How do you guys combat flood water rising 1 or 2 feet then dropping over night trapping beaver with footholds? I was thinking maybe a float , but what do you guys do?


If anyone has experience with this please comment.

Make a castor mound higher on bank, front foot catchem.
#3 size trap long chain so there up on land.

It's a pain, break dam if there's one helps to

1-2 feet is child's play here.

I deal in 6-10 feet and worse lol. I just started snaring the top of the banks on private ground here.

It’s hit and miss, say in springtime water rises with snow melt during the day and falls at night…increasing of flow and decreasing depending upon where you are in the snow melt cycle,then add in a surprise rainfall…beaver movement happens 24/7 during spring dispersal so setting for what the water level will be at a certain time is a crap shoo…set more than one trap and style of set. Make sets that could work if the trap is above the water line if necessary. Set two traps per location. Use floats if you want. Trapped for decades without floats.