KYBOY, that must really suck. We've got it good here. Waterways belong to the state and trapping is permitted up to the high water mark on all navigable streams here. I haven't asked permission to trap beaver in over 30 years.

yea man it gets old.. I hate to complain, its a rural aeea and most folks still appreciate trappers and our state has been pretty good to trappers as far as trapping laws go but dang I sure wish we had more public ground to trap..chasing down property owners takes soooo much time

Gotta ask permission at 100% of what I trap. Just part of trapping

In the old days, permissions were tied up by all the money making trappers. Count your blessings.

Gotta make them chase you!

thats where I get most of mine from but your absolutely right.. With beaver thats the best way.... Everyone around here wants Yotes trapped, shame i dont care for yote trapping Though I often do it just so they will let me trap for everything else

Im.sorry again, to see my prediction come true.

25.00 nose count so it's still going strong right now.

Averaged over 35 USD on fall beavers at FHA two weekends ago. Shearing type were much higher.

I haven’t seen where beaver prices have pulled back.

Beaver has a long way to go yet with the blacks taking over country music-prices still rising each auction on the beaver with underfur.The June sale will tell a lot.With felters vying for the hvy and semi sections that will push the top end beaver up toward 80cd.if the garmenters want to get them again.Should be some nice high end fur on the june sale.
I have some more on that sale to know where my section of beaver are going.
Also plan to harvest some for a month or so until they start to shed in may.Shedders have thin underfur.
That is my take on it for now.

Wish I could have got some of my sectihoon beaver on one of the sales. Overall i'm happy with my country prices though. I averaged around $36.

Just like trapping beaver but do not got to skin for 50$ a good thing

Ain't hearing or seeing a whole lotta talk or writings about a big increase in heavy shearable beaver demand. Did I miss it while trying to follow the hatter market?

I think the bigger shearable types might have got a $5-$10 premium over hatter prices from what I could see from auction results.

Is that because they were bigger heavily underfurred pelts for the felt market or to be used for garments.

Quite the contrary

SW there is a shearing market out there, how large it is is another question

I never heard any notable prices out of the truck early on. Things started heating up at state sales and seemed to continue as the season progressed before the plateau at FHA. So far this year has been a rising market where patience paid off and panic didn’t. It’s only money.

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I'm thinking Boco is spot on this^^^