My First Beaver Catch!

[raydog]

Caught my first beaver today. Wasn't expecting anything so I brought the dog along. I'm gonna make the bbq smoked beaver sandwiches from my meat eater cook book the girlfriend got me. She was a trooper, standing out there in the snow helping me skin it!

[boneaddict]

Congratulations.   That had to be exciting

[brew]

Cool....those are good eats too

[hunter399]

Heck ya!
Congrats 👏

[redi]

Congratulations looks like a great pelt. What was your strategy to catch in a live trap? Did you set on a runway? Use castor?

[Mustelidae]

Good job  great looking beaver

[raydog]

Thanks guys! He seemed like a big one. Bigger than he looks in the photo. I'd guess 40-50lbs.

This was my very first trap set ever too. Beginners Luck!

As far as strategy goes I didn't really have one lol, but here's what I did. I set up on the edge of the water. Maybe 6-12" from the waters edge. The trap was kinda slanted down hill, so I tied it up to a tree Incase something got to wiggling around in there. Good thing I did, that bugger bent my cheap trap all up! Then I just cut some huckleberry and ferns to hide the trap. I used a castor attractant I got off Amazon to lure him in there. My method with that was to spread some in the very back portion of the trap and in the process get it all over myself! Works every time 

[greenhead_killer]

Congrats on the first catch! The bbq pulled beaver sandwich is awesome as well. That was the very first thing we made when I caught my first a. Few years ago. Can’t go wrong there.

[Humptulips]

Thanks guys! He seemed like a big one. Bigger than he looks in the photo. I'd guess 40-50lbs.

This was my very first trap set ever too. Beginners Luck!

As far as strategy goes I didn't really have one lol, but here's what I did. I set up on the edge of the water. Maybe 6-12" from the waters edge. The trap was kinda slanted down hill, so I tied it up to a tree Incase something got to wiggling around in there. Good thing I did, that bugger bent my cheap trap all up! Then I just cut some huckleberry and ferns to hide the trap. I used a castor attractant I got off Amazon to lure him in there. My method with that was to spread some in the very back portion of the trap and in the process get it all over myself! Works every time 

That is tried and true set. congrats.

[Katalla]

Well done!

[lewy]

Nice, take ur time fleshing it out, beavers are tricky at first.

[Cylvertip]

Congrats!  Welcome to the club.

[raydog]

Nice, take ur time fleshing it out, beavers are tricky at first.

Will do, I've been Watching some videos on fleshing. Need to get a fleshing knife

[pianoman9701]

Well done.