Im doing a ADC beaver job its the fist time ive done beaver theres hardly any sign there's still there but the owner saw them 2weeks ago so i made a castor mound in front of the only slide i found and placed a 330 in front of it. Anything i should have done differently

It would be good to know if anyone has tried to catch that beaver prior. My experience has been with educated beavers and they would have nothing to do with a conibear or even a snare. Would not come near any bait or lure. I had success with a well concealed foothold on a drowner. If there is not sufficient depth to drown, I hear tell that long-chaining beavers can be effective in areas where the water is too shallow. Hopefully you can connect...good luck.

As far as i know there has been no trapping on the property i didnt have the stuff for a drowning set so i ran a 5’ piece of 1/2 or 3/4 rod through the eye pf the spring and shoved it about 3feet deep till it got pretty solid

Are you on a pond or river?

Pond

If you are trapping a pond, locate the outflow or the overflow pipe. They generally can't pass up the sound of trickling or running water and will be active in that area trying to stop the flow. You are likely to find spots there where you can make some good trail sets or blind sets.

Ponds

Typical locations most ponds share.

Overflow standpipe and spillway. Spillway often gets dammed. Dam breach set.

Downstream outlet base of spillway, often a crossover trail from main dam to here. Trail sets, snares if legal. 330 or foothold at the pond end of crossover.

Upper pond end, usual location of lodge/den. Avoid setting den until last to avoid alerting.

Above that the inlet stream is often dammed, look for crossovers and channels.

Walk banks looking for feed beds and pullouts. Note the current choice of feed, match the hatch with peeled sticks and some Woodchipper.

If anyone has been there before you avoid using castor based anything until you need to. I prefer blind everything to start and if you get lucky you never have to break out lure.

I like my beaver dumb and want them to stay that way. So tread lightly.

Good post warrior...lots of experience shown there.

It seems the beaver might be gone no damed up overflow pipe just nothing! The one thing i did notice tho is down below the dam is very swampy so i wonder if he just moved a few hundred yards