Only 1 day the water dropped 4 inches. I run 8- 10 foot of 1/8 cable with a birkshire soft ground anchor straight to the stock chain traps vary from bridger 3's to mb750s and no bs beaver extreme. Had 2 dozen 330s but I do better with the leg holds. The lodge entrances were deep we trapped mostly beaver slides with a touch of castor on them. I did manage to snare a couple out in wide open water drove big willows down into the mud and hung snares off of them.

You had it good for water levels. In the next three days our big river will be going up 4 feet. When that's not happening it's normally dropping a foot a night. Our regs make us have a portion of the 330 in the water, so every set has to be remade usually every check.

I find myself fooling with most of the sets especially when it's windy. The sand silts in under the pan.

'Peeler, does a portion of the trap extension attachment count for that rule?

A portion of the trap itself (body gripper) must be submerged.

I sometime have the silt issue. Maybe a wad of cotton under the pan would help?

Great Picture!!!

Good thinking!

Looks like a fantastic trip…..except for all that skinning. 😉

This looks like a great time, thanks for sharing!

Only a trapper could look at all that wet fur, carcasses, traps, gear and tired as H and say man was this GREAT!!

Bryce

did you skin or sell whole, ??

Yeah I'm curious if your gna finish the pelts or not

I sold alot of them on the carcass I'm putting up the big ones and the otters. As much as I would like to do them all I don't have the facilities or boards/ hoops to make that happen.