Need help learnin Beaver Snaring!!!!(OPEN WATER)

[330Trapper]

I need help understanding Beaver snaring... I've used mainly 330's and will be using a couple dozen snares soon here .

The Big question is: how does the beaver drown? do I HAVE to have the snare on a drowner cable into deep water???

Question 2...what is the depth I need to tangle a beaver in what someone posted as an "X" set ...the New snaring terminology is going to take some getting used to...

[ADC]

Here is a set that I learned from Dale Billingsley.... Get yourself a 6-7' long dead dry stick 1-1 1/2" in diameter, fasten a 11" loop out near the end of the stick, run the rest of the snare back along the stick til you get to the bank and stake it at the bank. Push the stick in the bank so it sticks straight out into the creek with the loop 1/2-2/3 under water. Dab a little castor lure on the tip of the stick. The beaver will swim all around under that stick trying to locate the source of the odor until he goes through the snare.

I know this not a drowning set but if you use 3/32 cable and a large lock you won't get much of any fur damage.

[yottey]

I drown beaver in 2-3 foot of water often with the X set up!drown about 90 to 95% that way, some just refuse to cooperate with drown cables,rods or tangle sticks or stakes!Don

[330Trapper]

Thanks for the reply's!!! I'm getting the Idea now!

Now if spring would get here!

[BobMo]

Hey 330,
Thanks again for the 330's. I already pick up a nice 50# black one yesterday with one.

[Snareman]

It's not necessary to drown your beaver using snares. It would be nice because dead beaver are less likely to incur fur/leather damage, cause an attraction for theft, attract predators and have twist outs. The snares you have, which should be there today, have a special inline swivel in them, which is good for helping your cable spinning freely longer.

Find a place where they are swimming, open loop until it's about 9" wide and stick 1/2 way into the water... no need to stick 2/3 under water. You'll catch about most beaver coming up the channel.

If you take a stick and wrap some wire around it, this can be used as the support system. Find place where beaver are swimming, then jam this stick off to one side which will have that support wire coming from it. Open loop to desired size and poke wire into the support collar... the clear polyvinyl tube that slide freely on the snare cable. Position it so it rests about 1/2" an inch behind lock.

You can anchor to about anything the beaver can't swim away with and can also use trap stakes through the adjustable loop end.

Snareman

[330Trapper]

BobMo... Hey Man...Glad to hear that you're having fun with the "new 330's" ;D I haven't tried my "New" Belisles yet, and now I just bought 24 snares from snareman...and I'm diving into learning these for spring beaver in a week or so...

Our weather here just won't break!!!

Glad you are having fun...are you going to tan that "Black Beav"

330Trapper

[330Trapper]

Snareman... I got the New Snare package the day I left with the nephews for a winter campout... the boys were all impressed with them, as was I.

I will be looking in my emails for your phone# to call you...like you said...a little one-on-one realtime chat about these snares ;D looks like I need to carve me a good stout Curmudgeon for thumpin wet-but-live beaver!

Thanks again!

330Trapper