I Trapped a MASSIVE Dam With Footholds (Huge Beavers)

[@bobpowers6239]

Yes I enjoy all of your videos

[@stillwater62]

A couple of portable pockets would get those beaver in there pronto. The portable pocket would be your anchor stake on the bank. If no one has been messing with those beaver, they will not be spooked by a trap snapping close to them. I much prefer blind setting for beaver at first, no lure, nothing to get them all bothered. I start out well away from the den or lodge and work my way in usually taking the adults far out and the juveniles closer to the den and NOT spooking them. Most of the time I can clean out a pond but sometimes there are the occasional hardcore combat veterans that have seen it all and done it all, so I leave them for seed unless I need to clean them all out and that is a different ball game, then. Great videos, you are a master with the camera. Thanks for going to all of the trouble of making them.

[@nateschmidt4396]

Good spring trapping season, thanks for taking us along!

[@myoutdoorlife3833]

Awesome catches! 👍

[@bertram_oredrock]

Excellent video in content and narration. We appreciate you explaining where and How you're catching big beavers!

[@russelrogers2540]

On the castor set, sink some dead sticks vertically on the pond side of the trap. A beaver will hit the sticks with it's chest and drop it's feet to find the bottom. This will help to keep them from springing traps with their chest. You might need to slant the sticks away from the trap, if the bottom is very soft. The idea is to get the feet down before they hit the trap.

[@WestTennessee]

Good catch! Two more big beavers! 👍🏻😎

[@judithdandavis2206]

we have got to try that lure out . castor mounds are deadly .

[@MarkJLarsonOutdoors]

Great job getting those big beavers out of there and great season buddy!!

[@hankhoughton5709]

Love your trapping videos. I've been waiting all Winter for your Spring trapping. Thanks for all the great work you do!

[@thyslop1737]

Great videos. Great content. Fascinating. Do you skin and sell the pelts?

[@dhtrapper7894]

Great catches! Love the vids again and the info is great! I was a little behind watching and binge watching them today and yesterday:). Thank you!

[@TheFishleclair]

I added 7 MB750 to my traps, Inspired by your vids. Set them out the first time last weekend and al l3 I put out connected! Thanks for thj etips and answering my questions previously.

[@charlesmanning2523]

Right on you must have big castor collection by now bud

[@joepeters7551]

Awesome! I sure enjoy your videos!

[@OutdoorExperiences]

Hey man liking all vids and comments, something I would recommend is when you are editing change the volume of the audio when you are setting traps and such to most likely 150-200% that way its the same volume as the rest of the video, something small but really helpful!

[@buckyy_sap4918]

Does your lever on your Bridger #5 twist on you and jaw upward, I just seen posting on trapping site

[@330Maniac]

No I've never had it happen before

[@buckyy_sap4918]

@@330Maniac How do you find them Bridger 5 for nuisance beaver work, I was thinking of buy couple for myself, I'm using long springs 3 and 4 and TS 85 work great nice high catch, I had few misses with long spring and didn't hold them It seems like it kicks there foot out of the trap, sometime its empty. I guess that happens when you used traps, Lol

[@nathenfarmer5625]

I like your channel also the trapping style you use. I have learned bunch you and trapper j outdoors

[@christopherbeackley6279]

Those logs on the castor set might have given the beaver enough leverage to get out of the trap if it was only a toe catch. But great video.

[@camel1945]

best trapper so far!!!

[@jonnyg172]

2. Super blankets 👍👍 DID I SOMEHOW MISS YOUR LAST ICE TRIP UP NORTH?

[@dylanhembree6575]

Love the video keep up the good work

[@stewartfrerotte7227]

good one thanks

[@jamesswick7534]

Great catches! Have you ever been bitten by a beaver?

[@BLAZER454S10]

Good watch

[@AnthonyRubeoOutdoors]

Damn hammer them big brown Beaver

[@rhyssutherland8937]

Awesome work. Have to ask. Do you eat any of the beaver? Or are the not viable after drowning? Cheers from New Zealand

[@tracyproctor3344]

Another great video 330. Wish our season went as long as yours here in nebraska. How long does yours last?

[@OutdoorExperiences]

May 15th but you can trap after that with nusiamce permits

[@timmarks6537]

They get educated & can snap legholds by throwing mud on them as well as tail slapping them. I've watched them do while in my deer stand.

