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Post by longtrail on Feb 1, 2009 12:00:42 GMT -5
Was engaged in some friendly conversation with Cody, and he asked about how we trap in deep water. This is a pole set up I learned from the old Montana State trapper, Fuller Laugerman, who ran Montana Big Sky Lures for years. This is a poleset we used when snaring beaver under the ice on the bends of the river. The length of the pole depended on the depth of the river, but there were usually at least four snares per pole. The "lure" we used was freshly cut cotton wood branches, cut into pieces and attached by wire to the pole. We'd take a hatchet and cut pieces so the smell of the cottonwood would be in the water around the snares. The visual effect was there, too, the freshly exposed inner wood is whiter than the bark. The snares are attached to heavy wire, like that of smooth wire fencing, then the snare was positoned and the snare it self hel open with very fine copper wire, like that of inside electrical wiring. The snares were set, adjusted and the pole lowered into the hole chopped into the ice. The top of the pole was wired to a piece of wood much wider than the hole so the pole could not be pulled beneath the ice. We had a lot of luck with it. Almost every time we set it we had a beaver in it.
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