Mike I watched your video and you CHEAT! A sharp knife? That is cheating.

Thanks for the video Mike.

Never heard of this
Plenty of beaver to go around up here, come on up.
Heck the last few years hardly anyone including myself has been trapping.

Best is Oregon but don't bother, I got the state covered!

Oh yeah. Everything piled up just out of sight on the first culvert where he went in. Note on traps clearly explaining the consequences of putting the traps back out. Palisade. Out in the tamarack swamps. Happened to a few others too. Police didn't want to deal with it.

Definitely a lot of beaver in Michigan. The Upper Peninsula is loaded with them.

If the opportunity ever came that we could use conventional methods of harvest i could without a doubt catch between 500 and 1000 beaver and easily over 100 otter her in the Commonweath, it would take the entire 5 month season and a lot of work but they are here!

Your state deserves lots of beaver.

hey boss there a lot more beaver up here now than went you were here in the 70s , also a lot less trappers , just saying , probably still more beaver down there ,

I'll bet that's true. Plenty of habitat for them up there. I was there from 77-83.

Can anyone tell me "of those states" where there are a lot of beaver, and-also where those states also border the ocean...

Are the surplus of beaver mostly near the coasts or not?

Example: ME, NC, MD, VA, MI (near the big water), etc.

That's called wishful thinking......in that State

Oregon borders the ocean and our coastal streams have a fair amount of beaver, but the Willamette river that runs through the interior western valley has probably more beaver per river mile because of superior habitat (lots of willow and cottonwood). Eastern Oregon has some beaver but desert is the dominant ecosystem. Our harvest has been dropping from around 10-12,000 30-40 years ago to barely over 1000 the last year or two.

Mike is being modest here since he does not tell of all the beaver he and his partner catch in a season. The year before last when we had decent conditions, he and his partner caught over 500 through the ice. This is a photo from several years ago with what I believe was taken of a one check catch. The work had just begun for them that day.



Here is another picture of their mixed bag to show the work ethic that they have. It is obvious that there have to be a lot of beaver in MN in order to accomplish these sort of numbers.

NOT true. The 2 states have differing criteria for determining what a lake is. If you use Minnesota's standard then Wisconsin isn't even in the game. If you use Wisconsin's criteria, well you really can't compete. Here is a good read on this subject. https://www.politifact.com/factchec...o-has-more-lakes-minnesota-or-wisconsin/