Few pics from a beaver gig I’m doing for a neighbor. The Ol’ 1952 Johnson 3hp is still riding for the brand!

Also, I didn’t have to use my Magnebed on this job, for a set anyway. I did use it to retrieve my one hand setters when I tossed them in the tote and they bounced over the other side of the boat. I couldn’t get them with my hook so I attached the Magnebed to a beaver stick and it grabbed the setters off the bottom in a couple seconds. (Thanks Eric!)



Last pic is Magnebed on a stick used to retrieve setters from bottom.

Nice rig and pics

Need a bigger canoe or less beavers lol great rig

I’ve always thought running a tiller in a canoe would be a royal pain in the back . I did see a guy run a 2”x12” or something similar off to the right off of the transom . Didn’t know if that would be better or not. What are your thoughts?

I try to mount the motor a bit off center to port side. It’s pretty simple to handle a small motor that way. I have done the side mount deal on a double end canoe. It takes away from the sleek line and seemed to always be hanging up on stuff. Might as well just use a narrow Jon boat imo.

Looks like work Trapset!

You can borrow my canoe...if you want to stack em up...21 feet long....

What am I looking at in the last pic with the milk crate?

I could put my little 13’6er inside yours for the narrow spots.

Lol,,,, picturing what that thing would look like after trapper used it for a season

It’s a pic of the Magnebed I used to retrieve my setters from the bottom after they went overboard.

Good Job beaverin'

Here's a pic of my 16 foot old town canvas canoe ..inside the Freighter.

Piggy back it up to camp

I imaging you'd sink that canoe with beaver if you actually knew what you were doing Shawn.

HA! Yeah, I gotta dumb it down when I'm in smaller rigs!

The deep end of that one drowning rod didn't come loose by chance did it?

Nah, I have a bunch I bend like that when the edge is shallow then drops off sharp and fast. I trap a lot of places like that. Over 1/2 my rods are bent. PITA for transport but works real good in those situations. I give them double duty as bottom edge deep water stabilizers.

First time I retrieved something with one was when I was testing prototypes. Took a beav out of a 1216 and the trigger was gone. I raked around for it a while, nothing. Thought to myself, maybe I will come back with a fishing magn… hey wait, I have magnets right here. Somehow that trigger was flung over 6 feet away underwater. Even with the magnets it took a bit to find because I did not expect it be that far away. Since then I have used it to find several overboard items - most recently my pliers in muck so soft I watched them hit bottom and disappear under the goo. It is a nice bonus feature sometimes.

I've lived that BOUNCE factor before with a foothold trap.
Never was able to retrieve mine though