They could be a pair with no young,or a pair with several half grown kits from the spring.Or there could be a pair with 2 generations of offspring.possibly 8 or 10 beaver in all(3 different sizes).You should be able to tell by the size of the house,feedbed and level of activity in the area(cutting, canal digging, etc)The longer the colony has been established the more disturbance they will leave on the landscape.

Your lure will work better at a different colony than at the one where the lure originated.But it should still work at that colony.

Ok cool! The house is about 5 feet tall and 8 feet wide. The feed pile is the width of the creek, 12 feet wide or so. I’ll keep picking these things off!

Where I am in Ohio, we have mostly bank dens … and almost every one I have trapped will have generations in the fall and winter. Then mama runs the oldest set off in the spring when she gets ready to deliver again. Most of the places I have trapped around here is farm property and they back up small streams and flood fields. The farmers want them all gone or they will shoot them. So I am usually lucky enough to talk them into waiting until season comes in so the fur is prime. But right now I don't think with what they are paying for the hides, it makes any difference.


Garry-

Was setting up a 330 in 2 feet of water in a small connector stream .....was in the water with my back facing the bigger pond ,making the set and soon as I put I dive pole over it....SPLASH BOOM....the first and last time I Evah got wet from a tail slap...he was close..LOL

Ok that’s good to know! The beavers here are doing the exact same thing, flooding fields. I’ve never put up a beaver before so I don’t even know what a good beaver looks like. This will be my first year putting them up.

LOL! I prob would have died!