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Post by trapnhunt on Mar 25, 2011 8:59:02 GMT -5
For those who are new to trapping beaver, after you target an area where you have trapped a good number of animals, let it rest for a year or two and move on to new locations. Especially if it's not a big area. Even though there maybe some beaver left, you want to let more beaver move in, get comfortable, and breed. By doing this, what you have harvested will be replenished over an amount of time.
This doesn't mean that you cant target other animals in that same area. You can still go back there and target muskrats & mink. Just don't trap out an area and let it rest.
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Post by fuzz269 on Mar 25, 2011 14:35:42 GMT -5
I do it alittle difrent, when I trap most of my collinies I trap them out compleatly. That way the food trees have a chance to grow back and the next set of beavers that move in will have food. But I have an over abundence of beaver in my area, every pond and ditch it seams have a beaver in it.
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Post by wolf1199 on Mar 25, 2011 17:04:31 GMT -5
I take one to two beaver per house. Any house that is along side the road i kill just so that the hunters don,t shoot them. Some rivers i harvest every other year and have a few houses that i never trap, just leave them for seed. If i see that the beaver are putting up cedar and spruce or pine i kill the house. Same goes for low water, kill the house or they will freeze out come winter. So many variables to consider when trapping those flat tails. Get it right and your beaver supply will be there every year. Mind you mother nature can throw a curve ball in there to disrupt your planning. (wolves, bears,low water level) the list is long.
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Post by white316 on Mar 25, 2011 18:54:52 GMT -5
Any beaver colony thats hard to get at,i try to take the 2 adults out and leave it alone,
Any close to the road i take them all.
I never worry about finding beaver.
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Post by gth on Mar 25, 2011 20:07:05 GMT -5
I do it alittle difrent, when I trap most of my collinies I trap them out compleatly. That way the food trees have a chance to grow back and the next set of beavers that move in will have food. Thats what I want to try and do also, avoid the ring of death. |
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Post by fuzz269 on Mar 25, 2011 21:41:07 GMT -5
I do it alittle difrent, when I trap most of my collinies I trap them out compleatly. That way the food trees have a chance to grow back and the next set of beavers that move in will have food. Thats what I want to try and do also, avoid the ring of death. I have a beaver pond right in the middle of my property and I trapped it right out, but every spring I usualy catch 2-5 beaver tryin to move into it. When I first trapped them out they were draggin popler trees almost 100yards back to the water, and were startin to cut spruce trees that were closer. After 3 years the willows and such are finaly makin a come back, a few more years and I should be able to let them move back in for a year or 2. I have also found that in the areas that in areas were I trap them hard and the beavers are startin to be way better beavers as they have enough good food and they are not fightin so muck for teritory. Now if we could just get beaver prices back up to were they should be I would have some better plews lol. To bad the price isnt better I sure love catchin them lol. |
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Post by fuzz269 on Mar 25, 2011 21:46:21 GMT -5
This is just kind of an off topic side not but the old fella who used to trap this area still lives near me, I think he will be 86 this year, he told me he was 12 years old the first time he set traps in the pond on my place, and trapped them there every year till he was in his late into his 60's. That little bit of history always makes me smile when I set one of the old holly Norton dbl long springs I traded off him back in that pond every year, makes me kinda proud to carry on a tradition with those traps in that pond that has bean going on that long.
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Post by white316 on Mar 26, 2011 7:53:19 GMT -5
I have beaver colonys that i trapped for over 25 years.
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Post by trapnhunt on Mar 26, 2011 8:03:24 GMT -5
Although our beaver population has increased very well over the past 15 years, I don't think that we have as many down here in Illinois as you have up north of the border. I still like to practice conservation methods no matter what the populations are.
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Post by white316 on Mar 26, 2011 8:32:12 GMT -5
If you don't manage your beaver they eat everything and leave over time,then there's no food for them to come back to.
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Post by fuzz269 on Mar 26, 2011 11:14:44 GMT -5
Trapinhunt you are right we just do it from difrent directions is all lol, we have to take care of our populations. Whitch can be very difrent from area to area. I might do it your way if I was alittle short of beaver and they still had lots of feed around, but I find here there are so many that they get crowded quickly and start fightin and biten over water that still has feed. I would bet that on my line hunters,well checkers and random people on the back roads with guns probly shoot 100+ beavers a year on me, and it realy doent effect my catch at all. I could catch a heck of a pile more than I care to flesh every spring if I tryed. I usualy trap the road side ones realy hard cause they will just end up shot anyways and then they arnt dammin up culverts and floodin roads, which inturn keeps me in good with the highways mantince crew that then drops off road kill all winter for me to use and wolf and coyote bait. Funny how the anties portray us as tryin to wipe out all the critters but this thread proves that we all do things to insure we will always have beavers around, and actuly worrie about if they have enough food and such lol.
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