Got Beaver?
 

Got beaver? Post them up!

After spending the month of April chasing muskrats, I tried my hand at trapping a few problem beaver for several local landowners. I started out shooting a few at sunset when I was still trapping rats but once I pulled my float sets, I set out a few 330's. Things started slow for me but with the advice/guidance from "The Spruce" and a couple other experienced Trappers, I started to have some success.

I was thrilled to shoot a big 56 pound beaver, which sunk and I had to recover the next day when it floated back up, but it didn't take me long to better that weight in one of my 330 sets. Here's a picture of a few beaver that I recently caught including a 59 pound monster, my biggest so far.

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Good job on the furry lumberjacks , Dave . First year in memory that I havent had any in my area to trap and thats not a bad thing .

Here is a couple i caught the other week.
 

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Sell
 

Any one want to sell their carcases?

Are you still hunting bear up in Fort Mac? I have about a dozen in my freezer and I could spare a couple if you are really stuck but I'm just north of Edmonton.

Ya I am up in fort mac but i did have a guy write me that he has some up here just waiting for him to respond back to me. Thanks tho

AO member "mark-edmonton" lives up there and traps a line there. I don't know if he has any beaver but it's worth a try contacting him. Good luck!

Those are some nice beavers

60 lb beavers, cool. I have never seen one that big one cruising the back woods dams where i hunt moose.

A few weeks ago I chatted with the County Trapper and he told me that he caught one that was 80 pounds! :eek:

Sheesh thats alot of beaver:thinking-006:

http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/attac...1&d=1433535946


This beauty wieghed in at 65bls. Her mate, which I got the week prior, came in at 62. They were knocking a lot of wind break down.

Here is a big female I caught. Did not weight it but it measured 44 inches long. She was a pinto with a white belly and some pink on her feet.