$20 average for carcass beaver is good Mad.

So $25 was for a blanket size beaver I suppose?

I would say if they were 45 pounds or more they brought $25. They’re all eyeballed no real rhyme or reason and your mileage may vary.

You did well with $20/average for green whole beaver.

Gerry caught a couple more today. How do you tell how many beaver are in a house.? By the feed pile.?

Here you never can tell for sure because of late fall predation by wolves and cats.
But the general amount of activity-size of house size of feedbed and activity at the dam,size of tracks also how long you have left the area untrapped should give you a good idea.
In winter the size of the chimney on the house,and lack of ice where the entrance runs are are all indicitive of a mature colony of 8-12 beaver.

Not sure how to tell in your area if others trap the same ground.
Also once you start to trap a couple or 3 you will get an idea of the age class of animals you are getting.

Here is a pic I took the other day on my line.I estimate 2 adult beaver and 3 or 4 Young of year at this house.Based on the last time I trapped here,size of house and size of feedbed and how fast it was put in.

Went with my great granddaughter Aalaiya yesterday and made 6 sets. 2 sets at three different spots. We both picked a spot to set at each spot. We ended up with 2 each. I'm blessed to have a 7 year old that wanted to go with Papa. This was her first time beaver trapping


She also brushed every one and helped me put the fans on them

Very nice! I just got back from putting in 4 beaver sets and 20 rat sets. Also added a couple more canine sets while I was out and about. Hoping I have some skinning to do tomorrow.

Dale that’s awesome, my youngest granddaughter and I are real close.
Tony good luck.

I got to go on the line with Gerry today, sure was nice, he set a new pond today, four traps, maybe some beaver tomorrow.

Miss Aalaiya and I got two more this morning. That gave us 6 for our weekend trapping adventure. She can't wait to do it again with Papa. I'll wait till she can spend another weekend with us and go set a few again.
This makes one of my most enjoyable weekends in a long long time

That’s what life is about Dale, not green paper.




We got skunked today, this new pond is what I call a , spready outey pond, no real concentrated activity, no well defined crossover, flooded timber, it’s just spread out.

Today’s catch, this beaver read the book.

Got an extra large one today

Today’s catch from the spready outtey pond, otter from yesterday.

Gerry found a beaver at a new pond that someone had shot, we used it, and we caught another one at spready outtey pond.

Pat looks like Gerry is keeping you busy. I’ve caught 16 so far, but pulled my traps now until the deer season ends. Killed a good 10 pt early mzloader season now looking for mr big. Osceola woods are pretty dead now , Bucks in the tending stage of the rut, about middle of next week the action should pick up until the end of season. Hoping for a little tracking snow, but you know Tug Hill it comes in feet not inches, so I have to be carful what I wish for. 😆

So somehow my trap ring and my trap lever are attached to my snap ring and I made a catch.I don’t know if this is even possible or if someone’s messin with me.

Wayne, he keeps me going for sure, we’ve been lucky with not much snow so far.

Mad, we caught a beaver that we named Einstein, looks like he had relatives. Lol

Today’s catch, Gerry interrupted a hungry mink, caught him in the act.