Posted By: Wild_Idaho
That's a wrap... - 03/26/23 02:01 PM
Called it a season yesterday as I made my last check headed down to our local fur sale. I was going to pull traps last Tuesday, but as I was pulling a castor mound set on a creek I've trapped for several years I saw three otters swimming around a beaver lodge. They saw me and went into the lodge. So I put a 280 and 330 in pinch points downstream. I also put a 220 in a land trail leading into the lodge and a 330 in the underwater run to it. Next check I had a beaver in the run coming out of the lodge and two muskrats in the pinch point sets. Reset everything. Next check one more muskrat in a pinch point and a beaver in the run. Yesterday I had an otter in the lodge run and a 58 lbs beaver in a pinch point. I have heard beavers and otters will share dens and lodges as long as they don't have young. This showed me that is true. Good way to finish. It was a pretty tough year with lots of snow ice and freeze-thaw but I ended up with 8 coyotes, 7 beaver, 33 muskrats, 1 otter, 1 mink, 1 coon. Did better than expected on coyotes at the sale. Averages for me were $50 coyotes, $31 beaver, $2.25 muskrat, $2.25 coon, $21/lbs castor.