Nice catch ETex.

Monday morning here. Got three days to skin and put up 34 beavers for this Saturday's fur sale. .... This book written by "Willy Makit" and illustrated by "Betty Wont"

BP, I think Justin Tyme will come through by Saturday

I'm rooting for good ol' Justin!

2 largest needed a different box lol. 45” nose to skirt on those two. Otter mostly out of the way now. On to beaver.

Looking good Mud. I'll bet you get top $$$ for them

Great job on the otter mud. You definitely have the feet-on otter game dialed.

Looking good Mud, let us know how you do.

Not to steal mud’s thunder but I coaxed 45” out of the two otters I did this week too.

Mud, great job!

Sure feels good to get the one that got away!

Nice.

Those coastal otters get dang big don’t they BP? Seems like my river otters here might be real big but the ones I catch here on our coastal bay are almost always giants.

I’m tagged out now and had to pass on this one while setting rat traps.. woulda taken one night..

YJ, you got you a tripod, good deal, we get one once in awhile.

What’s better is when you KNOW it was one lost by you!

This one was, felt sick about it last year, but it's gone now.

We lost one last year, we kept an eye on the house and after a few weeks we seen signs that he made it. We named him slew foot. We tipped our hat to him and left him alone. He has since moved, if we get him we get him but I hope we don’t.

Just be careful you'all don't violate the "beaver with disabilities act".

Tried my hand at trapping beaver this week. Saw a fresh dam on Sunday that wasn’t there 2 days prior on our small creek while checking coyote traps. Ran back to the house about a mile away and grabbed the waders, made up three cable tie offs, 3 old rusty 330’s a partial bottle of Backbreaker that Tocatchapredator sent me in a bundle of lures I bought from him.

Made a castor mound just upstream from the new dam and put in guide sticks. Set the other 2 traps in what I hoped were the runs leading to the back dens.

With the weather reaching into the 70-80 degrees on Monday and the sets visible from the road, I did my first check at 5:00 AM before work. From across the creek I could see the guide sticks were disturbed at the castor mound set. Was very happy to see my first beaver at the end of the cable. 31 lbs. I just quickly reset the trap but didn’t have time to fix the disturbed set.



I put it in the freezer and headed to work. By the time I got home it was after 7:30 PM before I had a chance to get back to remake the set. To my surprise the trap was gone again. I pulled the cable and was thrilled to find a 27 lb otter. Holy Crap I was pumped.




Remade the set with guide sticks and checked the other 2 sets and found my second beaver in a run set. 40 lbs.



Luckily I only had a couple 100 yards back to the Pioneer to carry them. Catching these would have never happened without the knowledge shared on this site. Thank you all.