The risers are to control the water level in the ditches. Boards can be put in the risers if higher water is wanted in the ditches.

LOL - This kind of loafing gets tougher every year on this old man.

You should make more posts like this one, Paul.

30 here--temp and windspeed----you hirin??

I'm usually going full tilt to get to all the sites I need to and don't even think about doing this. I did this once before on here. I thought about that last night and though I'd give it another go. I put my camera in the truck last night so I would remember to do it. Otherwise, I'd have forgotten all about doing it.

Here's the one I did about 9 years ago. I didn't realize it was that long ago.
https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthr...age-day-on-my-line-pic-heavy#Post1749150

9 years ago? Dang. Time has sped up.

There's a lot of your father in you Paul. Thanks for sharing. I felt like I was in the passenger seat.

Neat ride along ! I have many similar days in ark/la lots of driving not big catches...12 yrs control work for one company...now just maintenance.

Keep taking the Camera

You da man paul!

a year only takes 3 months now jap
thanks for the ride along pappy

"Keep taking the Camera"
X2
Question for ya Paul how much flooding can them pines take before they die?
Dennis,

Thank you very much for the ride along, appreciate you taking the time and hope you can do so again sometime.

How do you know if there is one beaver left to catch, or that you have them all? My beaver trapping knowledge is preschool level.

Cool. Thanks for taking us along.

Enjoyed the ride from the seat in front of my computer .Now I wish I could go along for real !

It depends on the age it seems like. The younger the trees the quicker they tend to die from their roots being submerged.

Enjoyed it Paul. I'm not sure if I'm to old or the ice is to.thick up here. I sorta miss season long open water trapping.

In that first place, after I caught all the beavers that wanted to be caught easily, I noticed a cutting now and again. So, I figured there was another one there.

When i was at Eielson, I caught beavers in open water in January. Now mind you, the water I caught them in was 72 degrees coming out of the power plant and not a normal stream. Beavers made a dam just downstream of the plant and the water was backing up into the plant. I was asked to catch them, and I did.

Paul,
Those water control structures, they appear to have slots to insert boards to control depth, but do they also put screens or grates in front of them? The shape seems it would catch everything going through them. How large a culvert runs through them?