Average of $33.03 on my beaver last year at Montana Trapper's fur sale.

I had a batch of 79 (all XL and bigger) that brought $41 avg las year in Glenn's Ferry January sale.

Mike, I’m busy with work this winter. I have some to catch maybe this spring for a couple hunting clubs that I’ve been trapping for a number of years. We’ll see how much time I have.? Sure was nice putting up a couple today. I sure do enjoy all the photos and beaver talk on this thread.

Put 3 beavs on boards (one is on the back side of the bigger one), and built a muskrat stretcher (the one on the bottom).

Looking good there on the put ups Yukon! All my boards dry two at a time.

Couple more at a new location today. Pretty neat old silo. This is right behind my good friends house. He and his wife are expecting their first child in April. I'm going to have some of these beaver tanned and have a baby blanket made out of them for their son.




Also had a little wader mishap...

Those beaver look just like mine Coondagger.

Nice looking beaver and oops on the waders

That should be a fantastic blanket! Your troubles are noted, just not as important as new life!

Couple more this morning. Got some more traps to check over lunch break

Funny story on one of these beaver. There is an awesome otter trail at the dam crossover in this small creek. I mean the right side of the dam is worn down to bare dirt from how much it is being traveled. I set a 330 at the top of this trail about 2/3 submerged and on the first night it was fired with nothing in it but a beaver front foot. My best guess is a beaver came to the trap and wasn't sure so he stuck his front hand through, and the Belisle held it. We all know how fragile beaver front feet can be so it didn't look like there was too much of a struggle. No catch circle, just a foot in the trap. I was sick that I had educated one and knew he/she would be hard to catch.

I put in a castor mound with a foothold right on a feed bed and had that beaver by the back foot this morning. Sometimes a plan comes together.

CD, good you caught em.
YJ, couple nice big beaver on the boards. I think mine look better after they have dried a couple days.

They always look pretty good to me NF! You get them way cleaner than I do.

I finally got back out there as for the first time since before Christmas the rivers will start to come back down. It was mostly way too much water to find any places to set yesterday but did manage to get 12 sets in. Took my stepson on the line. It's the first time he's been out in the boat with me....he had a blast. He's talking about learning to trap himself.

We picked up seven nice beaver and a male otter today.

Decided to get started on some beaver that I had frozen.
and i need to get some off the boards.
Just finished this tonight there is another on the back that
I finished last night.



Both of these boards have 2 beaver on them they've been
boarded for several weeks.

Hard for me to see them, must have had some condensation on your lens?

Nice job bowhunterks, any particular reason you leave them boarded so long?

Beaverpeeler, lens on my phone camera is broke I need
I need to get a new phone.

Good. Then I don't have cataracts after all!

BHKS, I thought I had too much Sheetrock dust on my glasses. Lol

Well, my day got cut short. After my second set was checked went to start the outboard and discovered that the gear linkage had come apart leaving it in forward gear. Couple of miles paddling downstream to the landing and got the motor at the Suzuki repair shop now

Update: Just got a call. Boat ready to go. $191 OUCH! A nut came loose on the linkage and was replaced. One hour shop time.