Castor Prices

What’s Castor selling for? Anybody know?

The recent fur sales had averages around $60/lb. Some lure dealers are still paying $80/lb no grading.

Thanks, I got a few lbs. I need to sell.

I need to go Get Some to make more lures.
Springs A comming

I was just outside and you don't need to hurry.

Kaatz Bros advertized $75-

I just looked at Kaatz $65 on castor as of today. and dropping.

I have got 14# of early 2000 vintage southern castor that i dried and put in ziplocks and forgot about somehow in the depths of the freezer. found while doing some serious digging. haha anyone interested pm me

Check in with Paul...he was looking for Southern castor

So if you have two beavers,one south and one north,how close can they live to each other ,and if they interbreed across the line,do some kits have southern type castors and other kits have northern type castors,or do they all have half and half,or is there a zone where the castor is neither north or south?

Boco i think you just got ur feelers hurt because someone thinks your beaver are second class

Paul should be able to answer your question boco, half his are from Alabama and the other half from Wisconsin.

If you deal with Cottonmouths while trapping they are Southern, if not they are Northern.

i always figured it was the mason dixon line. but the cotton mouth theory sounds about right to me. south to me is anywhere warmer than home in january, like arkansass or north carolina.

LOL, if you have a northern and southern beaver in the south, where they're eating sweet gum, the castors from both of these and offspring will have southern castor. If the same thing happened in the north, where they were eating aspen, they would have northern castor. It's what they're eating that determines what the castor smells like. The beavers we have down here that originated in Wisconsin have castors that are southern in smell, because of what they're eating.

Pine and willow eaters have a bit of a different smelling castors too.

i am looking for east / west /south / north castor and every thing in between lol pm what you have and for prices

Good way to clear that up

I wonder what the cottonwood/poplar eaters register as Paul?

I really don't know. There's not enough of those here to tell. The Aspen is what really puts what I call the northern odor in castor. The aspen is a poplar, so other poplars may induce the same odor into the castors, but I don't know.

Popple (aspen), Balm of Gilead (aspen species), and willow eaters here, lol, I dont separate the various flavors, though, lol.

Give me your address and i will send you a cottonwood feeder to try. Maybe you could call it Soyboy Backbreaker in honor of us left coasties.

Willow and cottonwood main diet in my neck of the woods. Where would those rate on the southern scale?

What if a northern beaver "comes out" and Identifies as southern?

I'd call that "queer".



I don't know. Cottonwood is in the poplar family, so it may induce a similar odor in the castor.

Hahaha! True

I always thought you looked at their teeth to tell

Hey Paul,when you buy a bunch of castor and are smelling each one to sort out the south from the north,does your nose get burned out after a few dozen or so?

I segregate according to location. South/North. If they're caught in the south, I don't need to smell them. This is the first year I've bought northern castor, and so far the castor I've gotten from NY and ME smell virtually the same. The diets in those two states must be the about the same.

Lol. I used to think there couldn’t be a difference. Having trapped in the south and then the north, there’s a HUGE difference.

Dobbins going to have change the name of his company to The Crappy Castor Company.

Naw, I only deal in the finest quality castor.

Hey Paul,you should try to get some castor from Kosoi-That would likely have a different smell than either.
Might be a super deadly lure,

I dont know, I always figured that southern castor to be the Soy Latte of castor, but...lol, correct me if I'm wrong

I don't know. Talk to Backbreaker, it's the standard. I don't think it's anywhere near soy.

I wonder what the beaver's food supply is there. I'm thinking I saw aspen in some videos, so it may be the same as the northern tier of the US.

Yea maybe so.

I'd sure like to get some to satisfy my curiosity.

I'm just joking around, I've never tried it, never looked at a storebought lure until years after I started trapping beaver using homemade lure as I was taught to do so.

Id be willing to bet that a North American Beaver would swim across the Mississippi River for a castor mound with some Russian Beaver Castor on it.

You might be right there. I sure would like some to play with.

Well, the interesting thing there is Kosoi's beaver are a different species. Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber). But at $180 lb Paul might have to raise his prices a mite.

I Know they have or at least had a huge beaver problem in Tierra del fuego.
I wonder if any castor buyers tapped that market?
They might have an exotic diet down there.

Those be the FAR southern beaver I guess.

I saw a special on the TV about that. Looks like there's lots of beavers down there. I wonder what their diet is.

Yep, those would sure be far far southern beavs! I once trapped a little stream in Wy called prairie creek. There was only one surviving tree on the whole creek I trapped, and it was an ash, and had been chewed down so many times that it was a bunch of stumps. Those were the worst castors I had ever seen or smelled. Didn’t even bother to remove them, were about the size if rat glands, and a real yellow color. Hardly any smell to them at all. There were dam after dam all the way down that creek, snd they were all like that, but all they were eating was cattails! They absolutely were the worst set of beaver I ever caught!

I saw that too. If I remember right they were really concerned about the environmental damage caused by those beavers as the tree species down there don't coppice like northern species. So cut a tree down and it's gone for good.

Am I the only one wondering where I can look into getting a piece of the action in Tierra Del Fuego? I have tried to find info a year or so ago, but nothing I can find so far. Anyone know anything about “applying” for a beaver job down there?

I think the beavers in Tierra del fuego cut down southern beech-apparently really big trees-old growth.They must feed on the tops like they do on the big Bam here.

We have a different ration for beavers at each pond. Pavel ! I can send you some of our castor for free for experiments. how to make a deal ?

I do not understand! What do you mean when you say chewing gum?

I think they are talking about sweet gum, It’s a type of tree.

good read thanks paul

Have you ever made Backbreaker with Northern caster?

No your not.

The last frontier when it comes to beaver work

Ok, since nobody else will ask, where in the heck is Tierra Del Fuego?

Got it found. Southern South America.
Long way from home lol.

I thinking $50,000.00 set up fee and still thinking about price per critter.

Yeah, I too salivate at the idea of beaver trapping down in Chile. I even speak the language.

I sold my northern castor to Paul and was plenty happy. What a nice guy.

Alaska trapper association prez went to Tierra del Fuego and checked out the beaver situation down there. There was an article in the Alaska Trapper magazine on it. If you get hold of ATA Fairbanks Zarnke can probably give you more info. Go to header on Wilderness page for link to ATA.