How to Cut up Beaver Tail for Fishing Bait

People often hear about using "beaver tail" for ice fishing bait and wonder what it is. Well the answer is quite literally the tail from a beaver. In this video I take a recently trapped beaver and show how to cut up it's tail for ice fishing bait while keeping the tail leather in tact. Some might call it unconventional, but I'm all for using the entirety of any animal I harvest. No more buying wax worms for me!

[@frankstoddard-d3x]

I basically cut the tail up not skinned and splitting it in half then use bigger strips for Walleye and small pieces for bluegill and crappies with great success when other people weren’t doing well at all with other baits ,everywhere from the Mississippi river to Upper Red Lake …..

[@JacksonBaumgartOutdoors]

Yea I mainly did it like this to preserve the tail for a potential leather project with the tail. I’m excited to try it for walleye also