I like your style coondagg. I'm always looking for pinch points like that. Fencing them down with sticks is "money".

Not as impressive as y'alls catches but it's been a good week chasing beaver. The heavy rain and high water sure makes it easy. And got my latest stack all cleaned up and shipped off to glenns ferry.

Hope you do well Musty. I've got a big pile of beaver to skin that I hope to have ready by this coming Saturday. Today's going to be a long one for me.

Nice that sounds like fun! I take it your going to the Prineville sale?

Looking good Musty.

Yep.

Thanks Dale.

Sweet, hope you do good BP. Should be an interesting couple weeks of fur sales. Hopefully the demand for beaver is there.

Well Jerry Taylor stopped by my house this afternoon and just left finally. He is going to the Prineville sale but isn't planning on buying much he says. (But his business is accurately named, so who knows). Anyways you'll probably see him there, but according to him Kortum won't be there, again, take that with a grain of salt. Hope you do well there BP

That isn't what I wanted to hear! I guess that's why we put minimums on our lots.

Nice little pinch point paying off! Good deal. Nothing like that available where I trap. I work toilets primarily when after otter. Always love finding any shortcut crossovers too. But rarely have those.

BP, most of my otter trapping is roadside trapping. Within the ROW mostly but we still are required to get written permission. I trap creeks from 5 foot wide to 100 foot wide and try to find the best pinch points within a reasonable walking distance.

Since I don't cover a lot of water it is pretty rare for me to find a toilet. I set the heck out of pond dam or beaver dam crossovers when I can.

I am considering running a line similar to yours next season. I have heard we will have a 72 hour check law on foothold drowning sets next season, so I plan to capitalize on that.

The river I want to trap is about 500 feet wide and has a section about 9-10 miles long that is pretty easily accessed. I plan to set all the feeder creeks for otter and then make a bunch of castor mounds where I can. I think I could get 3 or 4 dozen traps out in that stretch of river pretty easily.

I'd like to employ something like Swamp Wolf's beaver trays to have 2 traps at each castor mound to take advantage of the extended check

That's awesome. Makes me wish otter season ran later so we could trap them in open water. Beaver runs until the middle or end of May depending where at, but otter closes March 31st (still iced over)

Couple of my otters that I have to tag tomorrow. They're going with me to Prineville Saturday morning. Notice the wide tails that our buyers are wanting in the west.

Those look good BP. Hope you do well at the sale!

I had another one this morning. Didn't even move my guide sticks. I'd say the Duke Supermag did it's job quickly

CD, you running those on your fancy flat-bottom stabilizers? I have a few locations that look similar to yours that I need to try to figure out.

That is a beautiful sight coondagger. Love seeing otters in conibears.

Yeah, about half of them. Those flat bottom stabilizers are the ticket in the rocky creeks. In the creeks with a sandy bottom I run a sort of modified stakealizer type thing modeled after The Hammer's soft bottom stabilizers. Longer notches so I can set Belisle's on the first notch. Two 8" long V shape legs instead of one long stake. The things are rock solid in sand or mud. Just require a good bit of welding to make

I like the KB stabilizers alot, they make it easy to put a 330/280 where you want it

I’m not a big fan of the KB’s. I don’t think they get a trap stabilized near enough. I made up some flat bottom stands after The Hammer’s design and I think they do a great job. Just have to move a couple rocks sometimes to get the creek bottom flat