Spooked beaver

Have a nuisance job on a ditch. Beaver have ditch dammed up and were using a small side ditch. Found two spots where they were comming out and chewing on sticks set them with no luck. Made a set with 330 connibear half submerged scraped up the bank a little put a small pile of mud with a little castor on the bank. Next morning came everything tore up trap is about 10 yards from where it was set found the toe of beaver in it. Question is how do i go about catching it now.

Ditch beaver are the easiest to catch.Set a few 330s on the bottom of the ditch and put some dive poles(good size) on top of the water to make him dive-they swim along the deepest part of the ditch right into the trap.Dont even need fencing if you set the trap in the deepest part.Use 5 ft trapstands,or if the water is deeper use a tee-pee set.

A snare or foothold might be the best option for a trap shy beaver.

I open the dam in the a.m. and come back at last light to shoot the smart ones.

Bingo




Please elaborate

Dam break set as shown in Pauls "Beaver Sites and Sets" dvd………..SURELY you had a loved 1 get it for you last Christmas.

ANY blind set without lure will get it, even if you make the slide or trail.

where the cross sticks are long and cross at the top, yet stabilize the 330 in deep water. You can also weld extensions on a standard 4' H-stand.

or hang snares on trails or floating log sets

This is a tee pee set trap for use in deep water runs,den entrances etc.Good for open water or under ice.

It'd be interesting to see specs on how to make a floating log set.

Thank you.


How are you anchoring it to prevent trap/catch from sliding off? Running cable to the top of the teepee?

To construct,you wire the two dry poles together at the top,then slide the trap on from the bottom.Use a safety gripper on the set trap or wire the jaws temporarily.Once you have the set trap in position on the poles,run a wire across the bottom between the two poles.Make sure the wire is tight,as this is what holds the trap solid.This also prevents the catch from coming off the polesYou can place the springs out to the side or fold them up tight to the poles,depending if you are setting one trap in a run or more than one side by side.If setting in open water you can run a wire from the top of the tee pee to anchor,or if the bottom is hard,you can use another pole from the top of the tee pee back to the house,or in the case of a culvert to the bank to stabilize the set.
Of course when set thru a hole in the ice,it is only necessary to run a safety pole between the tee pee poles in case a catch is made before it re-freezes in.
If you are setting a lot of these type of sets in a day,like when under ice beaver trapping at the house,you can set the traps on the poles before heading out because all will be set on bottom,and use a little twist of wire to hold the traps set.We generally use the 5 foot metal trapstands for this application.
One place where the tee pee poles are better than the metal trapstands is when setting a culvert,as the trap can be positioned on the poles solidly at any height from bottom.