In the past 13 days we caught 35 beaver, mostly in a night or two, while trapping a few hours a day. One job produced 9 in two nights. I was lucky enough to find 3 different locations with super cut offs on stream colonies that so far were responsible for 10 of he catches and cleaning the locations. In the last location, some 3 weeks plus into the regular fur season after someone had been trapping there presumably for most or all of the season, we picked up three large beaver first night, including a beaver missing a toe with estimated weight of 55 pounds. The scale said 54.5, close enough. All of the beaver were taken in cages as is usually the case, placing the season average at 93.7% caged beaver. The first 43 of 44 were all caged this year and the last 39 of 40 were caged.
The cages were used in a variety of ways, cut off channels, castor sets, a culvert, dam breaks, bottom edge, front doors etc., set shallow and set deep, with almost limitless ways to set them.
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