Beaver

Pretty big house. How many beavers would you say are here?


Pretty big feedpile. It’s about 10-12 feet deep around the pile.

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So far I caught two beavers the size of the one in the picture and two YOY. How many more beavers do you think are here? I’ve trapped this house for a few years and this is the biggest it’s ever been
The bigger two were the same size. Both female

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That's a serious beaver!! I wonder how large the above water inside the hut is in sq feet?

Got one of the small ones from this snare pole. The ice was still thin when we set this one


Got the other 3 from this side. All 3 were caught leaving the house


Once the ice got thick enough to walk on I put a couple snare poles further out and put 2 330s where the original snare pole was. No catches for 6 days now but there’s fresh bubbles every day. Maybe one big male left? Do they leave the house everyday? Pretty decent at trapping land animals but I enjoy this beaver trapping because I’ve still got a lot to learn. Harder to get replies on a trapping thread so let’s go Brandon. Lol.

Ryan
If you have any of aspen(green bark) use it for bait. We call it beaver candy here.
I would cut it miles away from where I trapped. I like small diameter and would hang 4 snares around it.
In the river I would trap both sides of the house even in medium current. They would usually have a toilet downstream.
Anyway that’s how I trapped through the ice. Good luck!

they can hold up in there house for days ,normally they have two entrance , and there can be lots in one house , I'm guessing 10

Hey that lets go Brandon is for the Spy Point thread or if you start a grizzly hunting thread

Lots of activity at that house(can tell by the open water-that is where your main entrace channels are).
Beaver house can have 3,4 or even 5 entrances,but there is no need to set them all.All the beaver use all the entrances,so if you set the main entrance with multiple traps you can take 4 or 5 in a couple checks,then pull.
That house has likely minimum of 6 beaver and maybe 10.

Those are great pictures . The NWT is my favourite part of this country

Really not as much activity on this post as it deserves. I think American beaver trappers are not commenting because they are hidding Trump votes in beaver houses. I beleive the scientific name for beaver is Castor canadiansis. Now you can't get any more anti American than that.

Well I beaver trap in texas, so ice trapping is foreign to me. Plus I'm still a rookie, so I don't know enough to comment much. I have crawled into a beaver bank den, but I didn't find any trump votes.

The Trump votes are the ones muskrat sells his pelts to,..oh no,..the conundrum!