[@patrappingandoutdoors2210]

I wish we could use #5s and mb750s for water sets here in pa 6 1/2 jaw spread max i got some new #4 bridger longsprings only longsprings I could find they seem ok and some #4 dukes 4 coil I'll see how they compare to the #3 bridgers I've been using.. good videos!!

[@floydlenz2280]

Really nice beavers Amigo.. No 2 yr olds there !!

[@philais]

Whoohoo!

[@SchwarzeskabelGWP]

That looks like a fun little place to duck hunt

[@davidhamilton9106]

330 What's up brother!

[@michaelenglish8004]

I know it's your way but I don't set trap until rod is secure. 👍🇺🇲

[@BLAZER454S10]

First time I’ve ever been first good to watch it

[@timmarks6537]

That's a really long dam friend,but I wouldn't call it massive as such per my observations in life. No,honestly I've never intentionally trapped beaver & pursued them as I have other wildlife,but I've been round them & seen much of their activities & disgusting damage to land,forests & orchards. A massive dam is one I saw on a mountain side next door to the christmas tree farm I was harvesting & baling purchased xmas tree. It went about a 1/2 mile crescent moon style around this small mountain about half way up it. It caught spring water from a mountain side spring. From the lip of the dam at water level in the middle it was about 150 yards to the dry land wall of the mountain behind the water. At that same point it was well over 100 feet tall built up & away from the mountain side in order to support its self & the water it caught about 1 to 6 feet deep. It was massive & impressive,looked like tank traps & rail road tressels holding the whole thing up on the mountain side. Was near Dansville in western n.y. about oh I guess it was 30 years ago now,I'm 56. Was mostly built from xmas trees.

[@flintlock2588]

I don't know man, setting for a front foot catch on beaver is risky. Seems like there are a lot more misses. (in my personal experience anyway). Curious why you set for front feet in some places where you could set deeper for a backfoot catch? I'm sure u have your reasons. Great channel and videos 👍

[@330Maniac]

I have a lot of success on front foot catches. Honestly way easier for me than a back foot and it takes a lot less water to drown them.

[@flintlock2588]

Right on. You definitely know how to whack em and stack em. Anytime I had a snapped foothold I'd remake then make a new set close by with a little sac oil. Good trick.. Got that one from Charlie Dobbins.

[@snakeman48]

Now the property owned can open the dam and lower the water level. Until the next pair move in.

[@OutdoorExperiences]

Only ever a temporary solution when dealing with wildlife

[@patrappingandoutdoors2210]

We gotta be 15 feet from dams and huts also we are allowed bank den sets

[@jakee8733]

Sounds like PA wants a beaver problem

[@patrappingandoutdoors2210]

@@jakee8733 yea lots here they upped the limit from 40 to 60 in some areas last year I'm guessing prices down no one trapping and population going up

[@timmarks6537]

Most farmers I know hate beaver down to their souls, most will do anything & take any opportunity to kill one on their ground no matter what the laws say! My first trap I ever set was given to me by a retired elderly farmer (a Blake & lamb?) Leghold coon & rat trap. It was set on this elderly farmers grounds. He told me when you get way down to the muck I own way down back,the ditch is the end of my property,you can trap up to this side of it. Said," if you see any beaver son,you damn well let me know!" I'll have to spread the word to my neighbors that they are back. There was no season,but he said we will take care of it. Then told me how they dammed up the muck when he was younger & flood thousands & thousands of acres of prime potatoe,carrot & onion muck over 20 foot deep in places over 2 counties. Said,you see so much as one son,& you let me know.

[@rangepro]

sweeettttt!

[@Dunlap-uj5zl]

👍

[@esoxaddict]

You don't ever do a video on skinning the beaver you catch. Are they worth anything or are you just throwing them away?

[@OutdoorExperiences]

He sells them on the carcass

[@timross7046]

I notice you set your foothold a lot deeper than say trapper j , is there a reason or just your preference?

[@OutdoorExperiences]

I believe just preference

[@nomerc3608]

🇺🇸🦅⚓️👍🏻

[@hunt_trap_fish]

“Guy’s gotta big... nevermind” what you meant to say was “repair to do.” Bc no one with a big... brain... drives a truck that loud. And by loud I mean broken, and in need of repair.