Beavers dive deep?
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Curious your thought on setting beaver traps. Do you think beavers mostly stay at or near the surface? Understandably water can get pretty deep upstreams from dams. Sometimes so deep that setting BG's is tough.
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Re: Beavers dive deep?
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If they are using the bottom set on the bottom.Dont matter how deep the water is.
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Re: Beavers dive deep?
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If you find a channel or run It's because the beaver Is swimming along the bottom. Or like Boco likes to say they are walking on the bottom.
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Re: Beavers dive deep?
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A question for you AJE? How do you keep track of all the answers to all your questions? It must be a overwhelming task. LOL
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Re: Beavers dive deep?
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My deepest set has been 7 feet down. And I caught 3 beavers in it 2 kits and a 55lbs female
A channel between two ponds.
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If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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Re: Beavers dive deep?
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How do you set a trap '7 feet down? 4' stabalizer, 2' of arm, then there is only 1' left to drop it in place.
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I disagree with most of you. If the run is deep I set the 330 half submerged on the surface, suspended with a stick through the spring eyes. It's a whole lot easier for me. Just because the run is deep doesn't mean they are always swimming on the bottom. Sometimes I put some lure on the bank nearby to help keep them on the surface too. I've caught countless beaver this way.
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Re: Beavers dive deep?
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The tee pee set is good for setting deep culverts even when the bottom of the culvert is a foot or more off the bottom.You can raise the trap on the poles then tighten the wire to hold it solid right at the bottom of the culvert where the beaver will be swimming.Takes a bit of feeling around with a pole to guage the proper depth for the trap. These deep culverts are easy to find after freeze up as there will be a bit of open water where the culvert is, due to current. Paul Millette from Hearst spent some time teaching trappers in the northern states how to use the tee pee sets to take beaver under ice at den entrances in winter.Some of the older beaver trappers from Minnesota remember when Paul was there.I believe it was in the 70's sometime,maybe even earlier.
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How do you set a trap '7 feet down? I use a single stick through the eyes of the spring and the trap sideways.
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If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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About time some one stated the easy set up. Spot on Michigan trappin. Some people just have to do things the hard way. LOL I always figured If there was a grove In the bottom It was made by the beaver so that's where I place the trap. But Like Goldy said that set up will also work.
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I know muskrats spend a lot more time jetting along the bottom than they do on the surface. I don't know if beaver are similar, but I'd be curious to know.
I would guess that when a beaver really wants to get somewhere they jet along the bottom. The few times I've seen them under a few feet of water they were moving remarkably fast; much faster than they travel on the surface.
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Beaver move slow and deliberately at the den entrance,they will try and clear the run of any obstruction and if they cant move it,and it is blocking their way,like a beaver in a trap,they will walk around it in a wide run or over it in a narrow run,that is why you need a stable trap,and why you can set 3 or 4 traps or more side by side and/or in series to catch multiple beavers in the same entrance.Unstable traps on one pole results in fired empty traps or one beaver fouling several traps.Trigger placement is also crucial to avoid fired empty traps because of the beavers habit of trying to clear the run as well as for checking traps under the ice.
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So were now back to saying that beaver walk around on the bottom of the pond. I've watched a lot of animal Planet flicks on beaver and I have yet to see a beaver tip toeing along the bottom. They may be pushing off as they swim but they aren't walking.
I've used the teepee method and yes It works well but a single pole with the bottom of the trap In the channel will also work. And If you want to shove 2 sticks In to the bottom and then let the body grip slide down that will also work. Then all you have to do Is use your hook to pull up the trap and your catch. Or just use those extended H stands Like shown In the winter picture. If It's to short just zip tie a couple of poles to the stand to make it longer and shove It In place.
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