Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. Very straightforward, well-explained and informational. Just curious, do you prefer snares to 330 conibears? And if so, what are the advantages and disadvantages to using both? Thanks again.

It can be a very productive method for harvesting beaver, I never pass up an easy run I will stick in a 330 trap but if I can find enough water snares poles work great this time of year.
Understand that we have roughly 2 feet of ice and the runs are buried in snow so setting snare poles is fast.

Great video Jim, that's a spring tonic to get outside when the Geese begin flying and water starts moving!! Thanks for this one!

What a very informative video.It's nice to watch a Beaver Trapping Master like you. Thanks for sharing!

I quit running a bait pole down to the bottom as the beaver usually chewed it off where the snares aren't. the ice around here is 10-24 in. thick and they usually cut the bait off up in the hole. Don't they do that where you are. Gibb?
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Generally they try and chew it off near the top close to the ice. I always hang two snares right at ice level. One of the reason I wait till March is to stop them from freezing to the ice. If I do this in Jan/Feb the beaver sometimes freeze to the ice and than it is a lot more work. In March I have to worry more about the poles freezing in.

Jim,If your worried about the poles not freezing in enough before a catch,take a couple ice blocks that you cut from the hole and put one on each end of your crosser/safety pole.

Good video Jim. Have a few areas that this would work well in. Wouldn't have to have such a heavy pack to get in there with. Thanks a lot!

I find the problem is coming out with a large pack full of beaver the killer. LOL

Gibb, large pack for the sled?

Hint for anyone new to beaver. Easy in, bad words out...