Tips on Beaver Cage Trapping with Comstock Cages, Top Setting

Beaver swim on top as much as they do on the bottom of runs, perhaps more.  When setting runs top sets are no less effective than bottom sets.  This can be accomplished with snares, body grippers and even cage traps.  The beauty in the Comstock Cages is that they can be set up on long T-bars or wired to vertical poles with the top of the trap running even with the surface of the water.  Because the traps are set upside down, poles can be slid horizontally through the cages to support the cages on top in narrow runs, poles running bank to bank or supported with forked sticks.  With the mechanism on the bottom of the traps, poles and or grass etc. can be stuffed into the wire framing to hide and support  without interfering with the operation of at the trap in any way.  Triggers are unimpeded and doors will close and lock as they should.