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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: Machias on November 01, 2011, 08:10:27 PM

Title: Beaver Job
Post by: Machias on November 01, 2011, 08:10:27 PM: So I get a call from a farmer out in the scabrock country about some beaver daming up Rock Creek near Edwall. The creek is about 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep in most places. They have a series of small little dams, I counted 6 in a 500 yards stretch. And finally found the main dam.

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I applied for and got issued a nusiance permit for the banned traps. Went out and set three sets and had two beaver the first morning. Killed both of them so quick they didn't even move the conibears off the stabilizers. Next morning I had a third hog. The first beaver was just shy of 60 pounds, had super nice fur. The second beaver was average beaver of 36 pounds and looks like a dwarf next to the big boy. The third beaver had the biggest dang tail I have ever seen. I wear a size 10, look how big this beaver is. He wasn't as heavy as the big boy but he was just as big. I tore a big hole in the dam and so far it has not been repaired. I think I have them all taken care of....at least for now.

Castor mound set

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Perfect catch

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This is the "small" beaver, never even moved the trap off the stabilizer. :yike:

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Not your typical beaver country. I caught the big guy right below the bush just past the fence. You can't even see the creek.

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Third beaver

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Look at the size of this dude's tail!!!

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Happiness is a bucket full of beaver!!! :IBCOOL:

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Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: seth30 on November 01, 2011, 08:13:08 PM: Dang that thing had a huge tail :tup:
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: 3nails on November 01, 2011, 08:44:34 PM: I've got to figure out how to get one in a cage. Are you allowed to keep the pelt when you get a nusiance permit?
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Machias on November 01, 2011, 08:50:48 PM: Sure, you can keep the pelts.
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: D360 on November 01, 2011, 09:02:05 PM: Good work! Awesome harvests!!
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: whitey on November 02, 2011, 06:23:21 AM: Nice catch.
You know what they say about a guy with big feet and big hands, Dont you.. :yike:
Big socks and big gloves.. :dunno:
Do you need some more 330's..
I have a bunch of them..
I will be over in your neck of the woods this weekend and could toss a few in the truck.
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: GoldTip on November 02, 2011, 06:43:36 AM: Nice job on the nuisance beavers. That is one big beaver tail for sure. :tup:
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Cascade_fisher on November 02, 2011, 07:13:28 AM: Is it the fancy rugs in the van that gets you all the beaver?
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Skillet on November 02, 2011, 07:23:16 AM: Nice catch! That big boy has not been hurting for the groceries.

Never ceases to amaze me what you can see out in the scab rock country. Biggest beaver I ever saw (by a wide margin) was in Sprague Lake a number of years ago.
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Machias on November 02, 2011, 08:11:50 AM: Quote from: whitey on November 02, 2011, 06:23:21 AM
Nice catch.
You know what they say about a guy with big feet and big hands, Dont you.. :yike:
Big socks and big gloves.. :dunno:
Do you need some more 330's..
I have a bunch of them..
I will be over in your neck of the woods this weekend and could toss a few in the truck.

:chuckle:
I could use some extra ones, how much do you want for them?
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Machias on November 02, 2011, 08:14:51 AM: Quote from: Cascade_fisher on November 02, 2011, 07:13:28 AM
Is it the fancy rugs in the van that gets you all the beaver?

I was actually in a bunch of trouble. I was in the wife's Jeep....don't worry honey I doubt if we have anything just yet... :chuckle: That nice "rug" is a cool quilt my mother-in-law made me, has bear and deer squares on it, really nice, it's back in the house. Can't let my mother-in-law see the photo! :yike:
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: whitey on November 02, 2011, 08:38:26 AM: Machias.
P.M sent.
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Donaye37 on November 02, 2011, 02:17:30 PM: nice good job man, cant wait to get them pelts!
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Machias on November 02, 2011, 02:27:05 PM: pelt, not pelts :chuckle:
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Donaye37 on November 02, 2011, 02:49:45 PM: :yeah: :tup:
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: gramps on November 03, 2011, 08:41:58 AM: Good work, Fred
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Special T on November 03, 2011, 12:22:53 PM: A couple of weekends ago i was in the Columbia Basin at my bro-inlaws... The beaver ot there knock down corn like you wouldn't belive! they use it for trying to make dams and such... Is amazing the kind of wildlife you see out the desert if you add a little water!
Title: Re: Beaver Job
Post by: Machias on November 03, 2011, 12:34:31 PM: No kidding and as good of engineers as these little suckers are I bet they could build a heck of a dam with a field of corn!!