I’ve had good results with Spycam and Tactacam, new and old versions, set to the lowest sensitivity. You’ll still wind up with pics and vids of nothing but not as many. It says they need heat and movement to trigger, but they’ve had no problems picking up beaver and rat in the water.

The last 2 years I've used dales long chain/cable options and love it have caught multiple big beaver in the same sets.using earth anchors #3 bridger and 10ft of cable it's light weight and easy easy I make the beaver come to where I want to catch them.

Swamp - I wish I knew. When I was keeping my cameras current, I relied on the testing done by trailcampro. I have not even looked at the website for a long time, but I assume they are still posting tests. The last two I bought were the bushnell Core maybe 2 or 3 years ago because trailcampro said they had among the most sensitive PIR sensors. And I definitely had great luck with them, but I would still check the tests on trailcampro before buying one now because sometimes they change them year to year or another model takes the lead.

Hound, are you anchoring under the trap, or 9' up on dry ground? I don't have too many places where a beaver on a long cable won't be wrapped up in all sorts of brush, trees and vegetation.

Reading along hoping to learn something, skipped over the yankee poster's as they have NO CLUE what this terrain is like in spring/summer nor how sulled up the beaver get when the temp hit's 90, was 92 yesterday where i was! Plus the female's have kits so they don't move very far. Finding a bank den/lodge is a joke now with this jungle green terrain. Best way ive found to locate a dam is look for the biggest pile of briar's grown up somewhere, dam is located down under that mess.

I got a kirk dekalb cage i been goofing around with for a few years now. Farm pond setting for lack of a better word to describe job i started on last week, hole in the dam with it set in it produced 3 beaver in 3 nights. They don't seem too spooked by it BUT none of those were the old female, yesterday mud was shoved in front of the cage so it was pulled and a cdr on a drowner put in it's place. Figure she is the last cause caught a couple in 330's and one in a lured snare set. The lure only came out after 3 days of checking, i usually put in the 'dumb' beaver sets, usual run of the mill 330 or snare in trail/ crawl over / channel sets then after getting what i can get work to more elaborate/lured sets.

Like you wish i could catch them all in one night and be gone but that hardly ever happens! About impossible NOT to spook them this time of year to answer your question.

Im heading back to feral hogs after next week, you can have the hot weather beaver, lol.

3 ft. and 5ft chains work fine, i only go for the back foot so entanglement doesn't matter. Hardly ever have one tangled up for whatever reason.

Reading along hoping to learn something, skipped over the yankee poster's as they have NO CLUE what this terrain is like in spring/summer nor how sulled up the beaver get when the temp hit's 90, was 92 yesterday where i was! Plus the female's have kits so they don't move very far. Finding a bank den/lodge is a joke now with this jungle green terrain. Best way ive found to locate a dam is look for the biggest pile of briar's grown up somewhere, dam is located down under that mess.

I got a kirk dekalb cage i been goofing around with for a few years now. Farm pond setting for lack of a better word to describe job i started on last week, hole in the dam with it set in it produced 3 beaver in 3 nights. They don't seem too spooked by it BUT none of those were the old female, yesterday mud was shoved in front of the cage so it was pulled and a cdr on a drowner put in it's place. Figure she is the last cause caught a couple in 330's and one in a lured snare set. The lure only came out after 3 days of checking, i usually put in the 'dumb' beaver sets, usual run of the mill 330 or snare in trail/ crawl over / channel sets then after getting what i can get work to more elaborate/lured sets.

Like you wish i could catch them all in one night and be gone but that hardly ever happens! About impossible NOT to spook them this time of year to answer your question.

Im heading back to feral hogs after next week, you can have the hot weather beaver, lol.

Id stay off them peg legs all summer, emergency or not! Get healed up for next fall, I hear we are on the verge of the next fur boom and id hate for you to miss it, lol.

Why? They got such wonderful day time tv shows like the View for you to watch, lol.

This video got to me to thinking about this too...

https://youtu.be/qOX9p8pB2VY?si=lQ21f2zcZUOSRSX5

[quote=Shakeyjake]Not saying the cameras you are using would have that problem, but it got me paying close attention to the sensitivity rating on trailcampro. And when I started using the ones they rated as most sensitive that pretty much stopped happening. That was maybe 10 years ago though, and perhaps they have all advanced the sensor technology enough that they would do fairly well, so maybe it is not as big a deal as it was back then.

True. No telling how many I missed. Here’s one from last night, no vid though.