So I made an off hand comment I have to back up. Went and got some PINK spray paint and painted 4 330's up to go trap a beaver or two in.


Set up a beaver house that probably holds 2-2 1/2 year old beaver in it. Will check it when we get all the traps out again...hopefully Friday.


Also some questions on how we trap. Most of the area we trap has a lot of lakes in it. Go to the lakes, find the beaver houses and set all the runs comming out of the house. We use a deep water stabalizer to make it quick and easy to stake. We have developed out own style of stabalizer to make it quciker and we do not have to use wire to tie them off.
You can see the first picture how the traps sit in the stabalizers, those traps are ready to be set, just need to take the safeties off.
A friend custom made mstabalizers to my liking and they work...well too well! Most stabalizers do not let you put the dog on the bottom beacue there is not enough room for it to fire on a 10" trap. So I had extra space put under the trap. The keeps the dog/triggers on the bottom so there is less fur damage. The beaver are also swimming closer to the bottom, so it takes less movement of the trigger to fire.

On top, instead of the tiny opening I had him weld D rings, so I could put a snap link there.


Entension cable is hooked onto the same snap link, and staked to a sturdy stick that is not going anywhere.


A bunch of people were asking why I liked a lighter colored trap. When trapping this way, you can see your trap underwater and know weather or not it is fired by just a glance, instead of pulling the whole works up.


There are two main reasons we trap this way.
#1 is the area we trap has a lot of competition. We can get in and out of an area in 2 checks and take most of the beaver in a colony. There is no way to backset this, as the beaver will have to come out of the hut before they work anyone elses sets. We can also carry in just a few traps, and take the majoriy of the beaver instead of having many sets.
#2 We live in Minnesota. Ice forms whenever it wants. These sets will work when there is no ice, or 3' of ice.

If you set enough of these you can do the following.

very nice. i will be adding some d rings to my stabilizers. thanks for taking the time. now get back to skinning.

oh...can someone add the title "pink Trapper" to these guys names?

Thats a nice pile of fur but dont know about the pink traps...

my back hurts just looking at those pics

Now you duned gone gived away all the secrets. Thanks a ton, looks like you guys are killin it again this fall, way to go.

Excellent Post!

Those pink belisles look goofy!! Hahah, NO doubt they'll whack and stack like the rest of your equipment!!

Good Luck to you guys, looks like fun.

Since we have zero lakes in my area, beavers use 100% bank dens, probably could use the same concept if you found their den entrances I assume?

Gave away all my secrets....Hah! Pink traps and tall stablizers are easy. The work is hard part. Getting to the hut and then carrying the beaver out are more work than about anyone wants to do!

nice catch post some pics of the beavers you catch in the pink traps

Don't laugh. My girl wont deer hunt without her Pink Rifle.. Must be nice workin for Fisheries you know where all the beav are!! Nice rig boys..

I know this is a retarded question but where did you get the idea for the pink conis? On the vids I have watched all I hear about is camoing your traps and such.

Awesome catches, boys! I'm wonderin' if you might start wearing pink hats to go along with those traps.

I can just picture the territory you're trapping, and it makes every part of my body ACHE to think of it.

Marble,

Those stabilizers are GENIUS!!! I'm saving those pics and I 'm going to make a few.


You should be selling those at conventions.

The coolest thing is that you can pull a beaver + the trap out and slide a new 330 down the sabilizer and go.


Good job.

man you boys got it figured out awsome job!!!

When you guys get the mink, rats and otters, did you set seperately for those, or did they all come off of lodge runs?

Pink 330 results? Probably only get females...need some blue ones for the males.

KICK ARSE!!!! Nice pics. That is a PILE of fur. Like the setup and how you run them!

Just like the blue coon buckets MnMan.

Great post
Thanks for shareing.

haha like the traps, and good results