huntingfool7 - New Location

[huntingfool7]

Giving a helping hand to catch some problem beavers.  They are causing a lot of property damage, digging out the road and plugging drains. 
Saw one swimming when I pulled in this morning and another slapped the water while I was relocating traps.

First catch out of the gate is a 20 lb, 2 oz little guy.  He was caught in the  Bailey, baited with a stick of rubbed alder and pushed into the mud next to the trigger.  Guess it looked like a snack!  Here's a few pictures of the catch, location and finally the reset.  I have some Comstocks guarding a mock castor mound and another covering the slide into a lower pond. 

[huntingfool7]

Adding a little color...Bear Hunter style 

[Norman89]

Right on bud anytime you can help somebody out that's more than likely a spot you can trap next year

[redi]

Nice work

[bear hunter]

Adding a little color...Bear Hunter style 

Nice one Your stacking them up in the bailey. Good job buddy

[huntingfool7]

Bailey strikes again!  Trail camera is set to take one photo, then go to video.
The stick in the center of the frame is a rubbed bait stick.  I rubbed the bark off of a couple inches in the center just above water level (eye level).

You can see he's making a beeline for the bait.

[huntingfool7]

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41 lbs 6 oz

[carpsniperg2]

Nice catch!

[jasnt]

Too bad the video did catch the beaver working the set. Thanks for sharing

[bear hunter]

I love the video's.... Nice Job  Wow they are powerful. Its cool to see what they do once caught.

[huntingfool7]

Too bad the video did catch the beaver working the set. Thanks for sharing

I have the pre catch video.  Will post when I have faster service!

He swims by 20+ seconds before the above photo.  Comes back with that long thin grass/stick that's wrapped around him in the still photo...  Drops his snack, turns 90 degrees and beelines for the bait stick. 

[jasnt]

Too bad the video did catch the beaver working the set. Thanks for sharing

I have the pre catch video.  Will post when I have faster service!

He swims by 20+ seconds before the above photo.  Comes back with that long thin grass/stick that's wrapped around him in the still photo...  Drops his snack, turns 90 degrees and beelines for the bait stick. 

awesome 👍🏻

[huntingfool7]

@jasnt

25 minutes before     hmmm, that's new....
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[jasnt]

👍🏻 I love watching how they work a set.

[bear hunter]

 

[Trapper John]

Nice work, that will teach um ........ 
JC   

[Machias]

Very cool, I have to do some videoing, that is neat to watch!

[REHJWA]

Thanks for sharing the videos.

[huntingfool7]

Caught a twenty pounder in one of the Comstocks.  No video on that one, must have came in from the backside of the set.

Trail cam video on the Bailey set was interesting.  My replacement bait stick got a close sniff and found unsatisfactory.  He bumps the trigger from the side...soft enough that he got a hall pass...That stick has been replaced with something thinner and a little more tender.  Bon appetit!

Here's the miss.

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Second set modification includes adding a second Bailey.  I noticed that there is a lot of activity when other beaver come to look at their caught comrade.   Second trap is set about where the highest traffic shows up on other videos.  Bait stick (since removed and replaced) in the foreground marks the original Bailey trigger location. 

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[jasnt]

That would be cool to get a double 👍🏻

[Norman89]

What game camera are you using? I was listening to trapping radio last night and meat trapper did a segment on cage trapping and he is looking for a good camera that picks up in low light to video his beaver catches in his cage he bought from Kirk dekalb he is very implementing cages unto his line I actually referred him to our forum here to help him in building his own cages also

[klikboom]

Wow awesome video! Love see them get drawn in, great use of a bait stick. Haven't seen that before.

[huntingfool7]

@Norman89  Game cams are Bushnell Aggressors.  I highly recommend them.  The black IR model will have grainier night video/pics but even coyotes don't pay them any attention.  The red IR model takes better night pictures/video.  Motion detection range out to 60-70 feet of beavers swimming.  Motion detection to triggering a photo is something close to a third of a second.  Video is much slower.  Something between 2-3 seconds.
I normally set my cameras to "hybrid" setting, taking one photo then automatically going to video.  There is a noticeable delay between the pic and video.

Lately there has been very little video of target critters.  Nothing interesting enough to post.

This colony is causing a huge amount of damage.  There are two private roads on this property that have been seriously compromised.  Both of them have beaver dams built on top of them.  At least one has had tunnels dug into it and a large portion of the road surface removed to make the water deeper. 

Here's a picture of what used to be a road-

[Trapper John]

Caught a twenty pounder in one of the Comstocks.  No video on that one, must have came in from the backside of the set.

Trail cam video on the Bailey set was interesting.  My replacement bait stick got a close sniff and found unsatisfactory.  He bumps the trigger from the side...soft enough that he got a hall pass...That stick has been replaced with something thinner and a little more tender.  Bon appetit!

Here's the miss.

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Second set modification includes adding a second Bailey.  I noticed that there is a lot of activity when other beaver come to look at their caught comrade.   Second trap is set about where the highest traffic shows up on other videos.  Bait stick (since removed and replaced) in the foreground marks the original Bailey trigger location. 

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Years ago I purchased a few Bailey traps and learned to hate um.  But I will give you a little knowledge that I learned with them
Take a small stick, say 1/2"or so in diameter, 6" to 8" long and tie it to the trigger "horizontal" not vertical.
You want this stick to be 1" or so below the surface of the water or right on top of the water in the pathway where the beaver swims.
Make sure that it is a old looking stick and not a fresh white one.  To the beaver it is just another stick floating in the water.

Put your bait stick outside the trap with fresh castor on it, say 12" to 18" away from the trap but dead center to the trap and floating stick.
When the beaver swim over the small floating stick, he will hit it with his stomach and trigger the trap off, catching the beaver.
Good Luck
JC   

[Norman89]

Wow that's some damage! Need a second hand and some more im just down the road from you haha

[huntingfool7]

Another road damage picture!