I decided to put a SPYPOINT camera on three beaver carcasses that I dumped yesterday afternoon. Good variety of critters came to visit.



Hawks



Owl



Coyote



Coon



Skunk



Red fox

Everything found these carcasses the first day.

That's why everyone traps beaver and they say humans can eat it also.

If you havent eaten 4 legged bvr you dont know what you are missing. Good in sausage, jerky also

That's a really pretty skunk.

ksnow that's what I saw what a nice skunk. best fur of the group

I just set out a line of beaver carcasses yesterday and today. 35 carcasses that cover aproximately 70 road miles in our coast range. Should feed a few critters before I come back with the traps in a few days.

If you set that much up here you would never be able to keep up with all the skinning,lol.

I only set up the ones that are bobcat or civet hits. They all eventually get et by somethin' or other.

How do you know prior to setting the traps what critters are visiting without camera I know tracks but tracks are not always present

You definitely ain’t knowing in leaves and pine straw.

Cats will cover the bait

^^^90% of the time. Occasionally I run into a cat that doesn't.

I can also usually tell if it's coyote, cougar etc. Cougars just take the whole carcass and it's gone. Coyotes inviscerate a carcass and you find guts dragged off in a direction and the carcass either all consumed or gone. Usually they will have dragged the carcass at least 80-100 feet as it is consumed. Bobcats never drag it that far. Civets eat on the edges of the carcass (usually the armpit or tail areas) and sometimes even burrow under it. Hawks and ravens are usually noisy in the general area as you arrive. I have a harder time telling the difference in grey fox, coon and possum. All look somewhat the same to me.

Bobcats will drag the carcass usually fewer than 15-20 feet and cover it up when done eating. Where they have spent several nights feeding on a carcass you will find several different leaf and twig piles of where the carcass was buried and then pulled out and dragged a few feet away and eaten on and then buried again...and on and on. Usually a bobcat can finish a big carcass in about 5 nights.

No other animal leaves sign like a cat,except a bear and it is irrelevant with a carcass the size of a beaver,since the bear wont leave anything behind.
A trapper knows immediately when a cat lays claim to a beaver carcass.

I'm going to try Beaverpeelers carcass line next season, I saw you post about this before. should work just fine in eastern Oregon. Thanks for sharing .

I never could catch the coyotes that lived in the woods behind my house. No set or bait worked I buried a beaver carcass back there and noticed they were digging for it. I set a few sets around it and by the end I caught 3 trying to dig that beaver up.

I'm not sure how well that will work in the wide open country of eastern Oregon. Ravens and raptors plus coyotes tend to make fast work of it. If you try it you might hide the carcasses under the sagebrush and add some hideous visual attractors that no self righteous coyote could stand to be near. I do know of some guys in eastern Oregon having pretty good luck stuffing carcasses into dry culverts under the two-tracks. Let me know how it works out.

I'm in northeast Oregon at the base of the Mountains. I have some area's in mind in the timber that are more time consuming to trap and I think this method would save some time. The culverts are a good sets here.

Feel free to reach out to me Rhook as you figure it out. I've been doing my bobcat trapping this way for about the last 15-20 years and I love it. You may also want to check out Rickett's "Bobcat Trappers Guide". He outlines the advantages of trapping bobcats this way very effectively.

Thanks I'll let you know. Going to check out the guide. Thanks