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Post by paskinner on Jan 9, 2010 23:54:07 GMT -5
Got skunked yesterday and just one rat today. Pulling muskrat traps tomorrow. Last day of that season. But I'll still have a few beaver sets.
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Post by paskinner on Jan 10, 2010 20:04:26 GMT -5
No rats on the last day, but I got this beaver in the same spot as the last one This is how I rig my snares. Only about an 8 inch loop. Gets the conibear shy beaver and the dumb ones too.
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jan 10, 2010 21:53:08 GMT -5
I got skunked today too we dont have but 6 out were kind of waiting for deer season to get over but Zack shot a coon squrril hunting and its fleshed and in the tannin and the meat just came out of the oven ,also cooked the hat off the hide down and later will mix it with some beeswax for patch lube.A friend of my oldest son is giving me two otter he shot ,sure we'll make something out of them .
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Post by paskinner on Jan 13, 2010 10:40:23 GMT -5
Well, I've had two interesting catches the last two days. Yesterday, I caught a small beaver in a conibear while I was there. I pulled the trap up and he blinked at me. I think I scared him into the trap. Couldn't have been in there long-it was a Belishe trap and they close really tightly. Today, I had a medium beaver by the front foot in that same conibear, drowned of course. I've done that one other time. I'm not sure how they get caught that way.
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Post by two bit on Jan 14, 2010 0:04:05 GMT -5
ive found out that if you have one a spillway and they try to fix it the twigs will make the trap go off early and catch them that way but it is frozen where you are so i dont know how that would work out
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Post by paskinner on Jan 14, 2010 13:16:24 GMT -5
Yeah, this set was alongside the foodpile. Do they put in foodpiles there at all? We're on a warming trend, going to above freezing during the day here for a few days. Should get them moving, but we were just getting enough ice to walk on. That's the way it goes...
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Post by paskinner on Jan 30, 2010 18:40:11 GMT -5
Well, I'm still at it. Earlier this week, we had open water and flooding, and I got a big one at a castor set in a snare. Now, the temps are down in the teens, below zero yesterday morning and it's finally making some ice in spite of the snow. Pictures from this morning: This is the lodge I just set up yesterday, on the marsh. Got one in a baited conibear. This set is real simple, you wire bait inside one bottom jaw, set the trigger to the side and just hang the trap under the ice. This one froze into the ice and I had to do some chopping to get him out. Red fox tracks on the ice, right nearby. Maybe I'll make set for him, too. Red fox pee gets really potent this time of year. Yesterday, I smelled fox before I ever noticed the tracks, and sure enough, he'd peed on an ant hill about ten feet away. Can't imagine how far away a fox can smell that, compared to my pathetic nose.
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jan 31, 2010 20:12:32 GMT -5
Looks good PA ,allways wanted to trap under the ice but havent had the chance.We skinned 4 today somebody dropped of for us and two otter .Plan to set some out soon.
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Post by paskinner on Mar 21, 2010 17:51:09 GMT -5
Our beaver season runs until the end of March. Here's one from this last week-castor set with a snare. Set up a new place and got another one today. I think this one made 20 beaver this season, not a one in a "regular" trap yet-all snares and conis, but I do have two castor sets out with footholds, so I'm hoping to have at least one that way.
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Post by paskinner on Mar 21, 2010 17:55:03 GMT -5
Here's the set that took one today.
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Post by paskinner on Mar 22, 2010 9:42:59 GMT -5
Well, got two today- one in a foothold. My drowning rig didn't exactly work. ;D This is a huge beaver dam. That thing is taller than me. Hope I'm not boring ya all too much. Who wants to volunteer to flesh them? That has to be my least favorite part of beaver trapping.
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Post by two bit on Mar 22, 2010 14:37:36 GMT -5
Your not boring me man im enjoying it, The weather is messing with us to much to go beaver trapping....you have some pretty big beavers and dams there.
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Post by joanne2 on Mar 22, 2010 19:37:13 GMT -5
Guy just brought me this beaver already skinned and wanted me to flesh it.. then shave it if I would but I'm not sure what I should be charging the guy to do this.. pretty easy doins with the powerwasher and then salting and then shaving on the machine..says he may have a LOT more. I only charged him $5 to flesh it and well haven 't figured out what to ask for thinning them down..surely the tools to do it right quick are rather PRICEY! coupla pics. It's still a little bit damp. Guy thought that after fleshing it should be stretched but to send them to the tannery I'm thinking they'd be fine just fleshed and salted and MOstly if not all dried out, salted. This the way to go? Seems like it to me,,just not sure what I should be making for doing this work. What sounds like a fair price to you PA? btw,,, nice catches!! congrats.. hahaha, was detailing the face in the kitchen the other day and my son walked in the room and asked what smelled like tuna fish?? lol..
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Post by two bit on Mar 22, 2010 21:27:23 GMT -5
Well good luck
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Mar 23, 2010 0:52:15 GMT -5
Like the way you hung that snare .Finally got one in a trap! I love snareing beaver they are so light for those long trips into those hard plases .Like that big dam ,Zack and me had one a few years ago that big and we busted a little place in it and shot it in our little boat it was a thrill for sure ,had to do it again the next day
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