Where I am wolf will fish a trapped beaver out from under the water,maybe a coyote?
A bear would take it away.

You thinking maybe bear?

In NE Pa., I had cats drag them up surprisingly.

Is it possible that eagles got it out of water, quite a few around, turtles, maybe multiple culprits. It was a two day check.

Have had cats do that but if wire is pulled straight I'd say likely Bears although they will usually carry everything off.

I've had bobcats pull beaver out of the water but usually they tried to cover up what they left behind. My guess would be bear. Put up a trail cam and see what shows up.

Rat wagon results for today.

My condolences to you.

Bear I would say did that.

Did you have any beaver over 50 pounds?

Gerrys catch today, got the rat and yesterday’s beaver skun, tomorrow is flesh day.

YJ, seems a bit low. I thought you had nice fur.

Yukon, were those prices for the finished pelts you showed us? Sure would have left a sour taste in my mouth.

Like FHA said-Half.

You must of keep your big beaver, you had more then
you sold in your year end picture.

13 in his picture and 13 sold is what I see
Maybe your not reading his receipt right

Dale- where are you from in WNY? We can’t be too far apart.

49 lbs was my biggest. I'd say I averaged around 35ish lbs this year. I was disappointed at first, but after thinking about it, they were all on the small side. Good thing I'm not in it for the money!

Yea I see now I didn't see the right hand side of the receipt.

Yukon John as long as your ok with the price that's what matters,
I sell all my fur to the country fur buyer, the beaver are bought
by the pound. He's always treated me fair and that's what matters to me.

Chautauqua County,Town of Hanover, SmithsMill. Halfway between Silver Creek and Perrysburg.

Beaver are one of the critters that you just can't afford to ship anymore, so we're stuck with either traveling some distance to a sale or agent or what you did. Like others have said; if you're satisfied that's what counts.

Today is oil sac extraction day and then I'm pretty much done with trapping endeavors for the season. Have about 40 lbs of sacs to work on. Luckily the same person buying the oil also spoke for extracted sacs so that make's it easy for me. Since we're all interested in prices (and I'm not overly private on such matters) I'll let you know that I've been getting $2.50/oz for the oil and $4-$5/lb for the extracted sacs. Those 40 lbs of sacs should yield about 2.5 quarts. It's kind of weird, some sacs are completely dry and others are gushers.