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Beaver Trapping


leechmann

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Awesome...Thanks Leechman. After looking at your pix and the very detailed illustrations I think I will tackle this job myself....after I catch your fleshing pix and details first. Don't want to get ahead of myself. ha

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Caught a couple more beavers yesterday. Size wise they are nothing to be proud of, but thats what I caught.

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Hey Leech, are you strictly beaver trapping now or do you run other lines also? Just wondering, Spit.

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I'm not sure which way to go in the trapping world this year. I started out real late because the pheasant hunting in ND was so good. When I got back,I put a fox, coyote line out, with a friend, and ran it for about a week. Hardly anything moving during that week, so I decided to try a beaver line. Now I started fishing yesterday, caught 3 walleyes, missed a few more. I'm trying to decided if I should set out another fox line in a different area. I'm thinking thats what I'm going to do, just waiting for the right time. There's the long answer to that question.

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Leechman...thank you very much for doing this little show and tell session...very informative. I've caught lots of beavers in the fall and spring in open water but have never tackeled the ice trapping. I love the teepee set...I have a beaver hut less than a mile from my house that I may try that on in the next couple weeks. So when you chip out all that ice is it just with a chipper or do you use anything else? That's gotta be quite the job if you have multiple sets eh? I've seen people cut holes with chain saws before...do you recommend that? Is finding the run the hardest part? Seems like once you narrow that down the rest is easy.

Thanks again! Look forward to seeing more!

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Thanks Shoot, Actually you will be suprised at how little ice you have to chop out. Yes, I only use an ice chisle, but when you find a hot beaver run, you will only have to hit the ice, maybe 2 times and you are through it. Usually in a hot run, once you break through, all sorts of air comes shotting out, like a geyser. Then you know your onto something. Once you remove the ice, then drop the chisle down to the bottom. Most of the time the bottom is really hard, and you can feel the sand with the chisle. Thats one more clue that you are onto something. Then I usually jump in the hole with my waders on. This is where my buddies think I snapped. But the wader thing is the best way to feel the runs, using your legs. After you locate the runs, makes some marks on top of the ice, so when you catch a beaver and pull the trap out, you will know where to locate the trap when you reset. When you have years like this, with early snow, I would be suprised if there is more than 2 inches of ice in the hot beaver runs. Give it a try, let me know how you do, ask more questions if you need too. Good luck, Leech

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That makes sense about the ice Leech...actually now as I read back through this all again, you said that.... smile.gif The thin ice makes sense that I would be in relatively the right spot. And now that I think about the hut by my house I know exactly where them little buggers are running...I was walking the cat tails around the pond the other day for roosters and noticed a big disturbance in the ice right next to about a dozen freshly chewed on trees. smile.gif I've got the next 2 weekends booked...after that I'm putting in a few 330s to see what happens...they'll still be there...nobody else is going to mess with them. I'm excited about this....if I get lucky now I won't have to wait till spring to smell that sweet sweet castor gland aroma again. grin.gif

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All the beaver fleshing pictures and descriptions were lost when the website was down. If anyone needs these to be posted again, let me know, otherwise I will let it ride.

Thanks, Leech

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I take them off Fur Taker. Thats the last thing I do to the hide when I'm stretching it on the board. If you don't cut them off, they don't dry properly. Then your pile of fur smells like its rotting. They don't measure the head when they are sizing your hide, so don't worry about losing some square inches.

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the way that leechman described can take alot of beaver and fast all these were taken in one check with the same method

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I think this is resized but I dont know for sureit should be 320x240

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