If you are doing this by yourself get one of those J Hook Trap Setters and hang it through the D ring on the front of your waders. If you ever get caught in one you will thank me you can take enough pressure off to pull your arm out.

Find the beaver run and put the trap in the run with a dive stick. Look for choke points where they can't easily go around. such as.... Appears to be a narrow ditch in that 3rd picture. That's Beaver stew right there. I would tell you to block the sides with some sticks like the top of a small bush stuck into the side of that ditch bank, 330 right in the middle of that little depression/ditch.... and put it right there on dry ground (but that would be technically illegal right?). You just need to disguise it a little bit so it doesn't look like a square I might stick a little piece of cane or grass on the jaw but don't over do it since there is no existing vegetation there. You will have a beaver laying there dead when you return.

Just don't do that because I would never advise someone to break the law with a dry ground set OR to use a snare right there which work really good too. There are videos on Youtube that show how to snare a beaver on dry land also illegal in Alabama.

Alabama. Where it is Illegal to use snares but not marry your sister.

J-hook and Safety pin on the way.

I've got one just like you suggest in that spot in he third picture, coming out of the creek. Sticks around the trap and dive stick on top. Set another one in the slide about 20 feet from where the water starts in the 2nd picture between some privet and a sycamore, it brushed in real good. We had that big flood up here ten days ago and that left tons of dead sticks in this area so it blends in real well.

Got clearance from local warden on where I was setting the traps and he gave me the all clear.

After the flood haven't seen them as regular on the cameras since then. They'll be back.

I wouldn't fool with a 330 no matter how bad I wanted him gone. I'd pay someone before I did that. They're just so dangerous.

Yes a beaver can slap tear you up quickly

Success. It went about 40 lbs.



I think the set in the creek ended up being too shallow so I moved it a hair deeper. I've got at least one more around. Also there is a big river otter who does seem wise to the traps, I'm ok with it slipping away since I am solely after the beavers due to the water damage they are causing.

Jeff foxworthy tells a story of a beaver biting off a man's nipple.

Nice work! I need to get back to the camp and reset my 330’s. There are about 4-5 beavers in the pond. Some of them are little ones. They don’t seem to be interested in a caster lure.

2nd one. This one went about 25 lbs. Glad I adjusted the creek trap. It went around the other trap further up the run where i got the 1st one. Water was too deep to reset the creek trap; didnt have my waders and it rained a bit more than I expected last night.

Nice

Many on here talk bad about a 330 but with time on your side, meaning you aren't making money just trapping your own place, eventually you will kill every single beaver there. To me they are the most simple and effective thing you can use. With a little imagination on making the set even the smartest one will eventually get pinched. I've put dive sticks out ahead of time just to get one use to swimming under it.