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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: sled on November 21, 2011, 07:56:46 PM

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Title: Beaver bait? The pond type!
Post by: sled on November 21, 2011, 07:56:46 PM

  Just curious about beaver trapping and the best bait and legal trapping method.

Title: Re: Beaver bait? The pond type!
Post by: butcher98951 on November 21, 2011, 08:00:53 PM

We just use caster blended with a little oil beavers are very territory animals

Title: Re: Beaver bait? The pond type!
Post by: Humptulips on November 21, 2011, 08:56:44 PM

Besides the castor based lures which are most commonly used I have used cottonwood/poplar as a bait. Beaver love cottonwood and they can smell it for quite a ways. I cut a few finger sized branches, peel one for eye appeal. It can be a good change up if the beaver have been wised up to castor. In the cage traps a combination of the bait and castor based lure is good too.