in my opinion beaver are the easiest animal to catch

if your comparing beaver and coyotes that are both "uneducated" and haven't been harassed, then i'd say it's simpler to catch the beaver. neither are difficult, but water sets are much simpler.

crobarr- water sets for beaver are simpler than hanging a snare for a coyote?

Beaver are hard to catch on dry land, and coyotes are hard to catch in the water!lol

leave to adc to bring in the "snare scenario" lol

I catch all my Coyotes in Bottomlines pen!!! They are pretty easy. Most of my beaver I catch out of the back of his truck while he is at work!!!!

lol sean....

yes. a beaver snare doesn't have to be set as exactingly as a yote snare. heck, i bet it takes me a good 10-15 seconds longer to set a yote snare. LOL!!!

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Coyote, beaver can be just as hard, except for the fact they usually don't have the long range coyotes do. Sometimes coyotes don't come through but about every two weeks, it's hard to keep a trap in good working ore=der that long around here.

LMAO, I can see ol' captain peg leg bucktooth slippin out your foothold every time, nothin to hold onto.


too hard to answer, for me beaver around here because there are not that many and the areas they are in are very hard to trap due to water levels flucuating overnight sometimes 15 feet.

We had a beaver pond on our land for 20 yrs and they just kept expanding til we couldn't even bush hog our meadow and they flood a hardwood bottom killing some of the trees.

My dad declared war on them. He had never set a trap in his life and he cleaned EVERYONE of them out, All in 330s! He caught around 15.

We have had two come up the creek trying to retake the pond and he caught those two also. We are now beaver free for the first time in over 20yrs

Going by this experience I would say coyotes are harder.

I think it just depends on which ever you have spent more time on and learned more about.

my experience with coyotes is limited, "on purpose".

but, trying to catch a trap shy/wise beaver is a humbling, aggrevating, hair pulling, lesson in humility. either catch them on the first or second night or you're in for some long days. i'm sure there is nothing more frustrating than dealing with one of these characters.

the grump.