H2Orat's beav thread got me thinking, so rather than highjack his thread, I started this one. What's everyone's personal heaviest Beaver?

Mine is an even 70 lbs.

The heaviest one I weighed here in NC was 68 pounds, and that's out of many thousands of beavers. I haven't encountered those huge ones like they have up north.

I've caught some bigger than the ones I've weighed but rarely have one that breaks 60.

71 lbs

You could have usurped my thread no issues here. I know there are places with bigger beaver than what I deal with but I know we have some decent sized Columbia/Willamette river beaver. I get quite a few in the 45- 50 range. I haven't done the math yet but this year my avg. should be about 42 ( a guess) ---- recently I have caught a couple of really small ones ( 20 lbs or so) - but that was damage control on a drainage ditch (18" across) - still waiting to catch the adults in that 1/2 mile stretch.

I got bad news for you guys....i've almost caught 20 total
and my biggest is 47 lbs.
It's only a matter of time before i topple some records.

Yeah Dave, I figure my average weight on Willamette river beaver was around 45 lbs this year. Anymore I don't seem to catch anything over 60-61 lbs as I keep them thinned out on my 60 miles of river.

I only caught I think 10-11 kits out of the first 102 beavers I caught this season.

68 lbs.

72 # Maytown Washington, 1977.

But I'm pretty sure I've caught a bigger one but not weighed it. About 10 years ago Etolin Island, Alaska, stretched 84".

Didn’t weigh it but it stretched (fairly loose) 81 inches.

I trapped that gravel pit pond 2 years ago and definetly caught more in number, but not as big ( guess I missed one). I pulled 10 out of a pond 1/4 mile away -- biggest was 47. I think that I have only got 2 kits out of my 25 or so this year. Look out next year -- I am trying to get a boat and will hopefully break 100 next year. That was my goal for this year before I broke my wrist and got covid -- I didn't start until January. Furstroker -- is that a challenge? -- one question for you -- does your water stay water year round? If it doesn't, I'll accept that challenge.

My biggest beaver was 28.7 kg

60 pound beaver is a good size beaver KOSOI. Our beavers must be around the same general size.

I've never had a peanut butter beaver, I've had PB eggs, PB ghosts, PB trees, even PB hearts , Reese's makes them for every occasion it seems,,,, but none of them weighted even a pound.

lol, I did catch one beaver that weighed a shade under 72# on a good digital scale, far bigger than any others by 8-10lbs. Was a lone beaver that lived in a small crick surrounded by corn fields. He was there for years because he didn't cause much damage I think.

I can see we are neck and neck. Are you a "through the ice " trapper? or do you see some open water? I bet that your pelts are a little prettier than mine.

1987
69 3/4

That's just a little over 63 pounds for you Canadians.

Honest question...how different are Russian beavs from
ours? Different subspecies? Numbers? High number pockets
some places, nothing in others? Yearly?
I don't mean to mess up the weight thread, it just piqued
my curiosity and interest.

My largest was an 86 pound female,caught in the fall of the year--so she carried no young
I have also caught several that weighed in the mid 70s.
Tom

Our beaver hunting season is from November 1 to February 28.
I don't think our beavers are any different.