Got my beaver traps fired up Friday evening down on the slough and surprisingly had succcess. There is a big lodge that has been there for 20+ years and it has three channels coming out of it. The water is pretty low right now, so the channels are relatively narrow and pretty shallow, deepest being about knee deep.
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This is the shallowest set
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These two are a little deeper, so I set a cinder block at the bottom of the channel to set the trap on, then put up my barricades to direct them into the traps.
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Saturday morning I got this little guy, juvenile male. I skinned him out and was surprised how easy it was to skin. I had always heard horror stories about how hard they were to skin, but he did great, no holes and was not that offensive of an odor. When it came to fleshing him, that's when it turned into a nightmare. I don't know if I didn't have the right tools, or I just sucked, but that's when I started poking holes in the hide. Finally I just said screw it and hung him on a fence post.
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Check the traps this morning and I had this big fat boy. He was a brute. Going to skin him out later.
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I saved the castor glands from the first one and will save them from #2 to make some lure for when trapping in other areas on castor mound sets.
Also got a few little pigs in the pig traps yesterday morning.
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I felt like a regular Jeremiah Johnson this weekend. If any of ya'll have any tips on tanning and fleshing a beaver (insert joke here), let me know, I am all ears.
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This is the shallowest set
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These two are a little deeper, so I set a cinder block at the bottom of the channel to set the trap on, then put up my barricades to direct them into the traps.
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Saturday morning I got this little guy, juvenile male. I skinned him out and was surprised how easy it was to skin. I had always heard horror stories about how hard they were to skin, but he did great, no holes and was not that offensive of an odor. When it came to fleshing him, that's when it turned into a nightmare. I don't know if I didn't have the right tools, or I just sucked, but that's when I started poking holes in the hide. Finally I just said screw it and hung him on a fence post.
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Check the traps this morning and I had this big fat boy. He was a brute. Going to skin him out later.
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I saved the castor glands from the first one and will save them from #2 to make some lure for when trapping in other areas on castor mound sets.
Also got a few little pigs in the pig traps yesterday morning.
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I felt like a regular Jeremiah Johnson this weekend. If any of ya'll have any tips on tanning and fleshing a beaver (insert joke here), let me know, I am all ears.