What is everyone's go to for catching nuisance summer beaver?

No go toos for summer beaver control,,,,

If it is too hot,,,, beaver don't move much......
If they had had pressure,,,,,they will be smart.....

Wood chipper and blackberry cuts do well..........
blind set,,,,but you can catch non target

Den sets,,,,,,,

Dam break with "breasting stick" like in Pauls videos

Both Summertime Beaver Control and Beaver Sites and Sets are great vids and shortened my learning curve immensely.

I have generally never had a problem with summer beaver but this is a 90 acre lake that i caught beaver on in the past, but they are seeing one beaver swimming around every now and then but there is no sign and as far as I can tell he doesn't leave the water... least not often.

Is a good birch pole set out of question?

#4 Buck....

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I have had better luck with No. 1 buck if your serious. Keep the shot 25 yards or less.

its illegal to shoot/hunt beaver in mo plus its in a crowded rich subdivision . Im sure ill catch him i was just picking some of yalls brains

You said crowded rich sub made me think maybe it's a muskrat there seeing . Fact and truth can be hard to get second hand . Normally A lone beaver or batchelef beaver doesn't leave much sign or work very hard keeping house or food stores he's living in a old bank den or lodge just being lazy . I guess the big Question is if he's not even leaving a foot print on shore how would the animal be causing damage and why even trap him or shoot him . People don't like animals I would refuse the job myself I draw the line you got to show me or telling something the animal is doing to cause damage just because it's a animal isn't reason enough or legal under my damage control permit . That said if he was causing some damage he must be cursing along the shore line tight to the bank so a few well hung snares should get it done beaver like to run along the banks tight to the banks if it's not to shallow of water .

"its illegal to shoot/hunt beaver in mo"

Often times you can throw fur trapping regs out the window when your dealing with a nussiance wildlife problem

Throw away regs?..doesn't seem feasible.......or a good idea. But what do I know I follow regulations to the T..or dotted I.....

In other words often times CO s will allow you to do what needs to be done to solve the problem. That does not mean setting 330s on land but you might get by with breaking a dam or setting colony traps for squirrel when it is normally a no go.