Biggest castor ever? Pics

Jerrys brother buys castor for his lure business and the other day him and Jerry were going through it and this is what Jerry found.












His brother doesn't know for sure where he got it.

It weighed 15.7 ounces.
Have any of yall gotten them this big before?
Jerry has trapped probably 10 to 15000 beaver over the last 30 years and he's never seen one. Close to this size.

That's really incredible for a set of dried castor. Hard to top that one. I have seen some huge fresh castor weights posted here in the past but nothing with that weight dried that I recollect.

I know it's way bigger than anything we've ever laid eyes. Jerry had one that dried to 8 ounces once but nothing like that.

I wonder what the largest castor on record is? Or if they even keep those kinda records

Amazing.
Paul had a huge one he showed us one time

I've had a few that were in the 10-12 ounce range dry.

Here is a random pic of a nice one:

Another nice one. 12 ounces wet.

Here's another one, 14 ozs wet:

Medium/small Alaskan castor is very similar

White what does a large o e look like and weigh?

The best example I can offer is for you to get a good look under a Hereford bull .

^^^More likely under a Hereford steer.

Our beaver generally can't get more than a couple feet from the water. It's too difficult for them to walk. AND......the water they live in has to be quite deep !

I’ve only caught one a little over ten ounces and that was in NC. I haven’t beaver trapped in Alaska. The ice is thick and the snow as well as a couple of other things is deep.

I remember a 15oz. castor from a 68lb. beaver. Back before cell phones and ease of posting photo's, so I can't prove it. It would be no surprise from Beaverpeeler that it came out of the Willamette.

One pound three ounces

I don’t know if it’s painful but it has to be uncomfortable.

I can't believe how rated G this has been, especially when it is pictured with a "teabag". Everyone must be on their Sunday best behavior like they should be.

Wow

Potato sack

Are you trying to tell us in your advanced age you had to lower the water in the toilet bowl?

It's tough to get old.

You mean one of those miniature Herefords, right?

We need a Boone &Crockett category for these!

Great for a contest next winter, biggest castors instead of largest tail.

They look just like a couple of big baked potatoes. Giants!

Haven't seen castor like any of those pictured in years. The last few years including this spring the castor have been running really light with not much in them. Don't really understand why.

They call their beaver John Holmes beaver.

WOW! Is that one you caught or bought? I’ve never come remotely close to such a size! The biggest I’ve ever caught was about 12 ounces wet.

One fellow from NC sent in some that were 1.25 pounds to NAFA

Bought that pair from Winston Marshall. He's in Virginia.

Paul, those look like they're hard on the inside, ie: barkstone?

yes

In your opinion is the quality of mineralized castor as good as regular for your purposes?

Hard as mineralized or hard as packed tight? Now I’m getting a little worried about myself.

The ones I pictured are hard but still a little pliable at the same time.

At first we wondered if someone had stuffed them with something but there are no signs of that and the shells themselves are huge so it hasn't been manipulated that we can tell

So Cathryn, you are confirming that size does matter?

Under the right circumstances. Yes.

Hey! We're trying to have a serious beaver conversation. Sheesh!

Here's another beaver shot:


Do you reckon maybe this ol' boy had some size that mattered?

He looks full of it. For sure. Same as most men I know.

Seriously though. We didn't know if castor would be bigger on through the ice caught beaver?

I wasn't expecting to see a huge set from VA and then someone saying they have heard or seen are castor in NC.

Had a few this season that weighed half a pound after five days of drying. Very few decent size castors come out of the beavers around here this season seemed to be a better one.