I have been wanting to do this for a while. I had a few days off work and set a 2 mile loop in my kayak today.

Nice looking country… hope you do well

Me too Savell, but if not it was nice to get out on the river and enjoy the piece and quite. It was cold but a pleasant day.

Good luck, pretty good looking waterway

Nice calm water. Is it deep enough to drown? Good rat, otter, mink and coon water. Wear that floatation vest.

Good luck...hope you stack em up!!! Otter, too!

It is Bob, I made 2 drowning sets, the rest were 330’s.

Following. I have wandered about beaver trapping and kayaks. Good luck!

How many traps and how much gear can you comfortably haul with the kayak? That's something I've always thought about trying to do, but I figured I'd drown myself.

And how many beaver will it handle on the line? An extra couple hundred pounds could be dicey.

…. Your big pollock butt can’t even fit in a kayak lol

What a cool adventure! Have fun

traps arent the problem...its the beaver.


loading them so you dont sink or have stability problems is the hard part. I ran a trolling motor as you can see in the pic, bad idea to load beaver in the front first as your bow gets too low and might submarine you. first few beaver on the back. then they move up front. keep skinning gear with you if you have a really good day because a few big beaver like I had there makes you a bit tipsy because your CoG is now lower in the water.

video of my line a few years ago

https://rumble.com/vy921p-yak-trapping-beaver-22.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_a

Sam, I had a dozen 330’s and 2 mb 750’s. All had 10’ of cable attached. It rode fine in the water, wasn’t tippy at all. Only 2 sections had small rapids, the rest was calm deep water.

Brian, If I catch a couple hundred pounds I’ll make a few runs to get them back to the sxs. Easy paddling for the most part.

Funny you say that. My first time in a kayak, my big Pollock butt got stuck when I flipped it upside down. I came pretty dang close to drowning before I got shallow enough to flip things back over.

… ever thought about tying them off and floating them behind?

Very cool Sniper. Appreciate the info. Your kayak is much nicer than mine. Bought the Walmart special years ago to go on a youth float trip with my daughter. It has served me well

Thank you for the answers everyone. I had figured that skinning on the line would be part of it if a guy was very successful.

Sam, I have the sit on top style. I have no desire for the kind you slide into. I’ll take a pic of it tomorrow.

just float them behind the boat. Did It a few times when trapping out of a canoe.