Re: Trouble trapping beaver in small lake.
[Re: bobcat_trapper]
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12/16/19 05:08 PM
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Good advice^^^^ Make the dam hole bigger and make two of them. Snare between the holes. Sometimes you can catch them going from one hole to next. Try just a mound of mud, no castor Sometimes just sac oil works
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Re: Trouble trapping beaver in small lake.
[Re: 52Carl]
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12/17/19 09:49 AM
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Accidentally lean too hard on your walking stick while you are on top of the den. They do not like sunlight coming into the living room and will bring mud to patch it ASAP without fail. I prefer snares for this . Volley ball size, 1 inch off of the ground. Make sure there is some castor on the stick going into the lodge........Beavers will be in and out looking for the intruder.
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Re: Trouble trapping beaver in small lake.
[Re: bobcat_trapper]
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12/17/19 10:00 AM
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A old timer once told me the fastest way to catch a beaver is put snares in front of the entrances then take a spud bar and shove it down into the den and wiggle it around to spook them out I've never tried it but have considered it a time or two he said you better really be hanging onto the snare because they hit them hard and put up quite the fight.
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Re: Trouble trapping beaver in small lake.
[Re: Allan Minear]
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12/17/19 10:02 AM
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A old timer once told me the fastest way to catch a beaver is put snares in front of the entrances then take a spud bar and shove it down into the den and wiggle it around to spook them out I've never tried it but have considered it a time or two he said you better really be hanging onto the snare because they hit them hard and put up quite the fight. Holding onto the snare? there's a rodeo I could do without.
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Re: Trouble trapping beaver in small lake.
[Re: bobcat_trapper]
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12/17/19 08:29 PM
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No sprung traps for me. But the owner did. I think that's why there trap shy. Yes on lure Backbreaker, build a dam ,timber.
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Re: Trouble trapping beaver in small lake.
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12/17/19 09:11 PM
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Check on regulations. If you can find some pull outs away from lodge, take a hoe and get rid of all the debris and make a muddy run up to the bank. Now continue to pull mud up a foot or so up on the bank. Set a 330 out in the water in front of the mound about 25% under water. Like I said, check regs. Now with cattails, pond weeds, etc., do a good job of boxing up and blending in that 330. Trap must be stabilized and tied off securely with t-bar. Beaver will not only smell fresh mud, he will be drawn to the opening in 330. Use wide subtle guides (2). Use Dobbins Woodchipper (food) on chewed/plain sticks and stick in mud. Make sure he can see all the way through that boxed in conibear. Get ready.
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Re: Trouble trapping beaver in small lake.
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12/18/19 01:31 PM
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I had problems with smart beavers in the past. Where they go up the bank to get some cuttings ,set a foothold in the water where they go up.where they go to on the bank make like a V the wide part is face the water and the close part on shore and not to close together on the shore. Just set the foothold in the wide part . but fix it that they still see it open on the bank but narrow down .use no lure or anything. I got them that way. I had one this season that was on a river and must of seen the mate caught in a snare and it would take them down and kept it up . What I did is took a blood up coyote foothold trap that is 4x4 and set it that is about 12" away from where it gose up the bank .and stake it with a (2) 4' of 1/2" rebar and put it in the deep part away from shore that way it will not be able to get on shore to dry off. and took to sticks like I stated in a V like and got it the next day after the set day for it .Just a idea .
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