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Culvert beaver
#2499672
06/05/18 07:52 AM
06/05/18 07:52 AM
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Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 5,726 Lower AL
k bush
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12 point
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12 point
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Posts: 5,726
Lower AL
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Nothing like a young stupid beaver to make you look good with a first night catch. Hoping the rest of the colony are as gullible as this one. They had a dam inside this 84" culvert. Property owners had fenced it off with wire but they were going under it. I redone the fencing with a cattle panel and tied their fencing to it to block it off. Cut a hole the size of a 330 in the panel over their run. Was hoping they didn't take a stick through the trap when investigating where all of their water went.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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Re: Culvert beaver
[Re: k bush]
#2499788
06/05/18 10:01 AM
06/05/18 10:01 AM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 7,978 South of 20/North of 10
North40R
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Mar 2010
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Everytime I've seen folks try to fence out beavers the fence is turned into a damn. Hope you catch them all before they get square shy.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: Culvert beaver
[Re: k bush]
#2499802
06/05/18 10:21 AM
06/05/18 10:21 AM
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Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 5,726 Lower AL
k bush
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I've got another one back up in a run that leads into it. There's no where to set up a foothold on a downer which is what I wanted. May try a snare in the run if they avoid it.
I'm guessing the females are still denned up with pups ?
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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Re: Culvert beaver
[Re: k bush]
#2501225
06/07/18 09:27 AM
06/07/18 09:27 AM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 7,978 South of 20/North of 10
North40R
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14 point
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You don't have to drown them K. The last job I did was similar, only about a foot of water and beavers would cut a trail around a conibear. I went back and set up on the most used trail entering the ditch with a steel trap on a 60" anchor and caught 3 or 4 in as many nights. This was the setup I'm talking about. I anchored off up on the bank and threw a little mud over the cable going to the trap. Worked like a charm!
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: Culvert beaver
[Re: k bush]
#2501413
06/07/18 01:08 PM
06/07/18 01:08 PM
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Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 5,726 Lower AL
k bush
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Thanks for the info. There's been zero activity since the first night. Further up the branch is a fish pond but there is no new activity around it either. I'm going to walk the branch from the road to the pond this weekend looking for more sign. I know there's got to be more beaver there and I'm betting they're in between the two spots.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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Re: Culvert beaver
[Re: k bush]
#2501690
06/07/18 07:22 PM
06/07/18 07:22 PM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 7,978 South of 20/North of 10
North40R
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As hot as it's been they aren't going to leave the water much. Never do in the summer time. More vegetation in the water for them to feed on and they just get sluggish.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: Culvert beaver
[Re: k bush]
#2506695
06/14/18 12:27 PM
06/14/18 12:27 PM
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Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 5,726 Lower AL
k bush
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12 point
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Snared this one at a fish pond up the branch from the Culvert. They've been in this pond for a while. Lots of girdles trees. Pretty sure this pond is the incubator for all of their problems. There's one bank den in the pond but I'm not fooling with it. Hope they keep using this crossover on the dam, it makes it easier to target them. I set a Bridger #5 in front of the culvert dam and a snare where they are going around a 330 in the run above the road.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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Re: Culvert beaver
[Re: k bush]
#2508934
06/18/18 07:25 AM
06/18/18 07:25 AM
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Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 5,726 Lower AL
k bush
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12 point
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OP
12 point
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Posts: 5,726
Lower AL
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Another big Male at the pond dam this morning, #5 on a drowning cable. No pics, property manager made the check for me today.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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