Nice catches BP, I drive a rebar stake down through my beaver carci.

Awesome catches

That's some high percentage trapping, nice work.

So... beaverpeeler uses pealed beavers to bait is predator traps? I should have seen that coming.

nicely done sir

1 per location. Almost 80 miles for that line.

Fantastic catch BP. Thanks for sharing those pictures. The civets are my favorite. I just love the way they look. Each one like a snowflake or fingerprint, completely different. Very cool

Those are some beautiful cats. Thanks for sharing.

WS

Beautiful Cats and civet

Great catches!

Very cool strategy; and success! Good job BP. Yes; some nice bellies considering they are on the coastal side of your lines

How do you leave the carcass and how do you set it up with the traps?

Curious how you set the carcass up. A cubby nearby or sets right on the carcass? Those appear to be nice bellied cates for west oregon

Nice !!

Terrific day, great job! Those beaver carcasses got out to good use.

Is there a market for beaver carcasses there if you were not using them as you do?

Heck of a catch forgot what a gray fox looked like

Good question.

I throw out carcasses wherever I have had luck in the past and areas that look like might get hunted by cats. Brushy creek bottoms and doug fir reprod about 15-20 years old being preferred. Then areas where hopefully birds don't discover them so kind of invisible from the sky. Old skid roads in mixed age fir plantations get a lot of cat activity too.

As most of us know, cats cover a carcass up when they're done eating after finding one, and one adult beaver carcass will usually last for 4-5 days of eating. Which is why I figure I have about 4-5 days before first look over on the carcasses. In Oregon we need to have foothold traps at least 15' away from sight baits. What I used to do was take the carcass away and dig out a dirt hole with a beaver haunch and either set it with a body grip, snare or foothold. I was getting some refusals maybe around 20-30% of the time. SO, I got to where I try to disturb their doings as little as possible and am getting better results.

I finally figured out that a covered up beaver carcass is NOT a sight bait per our regulations and therefore I can create a walk through set next to the carcass. As long as no part of the carcass is visible. That new strategy has been working better. I use a little beaver castor or otter musk to try to make sure they walk through where I want them to.

On the two sets yesterday that did not connect nothing had visited and being that each one was within a half mile of another set that did connect it's possible that one cat had worked both carcasses and I caught it. I'll find out maybe tomorrow if that theory holds.

Today I'm home skinning and such.

Did set up another couple of civet hits yesterday with 120's. On the civets I set the 120 right next to the carcass as the little guys circle carcasses constantly eating on different parts of the carcass. I cover up that side of the carcass with ferns over the trap as they like to be under cover when possible and also to make sure that no birds get caught. And to keep birds off my civet after one gets caught!

It's so brushy here if you tie off a carcuss with cable to a tree/sapling the critters will have trails going and coming through the crap and you can just blind set. Problem here with it is coyotes unless that's what your wanting to catch but they devour a carcuss quickly! BUT is a good way to find out if you have a bobcat in the area, nothing gets covered up you don't have to waste your time trapping that spot.

Good stuff peeler!

I would like to give credit to Rickett's book: "Bobcat Trapper's Guide" in helping me figure that method out. I was already formulating some ideas in my head about how to get rid of my excess carcasses and maybe catch a cat or two when I found Rickett had already written up this particular strategy. It really struck me as being ideal for me and this area.

If you wanna catch more cats it's one of the best, most comprehensive bobcat books I've read.

I have one regular customer that buys a small amount every year. I used to sell from time to time pickup loads to trappers from Idaho. Had some years when I sold a 100 or more to Oregon Fish and Game for bear or fisher/marten studies. One year sold a pick up load to Idaho Fish and Game for a lynx study there.