Long line beaver trapping

60 miles on the truck and 16 traps checked. 12 beave lr and nla notebto self not to do this again.

Nice job! My back is sore just looking at the picture!

Cool! How much ice are you dealing with?

That’s a lot of ice chopping ...Nice Haul !.....did you remake the sets...lol

I love catching them. The put up is the work...

Nice haul.Not bad dealing with beaver this time of year-you can stack them in the shed like cordwood and take a few out every couple days to thaw and put up.

4 inches in the runs on a 3 day check. All bank dens.

Dang I'm jealous in a sense and in another sense I really hate having to see the chiro more often than needed.

great job forester 79 ice is to thin here still hopefully next week

Looks like some nice tails for the Beaver Tail Contest!
Normally my the darker colors come from Northern Wisconsin and more red in the southern part of the state- quite a contrast in 60 miles.
A lot of hardwork

Yeah there are a couple contenders in there!

Same run produced a true black beaver on Wednesday. We don't seem to get very wide tails around here. Even a 60 lb is lucky to go 7 inches. That run has produced 17 beaver in the last week.

You're either taking some really good vitamins or you are one motivated dude...

I have considered "longlining" for beaver. But I figured a similar outcome would be the result... And working 60 hours a week on top of it would likely send me to my grave.

I think a fellow would make as much or more from castor as he would fur though.

Nice haul.

Mike

Some people pay to go to the gym, this is more fun!!

Nice job. I have done a lot of hard physical labor in my day and I do not think theres is any harder job than beaver trapping. Even more so when under ice.
Thanks for sharing.
Mac

Thanks. I got the dumb idea to set a 100 beaver goal this season. Have to do a good cout but I think I'm getting close to 60 already.

Great haul!


All 330s or some footholds too?

All 330s under ice in bank den runs

Some picks from today. Small run for size. 2 decent 6 total

Great job forester! I too am looking to catch a 100 but your ahead of me. Probably more money in caster than fur but they sure are fun to catch aren't they!? Keep up the good work. At least we don't have much snow or ice to contend with yet. And with the down market I have guys practically begging me to trap them. And there is no shortage around here! Looks like the same for your area. Good luck with your goal!

Awesome catch! Nice on the line pictures too!

6 a day is just about right.Nice haul.

Awesome pictures. This would be a great year to make yourself some fur garments. I just had an otter jacket made, it's warm and comfortable, let me tell you. I think that the next item will be a beaver blanket. You're already half way there.

Figured I would take some pictures as it was fairly warm out. Been kinda thinking about having a vest made for the heck of it.

Sort of a "walk out" freezer situation, eh Boco. Must be nice.

Two questions come to mind:

1) How do you keep mice and other varmints from chewing on your beaver?

2) On the average, about when do you have to have this stockpile of frozen beaver put up before thawing occurs?

Got to my goal of 100 this season Saturday. Time to quite now and home for an early ice out for spring trapping.
Two feet of snow we got is opening runs up and making slush.

This thread looks like what only a trapper .would call fun . It also shows what a service trappers provide often for free to the general public . It would love to spend even a few days doing what you guys did catching that kind of numbers .Great post

Great haul.

great job...we snowshoed in to one yesterday, 16" of ice under all that snow. what a workout! definitely a labor of love

Good Job, nice runs

Darn fun work right there. Something about trapping beavers that makes me happy.

Way to go man.

Now I know where to find a beaver trapper to go south On a real long lining journey. No ice and I'll do all the skinning. LOL

Great job got to love trapping beaver. Actually the put up Is the easy part.

Nuts , you all got to be nuts , lol ! Can’t wait till the thaw so I can join the madness!

I actually enjoy putting up beaver. Something kinda relaxing about it. Really not hard after a guy gets good at it. 16 inches of ice ? Need to find a more active run.
Worked out to 100 beaver in 105 days of trapping.

16" around the feed bed... front door only had 1" , never found another entrance...one of those friend of a guy I know looking to get rid of those beavers...been there 3-4 years. lol...after I set it up, ran into the landowner ,he said he's caught a few here n there.

The Paul Bunyan of beaver trappers, great to see someone catching them when they are worth more!! Spring beaver go bad so fast, coarse, red, and shedding, $7.00 average for spring beaver this year.

I'm up over a 100 this year too Forester, but I tip my hat to you 'cuz all of mine were taken by easy open water trapping out of a boat. Don't know what the casters look like on yours, but my guess is you should get semi decent $$$ for the pelts. Like Wy. Wolfer always says; "there's always a market for the shearable heavies".

Seems only for blanket and up and still at very short money.

Those beaver are at the best now. A year ago I had top price of $19.50 on some, probly same this coming auction? Then u got casters , wasn't it about 7 or 8 years ago , beaver were way up, $50 top, I had 1 on last day , April 15, brought upper $40s or $50

$47 was my best last year for a select heavy 2x. Shipped 106 oz of castor this year. Some of which was from summer nuisance work. Large and up arnt bad. Anything smaller isnt worth it.
Out of 100 this year 46 went large or up.

went back today earlier than anticipated, pulled 1 kit out of a 330...I'll be back on Sunday.....46% large and up is probably a pretty good ratio forester...how much did you get for the smalls shipped? groeny got mine last year for $3

3$ shipped last year. This year they went to groneys green. 3$ He called me out the last pickup. Asked me where the big ones went.
I ran bank dens hard and stayed away from lodges if I had the choice.

That's some pretty hard core beaver trapping. Impressive!

Wow. That's some catch. I must be doing something wrong. It took me 2 months to catch 2 beavers!
Joe

We got big beaver on the river and since I focus on their marking spots rather than feedbeds I catch a higher % of adult beaver.

A few years back I ran a stretch of river I hadn't trapped in 6-7 years and my first 100 beaver only had 3 that didn't at least stretch XL. I took my first batch of beaver up to my receiving agent in Seattle and it coincided with an auction that day so I got to meet Don Rumford and he watched me unload my beaver on the dock. He asked me what I'd done with all my small beavers! LOL