Comstock cage set tomorrow........

cool. do they eat it or just build dam, or both, have any pic of dam??

A very common occurrence around here this time of year.

beaver always find the corn if its on a creek or river bank

Both.

Sometimes they make dams purely out of stalks. Those don't hold up well from what I've seen.

Awesome.Heard about it but never seen it.

Bruce they often cut a perfect circle. 12-15 feet across. It's amazing how many landowners think that circle with a slide down to the water is deer or coons. Most dens here are bank dens. Often with some sticks and mud piled up on a vent hole. Corn stalks are pretty common for this. I have seen stalks in a dam but it looks like kind of an after thought piled on the sticks rock and mud that makes up the real dam.

my buddy lives on 14 mile creek and had 3 to 5 acres of corn for deer planted in his bottom field. it looked like you could walk across the creek on the corn stocks. I took out 7 beaver very quickly for him that year.

Is corn enough to keep their teeth down or are they the big ole buggers on their last kick at the cat?

they were still hiting his trees on the creek as well. what I caught was the typical family unit and an extra large male I assume was wondering through.

Theres usually enough trees around the creeks and rivers here for them to maintain teeth. Also remember they dont feed off trees all year long. At least not around here.

Have seen this in Ohio, Iowa (on a hunting trip) and in Arkansas. Saw where they came out of the Arkansas river, walked about 50 yards to the levy, up and over the levy and into a corn field at the foot of the levy. Took quite a risk with all the predators in that state.

Beaver love corn and soybeans too. They will keep cutting the beans after they are dry.

One of the properties I trap had a wet, boggy area close to a fairly large creek. One dry summer, it dried up enough for the owner to get it turned into a 4 acre waterfowl impoundment complete with berms and water control device. This is on the upstream side of about 10 acres of beaver swamp. He planted corn in the impoundment and when it started setting ears, the beaver flocked to it and started plugging up the pipe. I have thinned them out several times and no more corn has been planted there but they will still try to plug the pipe on occasion so I have to take a few more out. It is one of those situations where there is no such thing as catching them all. With the creek and big swamp, the fill back in quick.

I have also trapped them out of a farm pond where forage soybeans were planted for the deer. The beans were mowed in a perfect semicircle from the beaver pull out. And they were still cutting the dried beans in February. I took beaver and muskrats out of that pond.

Stopping at bridges and checking creeks for corn stalks floating around/stuck in the tangles is a good way to road-scout for beavers this time of year.

I had a similar nuisance job where the beaver were raiding a farmer's corn field. I couldn't believe it until I actually was on the scene and saw it. They had a food pile with willows and corn shocks.

Well if you set A Comeunstuck cage good luck

Luck…? It is a no brainer with a quality trap

The right cage trap and the right circumstances work very well on beaver in areas where a body grip would not be a legal set and foot holds would not work or be legal either. The right tool for the job!

They eat the corn and add to dams in wa on small ditches
This is on a wide river no dams.. if you are fishing (silver and kings are in now) the stocks float by regularly

Well around here I am used to seeing them take the closest stalk after stalk and the ground is polished smooth by their tails dragging( I assume). Just absolutely smooth ground to the closest stalk, and the dam and hut or bank den smothered in stalks. Muskrats do the same thing in the onion fields, they really like onions.......jk