Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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OK, the conversation in the offset foothold traps for beaver thread has got me curious... Apparently, placing your bait stick in front of your trap can be quite effective in certain scenarios... I would not have ever thought to do this. I think based on some other comments that certain other experienced trappers believe that it is just plain wrong. I have a theory on why it could be effective but I also see a lot of potential for it to cause problems (but I am no expert, so I'll keep them to myself). I also want to make sure everyone was talking about the same thing and that I was understanding correctly, so assuming that the diagram below is an accurate representation of what Beav and Catherine are discussing in that thread, can anyone explain in a bit more detail why it is either the best or worst idea ever? I have always placed the bait stick on the opposite side of the trap...
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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I think we do it the same way, just different colloquial nomenclature. The stick is stuck in the bank to look like a beaver cut it off.
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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Do you place your bait / lure In front of the trap for any type critter? Don't you want to have the animal cross over the trap to investigate the bait/lure? Why would you want the critter to stall out before the trap and satisfy It's curiosity and walk away. Would you place your bait/lure In front of a trap on a leaning pole set? If that type of set up works for you be my guest. I can see using a call lure In relation to a set to draw a critter Into the set location. But not directly in front of the trap.Same with using urine some where in relation to the actual set. But to make a set where the critter won't cross over the trap to investigate that dirt hole or a bait/lure In flat set makes no sense.
Same with a beaver set . Do you place your lure In front of your 330 In castor mound set? Same with using a stick dipped In lure In front of a foot hold. The beaver Is going to investigate that lure and If there Isn't another attraction behind that trap that beaver has no need to cross over the trap to get caught. And If that lure placed In front of that set happens to be a castor based lure that beaver may react to that lure and cover that trap or when using a BG spring It with out getting caught.
Do what works for you but my lure/bait Is going behind the trap.
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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I think we do it the same way, just different colloquial nomenclature. The stick is stuck in the bank to look like a beaver cut it off. I think we do it the same way, just different colloquial nomenclature. The stick is stuck in the bank to look like a beaver cut it off. Just because you place scored up green stick In the bank In FRONT of the trap dosen't mean that beaver Is going to pass over the trap unless you have something behind the trap to draw It's attention. That stick only represents EYE Appeal It may get the beaver to investigate that set but It may not get It to go any farther.
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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I’d put the stick where the shore arrow is pointing at.
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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Your an ejit if you put the bait in front of the trap.
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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I ALWAYS set for a front foot catch. Much less water depth necessary for dispatch. With that set I see a decent amount of back foot catches. I hardly ever set for a front foot catch unless I absolutely know the 'coon aren't about. Small 'coon in large beaver traps don't go down the cable or rod very well. If I'm running on a three-four day check I want to be confident critters are dispatched and not sitting on the bank.
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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I’d put the stick where the shore arrow is pointing at. X2
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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To be clear, I have always been of the same mind as Beav and Law Dog... but hearing about an experienced trapper having success in specific situations got me curious. What if there is something to it? No harm in a polite discussion if we can manage it... maybe we all learn something new..
I am wondering if the idea is that a cautious beaver may circle the stick to check for danger and get caught on re-entry rather than stalling out 2 feet from the bank and convincing itself that no peeled stick is worth dropping a foot near shore.
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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Your an ejit if you put the bait in front of the trap. It pains me to say this but, I agree with boco !!! w
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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Dale billisgley has a beaver dvd that has a good set with a bait stick, as well as Charles Dobbins dvd. Both good beaver dvds
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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Wouldn't have occurred to me to block the trap like that. I don't even use bait for beaver except under ice. Castor and blind sets will get almost all of them. That said, I'm not saying someone hasn['t figured out how to make that work.....
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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What I mean is, some call it in front and some in back. It’s according to where you’re from and how you describe things. Now, I do use the stick up on the bank but use lure too. Usually not the same lure I’d use at a castor mound. I’ve never heard of putting the bait stick out in the water in front of the trap. Maybe I don’t know anything?… “Depress the button to open the latch”. When you press the button it’s depressed, so really, it’s pressed and sitting in the depressed position because it’s counter sunk. We had a huge discussion with a safety officer while he was going over safe work procedures for a new tool. LOL I would say the front of the trap is the anticipated path of approach of the intended target. The English language is nuts!
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Re: Bait stick in front of trap (beaver)
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Good video. Same concept, but I wire a willow sapling to a tree branch leaning over the river so the sapling is just touching the water in a foot of water. Add a dab of lure and firmly bed an MB750 in same position Dale describes with respect to current. Secure trap to drowner cable anchored near shore and out to deep water for dispatch. Set is in working order til it makes a catch.
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