Pictures Added/ Well Mudded Lodge ...Slick

I Believe I'll have some Beaver in the AM: This is one of the Slickest mudded Lodges I've ever trapped.

I'd say its going to be a cold winter....but so far its been extremely warm.



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It could be that we usually have All Ice and Snow by now.
Anyway lots of feed.

that feed pile looks huge. maybe 3 generations living there? how many did you set there?

Yep,good size feedpile.
Youll be skinning in a couple days.

Nice lodge for sure.Very active

oh man that looks awesome good luck

That is what we call an "Established Colony"

6 sets.

I was on the way to a private landowner property to set so I only set 6.


I'll be out there in the AM:

I guess it depends on your goals. You could make just a couple sets well away from the lodge, likely get the big ones, leave the junior stock.

Working a job...they want them gone.

However its a Pond ... Right next to a River system so the Beaver will always move back in.

Fingers crossed for 6 then.

Its Happened

I'd be happy with 2 or 3

Good luck 330!!!!

Wack um !

report back tomorrow. good luck! hope its not too long of a carry for you.

60 yards

Bring the sled

waiting for result

We cannon check until 1/2 hour before sunrise.

May I ask what the reasoning is behind that rule?

Ya, that sounds like a well thought out law... I can see no firearms, but can you set in the dark? If I couldnt trap in the dark I couldnt trap.

I bet you are emptying traps right now. You got your knife sharp?

I don't think they need any reasoning for their trapping rules in Minnesota. Its just a table load of DNR folks sitting around, shooting their thoughts, and writing down regs. Now, they probably have to have diversity philosophies written into them, such as "transgender Hmong humans get to trap for free" . Got to love how the PRMN runs things...

Have fun 330 Trapper!!!

We can legally trap from 5 am to 10 pm.

We better send out a search Paahdy.....it’s getting late

Mikes right ^^^ *** I haven't gone out early for a few years. Pre-stroke Dad my kids say.

Online last night said different than the reg book....

Rats plugged a couple good beaver sets, So One BeVer for a 20 hour soak.

Oh well There's tomorrow

I just found out the city workers had been shooting there Before they called me in.

So now its a Crap shoot....really ticks me off

too bad about the shooters. did they say how many they killed? trapping hours used to be 6 to 6, then it was extended to 5 a.m. to 10 p,m. 17 hours a day is enough for me. most public land here closes at 10 p.m., so im guessing thats the reason for trapping hours ending then.

NO a lot of times they won't tell me how many day shot or their different shooters on the city crew and they seem to do take pot shotsKnow a lot of times they won't tell me how many day shot or their different shooters on the city crew and they seem to take pot shots.

Can't trap after 10? I bet that gets a lot of enforcement. Does that mean you can't "set" any traps but you can check? If your in the country after 10 pm and have a trapping license are you automatically guilty?
There is no shortage of stupidity where democrats congregate!

Public land closes?? Shouldn't you call that "King's Land" or something then?

Do you get paid by the beaver? Employed road crew members would never be carrying firearms or be permitted to shoot guns while working due to liability reasons here but I get that happening by nearby or affected property owners occasionally. I discourage it because it cuts directly into the profit/income being paid by the beaver.

personally ive never heard of road crews carrying guns, and im sure thats illegal. usually the county/township/state hires an adc person to get rid of problem beavers, and theyre allowed to shoot if trapping doesnt get the job done.

Well fossil, the city crew does here, sanctioned or not. The manager told me last year after I had set up .

When I did nuisance beaver work on the RR my authorization from the MNR was to trap and shoot.Each was a separate authorization.
On top of that I had to have a letter each year from the chief engineer MofW from the RR authorizing carrying a gun on RR property.
Employees acting as agents for the company can get these authorizations in Ontario.
I was/am always armed.

thats interesting, but like you said, probably not sanctioned. what city, if you dont mind me asking.

That sounds like a job from Heaven!

It was a great job 330,but a tough job-hard work-had to remove all dams and return water to natural flow.Pay was great,lots of overtime and my own boss.
As long as beavers were getting whacked and the water lowered I never heard from my boss.Worked directly with track inspectors who would report problem areas.(emergencys).
Also did a lot of inland work identified thru twice a year aerial surveys i did with a contracted helecopter service,sometimes a mile or more from the railroad thru the bush often in remote areas and in bug season.
Needed to carry a gun for whacking beaver as well as protection from bears in some areas.

Hey 330... I bet you could smell all of that black muck before you got too it... That is a mess. Need to see photos of your results

Garry-

Any other beaver colonys nearby that one 330?

There might be Boco , this is in a city park pond.

Over a foot path there is a beaten path ...the beaver use to go to a river . I set both sides of that chanel with 280's under and dive stick. I have to be as Incognito as I can be because of the dog walkers etc.

On the river side this morning were two green willow branches fresh cut by beaver . Like they were coming IN and got to the still open water chanel and didn't want to dive with them. I set a 330 a bit further out , still a dive set. Usually I would not make all the traps totally under. But people you know.

If we had Ice around the feed pile I'd make 3 or 4 different sets.

They've been here before

Yesterday.1 sm/med beav.1 rat

Today 2 LG. Beaver 1 in a 330, one in a snare

This was off the mud slicked house, a slide Where I had a Snare.

The LG. Beaver hit the Snare, took it down the bottom of the 10' re rod . Pulled out the bottom end of the dive rod and was very live and up on shore waiting for me.

Next time if water opens, I use a shorter cable, that was the problem. Too much leverage.

Way to go... keep at'em...

Garry-

Hammer’em

Great

The fun was finding the dropped willow sticks at the entrance coming from the river. I had the two ends of the channel covered with 2 - 280 Belisles. But I believe the Big fat head beaver dropped the fresh cut sticks and went overland from river to the pond.
So yesterday I added a 330 3' further out with very light blocking.
Nailed it today! Hope there's more
Re make.. .supposed to be 45° tomorrow

Logan and I walked (carefully) on the ice today and made a couple beaver sets. Hopefully between them, a few otter sets and a couple of fox sets something connects tomorrow.

Thumbs up from Kansas. Thanks I enjoyed the pics

I hope So 160!

Thanks Pawnee!

Good haul from 1 house 330.

Thanks Boco ,you asked about another colony. One of the two Big ones today was on the River side of the narrow channel , heading into the pond.