The snow is just melting off the backroads and the nuisance calls have started already.Season ended yesterday and the calls started today,lol.
Got called out to 4 locations on the one road for starters.
I just took 9 beaver out a week ago during the fur season in this area..I guess they want any that are left removed.






Frost heaved the culvert up at one spot and the run off got under it and is flipping it.

I would take my fishing tackle while setting up that spot.

Know anyone how can get the job done?

Go get em


Hard to imagine snow just now melting. Approaching 90 degree Fahrenheit these days here! Beavers will be swimming topless here in about a month and a half.

It was 70f for a few days,but we had about 10 feet of snowfall this winter,so even when its warm it takes a long time for it to all go.
There will still be pockets of snow in low shaded areas in the bush in June.

Got 3 places set up for nuisance beaver.....Beavah Bucks Baby !!!!

83 here on Sunday and snow level down to 5000 foot tonight 2 feet plus in the mountains. Heck its May

Elevation here is about 750 ft.

You have a fun life Boco. Never a dull moment in your neck of the woods.

Boco is that pipe a frost heave?

Someone put a tv antenna on this beaver house. I thought funny....

https://www.trappersreport.com/story/Beavers-with-TV-Antennas-(joke,-true)

That's hilarious!

Marathon,it started off as a frost heave,that allowed the water to get under the pipe when the frost went out.I have seen that often.The water will eventually flip the pipe once it starts to go if there is enough pressure.Or it will wash both sides of the pipe.

ny,the beavers are watching the Stanley cup playoffs.

Ratbrain--My wife and I drove by that house last week as we were out and about. That is not Photshopped. In even better news, our county people got to me this week and I now have three nuisance jobs to get on this weekend. It is starting out to be a good summer.

Why is it these people call after the close of the season ?

[quote=Boco]Marathon,it started off as a frost heave,that allowed the water to get under the pipe when the frost went out.I have seen that often.The water will eventually flip the pipe once it starts to go if there is enough pressure.Or it will wash both sides of the pipe.
I have seen it wash out both sides a few times before.usually on a pipe that has been installed the previous year.

Fisherman,they call after the season because before the season ends they have to call MNR who will contact the trapper who owns the line to take care of the problem.
After the season ends the nuisance beaver program kicks in and all calls to the MNR concerning nuisance beaver are directed to the nuisance beaver program co Ordinator.

I just hate killing lactating females.Each to their own, but down here I have stopped doing nuisance beaver jobs in the spring.

I dont like it either,but when they are causing public safety problems they gotta go.And with some trappers cutting back on harvesting because of lower prices it provides needed management of the resource,to some extent.

You guys need more trappers up there.

Lots of trappers but the country is big.
Around 280 trappers in my area,Cochrane to Hearst..

I feel the same as you Fisherman. We have a 5 month open season here (Nov.-Mar.)

I would sooner take out the pregnant females in May than take them in June,and then have to catch the young..

I do not have a problem trapping pregnant beaver. We have caught them in late March that were close to giving birth.

Nailed 3 today.
The Road crew pulled up the washed culvert,and will re-install it when the water goes down.

I understand that trapping nuisance beaver is necessary, do it myself. I just hate catching a nursing female that the kits in the lodge will die.

Read what Boco said above my previous post.

Natures Nachos, somethig will get in there and Eat them. Something dies, something eats.

The kits wont stay in the lodge too long after birth.They are very well developed at birth and the mother takes them out of the lodge after a few days.Once they are out they are very easy to catch at the spot where you caught the mother.They cannot get back into the lodge without the mother because they are too buoyant.Lots of times when I have caught the mother at the dam the little ones are hiding in the sticks at the lower side of the dam.
If you cant find them,you can use the urine from the mother at the site where you caught her and the young can be caught.

That is a pic of two kits killed in a 330 where the mother was caught the night before using urine.

Thanks for that valuable information Boco.

Boco.....you whizz on your sets ? I’ll have to try that.......lol

Around here, just below the Canadian border, beaver are moving around at about the time season closes, on the 15th of May. I took care of several spots in the week before season closed.

Now that season is over with, people are just noticing water levels rising and a few beaver have dispersed to places that will be a problem.

Just cleared a pond...only 4.....375.00.....Beaver Bucks !!

Folks wont pay that here. Usually they manage to kill, cripple, maim, and make wary them beaver don't to just the last one...then they call me and ask me to wipe them out, and they think I enjoy that trapping opportunity, so I should do it for free.

That's how a Minnesotan thinks.

And if you don't do it some other guy will try. Everybody in MN has had some water trapping experience. Most people don't know to hire a pro like boco is the most cost effective way.

I’ve heard that from a Minnesotan before. “You get the hide, why would you charge?”

Lol, $100 equipment, $60/hour labor (labour for Boco), $.54 per mile to and from for however many days projected for job. That is usually what I would say, if I charged, but I don’t have my NWCO permit yet. So, I do it for hunting and trapping property.

Should charge a convenience fee if the customer had someone else try it.

I have never done beaver removal for a private individual.All our contracts are with the dept of highways,local roads boards,logging companies,municipalities,hydro electric company,etc.

For us that is through one of the two folks who have the contract with the state to do the nuisance work, or the feds.

I’ve trapped beaver for 150.00 Bottle of Scotch before...lol

Sounds reasonable.


But, I’ve also trapped for “some beaver” before, and should’ve asked for Scotch.

Then you got drunk and the production dropped.

Ya gotta get them drinkin Boco, that’s the trick..

I don't do much nuisance work unless it is for the county, and it's less than 20 beaver per year usually. I try to hammer the beaver in season, and catch all the travelers I can on my regurlar line.

I also trap any potential nuisance beaver spots on my trapground in spring after ice out.Invariably more move in though sometime after the season closes.
The spot I'm working right now,I took 9 out the week before the season ended,and now 3 more a few days later on a nuisance contract.It should save the local road board a few hundred dollars just the same.
Got another call today from the power company for two spots up north on the Dam access road.

A few more pics from the nuisance beaver line.

Way to get after em Boco.

Nice. I got another call today myself. Gotta wait for permitting yet. The mother colony is on private land but keeps kicking out 2 year olds.

Any problems on private land here the complainant (dept of highways for example) has to get written permission from the owner for the trapper to go on the private land to trap the nuisance beaver.If the complainant does not submit a copy of the written permission to the trapper,a contract will not be written.
Some people try to prevent trappers from trapping the nuisance beaver on private land.But if it is a threat to the hwy,RR,or other company roadway,it will be made known to the owner that they will be liable for any damage to infrastructure or death or injury to the public if they do not remove the beavers themselves.
At that point it becomes a non issue.
I don't like going on private land to trap nuisance beaver but I will.I always make sure that they know when I start and finish and that deadly traps are being used,and to keep kids and pets tied up.

I could have trapped this private land but it was some distance out of my trapline loop. So is the problem.