This is a good conversation that brings up the reason why I added 1x2 fencing along the sides of my float. I’ve seen no evidence of this happening IF THE FLOAT WAS FLOATING FREE! This brings up another design factor of how to keep your floats away from the bank as the water recedes! If you allow your float to get itself hung-up on the bank as the water goes down, I have had beaver climb over my fencing and a hung-up float will almost guarantee raccoon will climb on your float and destroy the fake castor mound AND clean up all lure. These are just a couple reasons I gathered from experience as how I needed to design my floats to keep them always in the water all the time so everything has to swim into the float! The fencing really appears to deter beaver from climbing on & over it as long as the beaver is swimming.

Great float thread worthy of the archives Seldom!