I don't find alot of 2 hole houses, but when I do, I always double set it. Perhaps with a #1 Stop Loss and The other hole with a 110 conibear.
In the Manitoba Trapping Guide it states:
No Trapper shall break, probe or destroy a muskrat or beaver lodge. The same rules apply for a beaver dam.
Up here the DNR officer's are pretty flex on that rule because it's the best set to catch beaver. I can understand it being illegal to break in to a beaver lodge, you'd break such a big hole that it'd freeze em out possibly. We have to realize that some laws are really stupid, and that they can be broken. If you absoultly don't want to break in to the house.
Clean the snow off around the house, find out where the runs are then cut a hole in the ice, and mount a 110 on a stick and poke it down there diagonal of the run, if you understand me.
It is pretty hard to trap them outside the house in winter.
REGULATION UPDATED (2011-2012 Trapping Season):
Spear, probe, break or destroy a muskrat house, beaver lodge or beaver dam without authorization from the Minister of Conservation. A licensed trapper may probe or open a muskrat house in season for the purpose of trapping providing it is closed so the water entrance does not freeze.
Last edited by TheFurTrapper; 07/25/12 10:49 PM. Reason: Regulations Update