Finally caught this beaver. It was super challenging, hardly any water, would disappear for a week or more then take out a tree. Last week talking to the farmer he said it had taken 20k in trees. I’m glad that once I started trapping they only lost a couple and that was while I told them to pull all traps and let it get back to being a beaver for a week or so. I finally went back, set some snares and got it on the next check.

Found a spot in one of the deepest puddles I could find. There was a log that parallels the bank about a foot from the bank, I set one of three snares between the bank and log. One downstream one up a ways. As I came to the lower snare I could smell castor, Hmm nothing, go up next snare had it wrapped around the log. Good day for sure.

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Way to go, WWS. Satisfying, for sure.

Good to have a big bag of tricks to acess to get rid of the hard to catch ones.