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Post by walkadog on Feb 25, 2024 15:42:40 GMT -6
Thought I was done trapping but I went crappie fishing this morning and a farmer came up to me and we got to talking. So he asked me if I would trap some beavers for him in a little creek anyways I should pickup several more in the next few days. I only set the runs that I could get to easily. LoL
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Post by bigjohn on Feb 25, 2024 16:38:40 GMT -6
Go get um.
Me, I'm pulling tomorrow as I've had enough of that wading in the water.
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Post by walkadog on Feb 26, 2024 16:37:47 GMT -6
There goes a few easy days of trapping. LoL. Pulled up to where one of my traps was this morning and could not find the darn thing ,guess I'll be putting on my chest waders tomorrow and going in the creek. It would be one of my beliels. Did get 1 this morning.
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Post by krank on Feb 27, 2024 13:40:33 GMT -6
I lost a 330 3 years ago. Trapping beaver for a friend of a friend. I looked and looked for that trap. Never found it. I think somebody kiped it. A year later the guy gives me a trap and he says its the one I lost and it was a Bridger 280 (not a duke 330) The whole deal with trapping for that guy was fishy so I thanked him and never went back.
Lost a 1 3/4 Bridger due to a faulty Berkshire anchor. Coyote left a gorgeous catch circle that is still there 5 years later. Last summer I was fishing and my trap was just laying there by the pond with my nametag on it.
Back in the 70s, I pulled my line and stashed all my traps in a gunny sack back in the woods in suburbia. Sent my brother after them and he procrastinated doing that. I went down and they were gone. A lot of those traps would be collectors items today.
South of me, on the Osage River they found an oak that was over 200 years old when it died and the stump was rotting away and there was a stash of traps made by a blacksmith. They had "DB" chiseled in each one of the springs. Daniel Boone wrote that he was being tracked by Indians near Marias De Cygne so he stashed his fur and traps and got caught afterwards. The Indians took everything he had and he had to walk home across Missouri naked in the winter time.
I guess losing traps comes with the territory.
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Post by walkadog on Feb 27, 2024 15:20:29 GMT -6
I looked and looked today but could not find it. Dang it. If it was there I would have to seen it the only thing that could have happened was it could of went over it and got leg caught. I doubt if anyone took it cause it was my farthest set from the road and the others was still there.
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Post by bigjohn on Feb 27, 2024 16:45:40 GMT -6
All of my bodygrips have at least 6 feet of cable attached with a swivel. I use rebar stakes or cable around a solid object.
That said, a few years ago I had a 330 set in a drainage ditch next to a road and had attached it to a sapling growing in the bank. The next day the trap was gone and I drug the area with my tator rake but no trap. The sapling had been pulled out. A couple days later (this was a summer job with warm water) the farmer called and said a beaver was floating there.
The only thing I could think of was that beaver made it to a pipe going thru the levee and the pumps pushed it out .
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Post by krank on Feb 28, 2024 7:21:45 GMT -6
When I water trap, I expect a flood. I dont anchor to hold a critter but rather anchor in case of flood. If the creek comes up and the trap catches brush and makes a log jam then I am hosed. Hasnt happened to me but I have heard the story from several people on this forum.
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Post by walkadog on Feb 28, 2024 13:52:08 GMT -6
I'm done now. LoL 😅 . I figured out what probably happened and it was my fault. I pushed the stake in-between the springs and the stake had a t on top to help stabilize it better and when it got caught it probably went straight up right with the stake
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Goodbye 2020