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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: raydog on December 19, 2022, 05:47:51 PM

Title: My First Beaver Catch!
Post by: raydog on December 19, 2022, 05:47:51 PM: 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!
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Post by: boneaddict on December 19, 2022, 05:49:47 PM: Congratulations. That had to be exciting
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Post by: brew on December 19, 2022, 05:53:06 PM: Cool....those are good eats too
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Post by: hunter399 on December 19, 2022, 07:05:18 PM: Heck ya!
Congrats 👏
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Post by: redi on December 19, 2022, 07:07:34 PM: Congratulations looks like a great pelt. What was your strategy to catch in a live trap? Did you set on a runway? Use castor?
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Post by: Mustelidae on December 19, 2022, 07:23:37 PM: Good job :tup: great looking beaver
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Post by: raydog on December 19, 2022, 07:49:45 PM: 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 :chuckle: :chuckle: :dunno:
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Post by: greenhead_killer on December 19, 2022, 07:58:40 PM: 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.
Title: Re: My First Beaver Catch!
Post by: Humptulips on December 20, 2022, 12:39:10 AM: Quote from: raydog on December 19, 2022, 07:49:45 PM
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 :chuckle: :chuckle: :dunno:
That is tried and true set. congrats.
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Post by: Katalla on December 20, 2022, 07:05:05 PM: Well done!
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Post by: lewy on December 20, 2022, 07:08:44 PM: Nice, take ur time fleshing it out, beavers are tricky at first.
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Post by: Cylvertip on December 20, 2022, 07:20:32 PM: Congrats! Welcome to the club.
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Post by: raydog on December 21, 2022, 02:42:52 PM: Quote from: lewy on December 20, 2022, 07:08:44 PM
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
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Post by: pianoman9701 on December 21, 2022, 03:56:39 PM: Well done. :tup: