MY FAVORITE BEAVER SET.

[Bogmaster]

 My favorite set for beaver---hands down ,is the Castor mound set.I have used it with footholds,snares and bodygrippers.
 The 330 is my choice of traps with this set.It is more adaptable than snares or footholds---and I do not have to mess with drowning weights and slidewires.
To me it is--the go anywhere set.
 Tom

[RdFx]

Yeppers i would have to agree with Boggy on his set with open water.  Except when you get a square shy beaver then you have to use footholds or snares.  Footholds arent hard to use but alot of trappers dont use them for bvr  so do miss the smart ones at times if your doing ADC work... Some of you  young or first time bvr trappers  post your  experiences and pics too, we all can learn from each other....

[four coil]

Since I don't have a favorite beaver set yet. I can say for sure it won't involve wearing funny things on my feet so I don't sink up to my thighs in snow, or involve the use of a chainsaw to access the water.
Shawn

[RdFx]

AAaawww your missing all the fun  when you fall thru  river ice with snowshoes on (GULP) or put your Tundra thru the ice  into a river!!   What fun with chain saw too, i wear a bib rainsuit for that but am going to  try a  deflector under chain to force water and ice straight down onto ice  as im cutting...   hope it works...  you should see me out on the  bvr ponds in my bright yellow bibs... LOL...  wonder what  Liver Eating Johnson would of thought of something like that...

[Bogmaster]

 Lee,when all you use is 330's,you have to learn to adapt.
 Many of those(square shy) beaver get caught in--you guessed it-----330's.Even if a beaver knows and avoids my half submerged 330's--they still come to check them out.That is when I add the totally submerged bodygrippers.I relure all my sets that the beaver has come to know--then set hidden traps in approach ways .
 It is my belief that there isn't a beaver alive that cannot be caught in a 330.A trapper just has to be one step ahead of them.Now I am not saying success comes immediately--but it will if you persist,adapt---and have total confidence in the sets you make.
 I do not do summer time beaver removal--so I am not in an area for weeks on end.If I lose round one right now--I will win on round 2 .
 Tom

[MacinMaine]

Good posts
mac