I feel you Swamp, Got a cortisone shot in my right knee this morning. Trying to avoid surgery for a while. That swamp work is hard on the old knees.

Looks like some turtle chewing on that Otters rear leg.

That's a brown maple leaf stuck to the otters leg. He does have a small bare spot on his tail though.

YT30,
BruceT says he was drugged...so....

Ol' female today was a big girl!

That a railroad in the background in one picture?

i got a big sow like that last week, probably the biggest beaver ive caught in 10 years and crazy thing is i took 18 out of there last spring! Figured just be 2 year olds and such this year but still haven't caught a small beaver in the whole place. Land of the giants i guess.

Yes....

Landowner owns both sides of RxR ROW. Luckily beaver dam on landowners property. I can't get these railroad companies around here to get back with me to issue me written access. At a couple of last years jobs..the beaver dams are on RxR property....they still have their beavers...lol

Nice flattails SW

In addition to the tray on top, I’d have a submerged 330 with a dive stick waiting at the bottom….deadly sets!

There is no firm bottom at that beaver dam's low side. It is mostly pure muck well over knee deep or deeper. My knees can't handle trying to get back up outta that.

Plus, that is where the cottonmouths are...in that low side bramble of sticks, logs, and grass.

Maybe they have a mail in program?

Be careful Swamp, the snakes are out again. Picked up a Garter out of the trail today to relocate him to nicer more tolerant grounds.

In addition to the tray on top, I’d have a submerged 330 with a dive stick waiting at the bottom….deadly sets![/quote]
There is no firm bottom at that beaver dam's low side. It is mostly pure muck well over knee deep or deeper. My knees can't handle trying to get back up outta that.

Plus, that is where the cottonmouths are...in that low side bramble of sticks, logs, and grass.[/quote]

I know what you’re steppin in…. We call that loon poop.

BR,
No loons here. But I can see why it's called that.

That stuff is years of sediment in an already wet bottom area that has remained saturated for years. The water in the foreground will float your hat. Only way to access dam at at each end...in this case from RxR bed.

i know what you talking about. i dont have vertigo but i have bad back, and arthritis in my shoulders.

a year ago i started the gel shots in my knee. after the shots i thought it was going to work but about a month later i was bad again.
had a total knee replacement one year ago February 12. best thing i ever done. will eventually prolly get the other one done.

still kinda uncomfortable to kneel on it but with pads its not too bad.

i dont set as many traps in the ground as i used to. maybe a dozen. most my trapping now is snares and conibears.

Did not realize they were two diffrent people.My mistake

Love all that open water and bare ground.

Landowner owns both sides of RxR ROW. Luckily beaver dam on landowners property. I can't get these railroad companies around here to get back with me to issue me written access. At a couple of last years jobs..the beaver dams are on RxR property....they still have their beavers...lol

Odd company's runnng RR. Got so bad above the house the NTSB told them if something wasn't done they were shutting that line down, all the way across Ms! They hired us begrudgingly and i worked my butt off through 3 county's getting their crap back on high ground. Once they had NTSB off their back they said stop work unless they called, which they never will! So now it's all back flooded from one end to the other. First derailment they will point the finger at us claiming we hired them to keep this from happening.

Beautiful Beaver Location

Without the snakes I mean

Today's haul...


Pic of a small dam on the creek downstream. Captured one of the pictured beavs in a foothold here last night.

I miss killin' coyotes and bcats. Keep gettin'em Savell! Maybe my knees will moderate b4 next December and I can get back to catching predators.

I barely made it today. Had to quit about 2pm. Set 3 new nuisance locations in a couple more counties. Only 3 or 4 traps at each location. Needed to get to 2 more locations, but knees said..NO!!!

Will start fresh and get those set tommorrow.

Gonna have to pull traps a few at a time.....not sure I can pull em all in one day...lol

9 beavers in three days off this one job....6 males/3 females.