through the reeds/cattails deep enough for a 330 and smear some castor on a stick or tree on the upstream/upwind side. Or find a tree or brush that is tight to the bank but with enough room for the 330 and smear castor on the trees.

Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165602
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What gray dog said


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165630
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Our law is the same here, but again with what gray dog said, sink your trap off a slide or a run and put a dive stick over top your 330 and castor on a stick. Plenty of great youtube vids on it.

Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165694
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To submerg those 330's....take your boot and go back and forth and make a trench ....deep enough to make your State happy.


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165696
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I’ve got some number 3 off set double longs that I could use but have no experience with drowners. How far back and offset should the trap be for a back foot catch? How long should my stake on the bank be? Thanks


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165702
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Dont try for back foots with 3 longs.

Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165706
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1/2 or 3/4 submerged would be just as easy and effective. I have had good luck on a bit deeper beaver runs. Put castor at the back and dive sticks over the 330

Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: SNIPERBBB] #6165714
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Originally Posted By: SNIPERBBB
Dont try for back foots with 3 longs.

I know they would be a little small, but I’m assuming the offset would be too big for a front foot catch


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165717
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This set caught 2 in 2 days,,the water unexpectedly rose 3" by the next day and it worked fine, again
Blend it in a bit, naturally, which also acts as guiding.
I have set this completely submerged or even 3/4 out
I dribbled a lil castorium on beige stick.



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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165719
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I would have preferred a foothold in the above situation BUT, the water was only 6" deep for over 10' away from shoreline.

And knowing from experience, those lil natural coves is a natural place they easily lure into.


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6165736
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Any time you try and force a beaver to dive under something your going to miss some beaver. Now If you could find the channels or a cross over on a dam that's where I would concentrate my efforts. Or look for drowning water and use a foot hold.
Or like some one said use a snare If legal.


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6167999
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It is actually very easy to catch a beaver at the right caster mound set with a submerged #330. First off, it has to be fairly easy to block down with sticks. However, a much better set with a submerged #330 is to find or create some sort of obstacle like an island, rock, tree, or even a tall stake, anything to create a small passage between the obstacle and the bank for the #330 to be set and blocked down if needed. Use a secure dive pole with this set. Smear some castor lure on a dry stake or branch about three feet above the waterline. The beaver will swim around all night trying to find the source of the lure. He will be waiting for you upon your return.

Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6168031
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Mound at deadwood vertex, submerge 330 in between with dive stick.

Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6168068
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I use the same set as Traprjohn.... but put my stink stick about 8 inches behind the trap in the water...with only 4 inches of the stick above the water....with lure on it.....a deadly set....and you can pop it in anywhere ,with out wasting time looking for channels and bank dens...use the power of lure to your advantage !


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....and remember AVE, lure does best when normal prevailing breezes carry odors across the waterway.


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6168175
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And you can stick a white plastic coffee lid on your stink stick for eye appeal too


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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6168192
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I have caught maybe 60 beaver in close to 20 years in spring only with submerged 330 an caster set, I used use it only then an only beaver open, to much work with digging out trench in bank deep enough an far enough back an lot blocking, sometimes it works an sometimes not at all, if works it usually does right away an most I caught is 3 beavers in set an then nothing, I have spent a hour making set an really not interested in making very few of these again as way to time consuming an to much work, bank caves in an keep digging out sand an more blocking, remake Is hard, have caught a few by tail an feet climbing in it , I wish are laws were half submerged 330s, if they were I would make alot these sets in spring but have be complely sumberged an I don't plan on making many lured 330 sets again, I rember catching Some like posted before between a rock an bank, Bank an island a few foot wide or 1 time a few sticks an vertical bank, u dont alwaysalways find these spots though, snares or live caught have be checked in morning unless can make drowning snare set, it dont work for me like some said to just walk back from mound an lure on bank an set when deep enough an block off with sticks, beaver goes around up on bank before dives though where try force beaver an same with trench on bank set I talking off, it may work better with area with high beaver population

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Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Ave] #6168216
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More than 60 beavers in going on 20 years. 1 spring was 20 something an some springs it was 10 or 12, 15 beaver in 330 lured set, other springs 5 or 6 only

Re: 330s at castor mounds [Re: Nessmuck] #6168263
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Good advice.

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Any time you try and force a beaver to dive under something your going to miss some beaver. Now If you could find the channels or a cross over on a dam that's where I would concentrate my efforts. Or look for drowning water and use a foot hold.
Or like some one said use a snare If legal.

FROM THE BEAV. THAT IS THE BEST ADVICE IN MY OPINION,


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