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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: gramps on February 03, 2012, 05:08:07 PM

Title: 62 Pounder
Post by: gramps on February 03, 2012, 05:08:07 PM: So, I was checking traps with my friend and mentor and this one filled the trap up pretty well. The trap was a swim thru' that I got from BearTrap..
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Post by: boneaddict on February 03, 2012, 05:12:35 PM: Wow....So will he make a super blanket?
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on February 03, 2012, 05:28:28 PM: Dandy!
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Post by: Jason on February 03, 2012, 05:37:12 PM: :yeah:
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Post by: 3nails on February 03, 2012, 06:00:25 PM: Wow that's a fatty!
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Post by: 400out on February 03, 2012, 06:04:53 PM: nice one gramps! :tup:
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Post by: Feanix on February 03, 2012, 07:24:34 PM: Thats a big beaver.
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Post by: SkookumHntr on February 03, 2012, 07:50:11 PM: Thats a fat beav!
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Post by: Humptulips on February 03, 2012, 11:25:04 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on February 03, 2012, 05:12:35 PM
Wow....So will he make a super blanket?

Easy! :tup:
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Post by: Wacenturion on February 07, 2012, 07:46:03 AM: Nice Beaver. Reminds me of my first beaver I ever caught in a drowning set. Was just under 75 lbs. It was officially weighed on a certified scale at a grain elevator in Coulee City. That beaver now resides in the Grant County Museum in Ephrata. Been there for years.
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Post by: SunnySlopes on February 07, 2012, 08:09:07 AM: I've seen that hog of yours in the museum Wacenturion. Good place for that speciman. I've had two beaver on the scale that went #73. I remember a beaver down at O'Sullivin resevour that was bigger but never made it to a scale.
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Post by: pianoman9701 on February 07, 2012, 08:39:38 AM: Wow, nice beaver. I had no idea they go that big.
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Post by: Wacenturion on February 07, 2012, 09:55:01 AM: Quote from: SunnySlopes on February 07, 2012, 08:09:07 AM
I've seen that hog of yours in the museum Wacenturion. Good place for that speciman. I've had two beaver on the scale that went #73. I remember a beaver down at O'Sullivin resevour that was bigger but never made it to a scale.

Yeah that was along time ago. A little history. I trapped that Beaver in either March or April of 1974 on the east side of what is now Steamboat Rock State Park. All the trees that are now fully grown and providing shade were just being planted that spring. That beaver and probably another were taking them out as soon as they were planted in the ground. Caught it on a dead set on the lodge itself just offshore out in the lake. Between the rock, or should I say small boulder (lol) at the end of the line as an anchor, and the Beaver itself, it was nearly impossible to pull up. First beaver I ever trapped. Sometimes you get lucky.
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Post by: SunnySlopes on February 08, 2012, 07:31:30 AM: Glad to know the story on that museum quality beav.
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Post by: Ellensburg on February 09, 2012, 10:43:45 PM: I'll try to find the pictures of my friends 80 pounder. I witnessed it.

Very nice beaver!