Most likely being I only mentioned half of the beaver regs haha. Trap tag must be above water, not aloud to set within 15’ of hut or dam, not aloud to disturb dam or hut, traps to be checked every 36 hrs, during otter season wmus with otter season the amount of traps aloud to be set is even less than 10 are just a few others haha if you traveled to the different limit amounts aloud in wmus your grand total of beaver aloud is 125.

Dang, they must really like beavers in PA. We have entirely too many of them I don't think they get targeted a whole lot, most guys are trapping "better" fur bearers like marten, wolves, and wolverine. If I'm making water sets in an area, I'm generally the only one doing so. You can also drive a truck on most of our lakes right now, so there is a certain amount of work involved.

Maine is now overpopulated with beaver.

All 6 dams broke today. Will monitor for any repairs

Before pic at bottom dam



After 20 minutes of draining

You will see beaver tracks in that mud if any are left before you see any other activity like rebuilding the dam.
Sometimes they leave for a while after a breach like that then return later.
I always look for their tracks in the mud at the house after I lower water to natural flow at a nuisance spot.Lots of times the tracks will give you an idea if they went upstream or downstream,then you can set accordingly to finish the job.
You can find some deadly blind setting locations after dropping the water to natural flow.

Finally connected, been a long few days...2 different ponds that I'm trying to clean up from last year. Started with blind set 330s, but the old tried and true Bridger 5s on drowners were the ticket! Good feeling! The rat is from 1 of the ponds...found a bank den, and set a Bridger 330 on it, caught a rat everyday so far (at least I wasn't skunked the whole time)!

Give em heck coondagger2! You should see some sign if they're still there.

Nice lookin' flat tails there Yukon.

Went on a little walkabout now that things are drained. Creek has came down over 5 feet. Pretty crazy the amount of water they had in here

Today's view at the bottom dam



Creek restored to natural size



Den entrances and some bank dens easily visible now




Funny enough, I had a fully submerged 330 set here between these two grass clumps in this run where that diagonal stick is at. Now that spot is about 4 feet above the elevation of water. Gives a good idea of how much it has went down

Those beaver can truly change a landscape can't they?

Those are some good pictures. Really cool what it looks like under the water line.

Good job on the beaver Yukon John. They look like some nice big ones

Hows water levels treating you Musty? I've been unable to trap since before Christmas with all the fronts coming in. It looks like I'll finally get falling water levels in a day or two that I can actually get out and trap on.

The yellow line is flood stage/ bankful:

Nice catches

Wyatt Erpp brought me down a couple large pelts to keep me from getting rusty .

Looking good Newfox. Good thing you got Wyatt around to keep you sharp.

Good job

Wow, 40,000 CFS is a lot of water! Next week sure looks nice though. Hope you get out and do some damage.

Have you had much luck on otter this year?

But yeah its been wet up here too. Most creeks and river systems are flooded and out of the question for trapping. The high water seems to push some beaver out of the ditches and up into the ponds that I trap so it has been pretty consistent up there.




Got my little pile of beaver sorted and shipped out for the Glenns Ferry sale though lol

Good for Wyatt.
I miss fleshing/putting up beaver.
Looking good newfox

Nice looking pile of beaver Musty. Hope you do good. And nope, not caught an otter yet. I've only had 5 checks in December so far. Got 40 beaver put up and would sure like to have another 40 or more to take to Glenn's Ferry in two weeks.

Newfox,not doing any trapping this year?