I Love letting older Traps come out to Play...

A set that's a little labor intensive - but Fun. Vertical Dead pole- two dead pieces lashed and frapped with wire to make two shelves for 2 - 14's Green popple bait wired above . Put in the ice hole - Add a cross pole above ice and wait.
This one hit the set soon after putting it in because it broke the main Vertically pole and took it down under. Good thing I cable above Ice & down to both 14 jump Traps.



Barrett with ole' chisel tooth -
* L . Pavek


A Great Evening all in all.

Great job!

Way to go old style,330.

Not to steal away from your thread but I've been trying to trap under ice beaver for a week or so now and haven't caught anything. I'm using some baited 330's, I can't find the runs. What would you recommend I go to?

WTG, let see a pic, of that set?

I'll build another pole today

I'm trying to show Barrett different sets that can be put together out on the line with wire .

I'll build a new pole because the thrashing beaver trashed the one vertical it was caught on.

Very cool, no ice here to play with.

Thanks Boco

Nice to see the old traps getting some exercise. Looks like a great time for you and the young man.

Hard to tell who’s having more fun- just great to see and Barrett is a lucky kid.

Great!

(And I thought the thread was going be another illegals thread)!

The new built set is shorter because of where it's going in the creek between dam and bank hole lodge.

*** I changed out the old j hook and original chain & used mb crunchproof swivels ...Very important to hook traps under ice up to a main cable or good wire running up to a X cross stickabove ice.also bot traps are tagged but also a tag above ice.

It's Nostalgic

I still use all 14’s for beaver most of mine are switched over to the paws I trip pans

i have those pans^^^ just can't bring myself to mod them.
the chain was hard enough

Hard to think that was the go-to beaver trap before 330's hit the mark

is it just the light or is that a noir beaver
(noir is used to get around profanity filter)

It's sure fun to experiment with those old sets. When I was a kid, that's the only way we trapped beaver under the ice. There was a lot of trial and error going on back then with me.
I made a few poles for the #4 and 14 jumps but have not used them for a long time. They still sit in a corner in my garage. Maybe someday...

In the Daylight today I see it's Very Dark...yes ...Zero red or brown tint

MnMan I only have 11 of the 14s and 1 #4