....be just fine I imagine ...if weren’t for shallow water and highs of 90 lol

And those cottonmouths are just a challenge factor to overcome. Just pay attention and you'll do fine.

I fight cottonmouths just for sport... and eat beaver with no seasoning

....found a sheep killin coyote with his hind legs on the levers of a #2 bridger in my shed last night ...he said he might as well go on and get it over with lol

....I’m kidding (in case some are taking it seriously)

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They are like catching big muskrats, More exercise. I feel bad about killin' them myself, 'cause they're so easy.

That is one thing I do NOT miss about beaver jobs after the first of April. Darn Charlie no shoulders sliding off them steep banks and hitting on your back or just missing you. Any normal human will find they can do things never thought possible, until one is draped around your neck.

Savell,
There are coyotes out there right now reading this getting plumb upset and jealous.
Since you're spending more time in the water now, some of these canines have gotten together and decided by straw vote that select members of their dog clan will commit hari kari and stick their neck in your 330's.
The dog line misses you bad and can't live without ya.
You'll see them dead in your drainage funnel points very soon.

Sheepdog you better fess up and tell Savell that the beaver thinks he caught was a roadkill you planted in his trap....lol

He would have figured it out when he went to make stew Mike !

Best summary on beaver trapping I've ever heard.

Mike

Just think what you could be ifin you drunk real beer!!!

Yep, and I still make it look good.
Does not hold near as much water as that white chapeau as Savell wears though.

Zim

Savell....here’s a Yankee beaver Hut....

Paul. you said a LOT in very few words on those educated beaver. I would have to rank an educated beaver even with or slightly above an educated coyote.

Here's a southern beavah hut in December.....

here's one from up north,date on pic is wrong it was end Oct.

Here's a texas hut, the one time it snowed.

Anyone can catch a beaver, but when you are doing ADC work, catching the last one can be the tricky part.
Young, stupid ones which don't know how to build a dam yet, but figure it out 3 weeks after you pull out, and smart ones which you have provided a masters degree in avoidance are what makes beaver trapping what it is. (You fill in the blank, I have some right now giving me fits.)

A fresh piece of poplar.....stuck in the mud at the waters edge....with a foothold in 4 inches of water in front of it.....I guarantee it !!

I've been using them red and white striped candy canes you get at Christmas. No other trapper does it, or has ever in history tried it. I got the patent on that idea.

Yehaaaw!


Castor goes behind the candycane.