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Post by seandicare on Dec 28, 2005 15:56:19 GMT -5
well i went out today to check on an area that a friend wanted me to get rid of some pesky beaver. well, when i got there saw lots of sign where they were coming over the ice onto the bank and doing some cutting in a couple spots.
problem is the creek isn't deep enough to drown them, and ice isn't thick enough to get a body grip into the river. i am thinking of setting some baited 330s in the water near the bank shortly. (have to get ahold of the landowner on that side of the creek though) anyone have any other sets i may be able to try.
BTW i had made a small hole in the d@mn a couple months ago, and they haven't tried repairing it at all. i took 1 small (27lbs) beaver out of the area beginning of Nov, and a tripped trap a couple days later./ but for the next week after that nothing was touched. Dom
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Post by wmthrower on Dec 29, 2005 7:21:28 GMT -5
Have you seen the set where you make a U shape out of dead sticks? I'm drawing a blank on the name for it. But you place some bait (peeled sticks) in the back and rest is fenced off with teh dead sticks. You could dig it out some so that a 330 will fit in the opening. Also, you could make a castor mound but guard it with a 330. Just fence down the approach and find the right spot to place the 330. Hope that helps.
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Post by seandicare on Dec 29, 2005 11:45:58 GMT -5
tried the caster mound already, that was what i had when the set was there for a week with nothing but a snapped trap. my stepson made a good point the other day about it, i should stay there with a gun and just shoot them....lol thanks for the ideas, i'll see what i can do with them. Dom
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Post by rex on Dec 29, 2005 14:42:57 GMT -5
Hunting beaver with a firearm is illegal, unless you have a special permit to do so. Might want to try the pen set wmthrower decribed, although it is a bit of work. Keep at it with baited and lured conibear bank sets. 220's work OK if your larger bodygrips keep freezing into the ice. Any traps larger than 220's need to be set in the water. Place them so the bottom jaw is right at, and just above the water line, on an area of the bank that naturally funnels them through your trap to the bait behind. Keep the trigger wires spread apart as far as possible with these smaller traps, to avoid snapped traps. Use a large pile of fresh cut and partially peeled poplar branches as a visual attractor. The pic below shows a beaver caught in the way described above.
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Post by seandicare on Dec 30, 2005 10:31:32 GMT -5
thanks for the info REX i had read in the handbook about hunting furbearers, but had misread it. when i read before i thought it said any furbearer, but after you posted that i looked at the website and saw that beaver and otter are left off the list of animals to shoot.
guess i'm stuck with the trap ideas then....lol it probably be a few days before i will be able to get down to set them again (family problems) but have the whole month to work on them.....i'll post how i do later. DOm
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