Thanks Wild for watching! I love making all of these videos I hope that the info you saw helped you in some way =)

You are very welcome Sam I'm glad they help some folks in being a better trapper. And thanks for watching!

I picked up a few more this year as well!

Thanks Todd!!

Dub Coco Thanks for watching pal!!!!

Thanks for watching Barry. We got a ton of beaver around me it seems they are never ending lol

Thanks for watching! Beaver population here is insane.I can trap the same spots year after year and not even make a dent in the population.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks for watching!

Heith Gagnon Hey pal thanks for the kind words. Sorry i didn't comment earlier. For some reason You Tube hid your comment like it was spam or something lol. Well I run around twenty five 330s and any number of snares also. some footholds in the spring also but maybe a half dozen. The key to catching good numbers is I always am moving traps. as soon as I make some good catches I will move those traps to new locations so I always have good producing sets out. There are a few trappers around here but not many big ones. I have a buyer here that prefers to buy his beaver whole because he does all his own processing and thats where he makes his money. Selling the meat and the castor adds up. I have them tore up but not often. Last year I have a few that were destroyed up in the state park. I assumed it was wolves or possibly a bear because whatever it was bent my rebar stake to a 45 degree angle trying to pull the trap stake out with the beaver and trap. The area I trap Literally has hundreds of lakes, ponds, sloughs, rivers you name it running around and through here. It's actually called the lakes area and there are beaver denned up in just about every one of them. I been trapping all of these same areas for the past 20 years and my father and grandpa did before that. Even yet still the local DNR gets over 200 callas per summer on beaver causing problems. funny there are still that many of them causing trouble even with me out there trapping so many! And if anyone would like to share this video I would be very greatful. It's my best video on beaver trapping to date I feel and put alot of time and work into putting it together. I hope you all enjoy it and thanks again Kieth!

Can one do this well trapping beaver on public land in MN?

Yes for sure!

All of the above would be the answer.

Thanks for watching!

+Glen Gauthier Love them they are top notch!

Thanks allot Robert for watching I'm glad you enjoyed it =) Good luck with your trapline next year!

330 MaNiaC YVW always enjoy your videos as they explain a lot and personally I'm not a big beaver trapper but have to learn as my friend has lots of beaver he wants me to remove. Good luck to you as well on next years trapping!

Yup. I ended the year with 364 beaver. It was a long season! Thanks for watching pal.

+330 MaNiaC 364?? Man, thats tons of beavers! Well done!

I shoot in the head to save on fur damage

wow that's a small trap =(

No my best year was 467 it was around 12 years ago.

Thanks!!! I actually make my own castor lure in the springtime. Those are some good solid traps too. I only live about an hour west of you.

Bob Lee Hi Bob nice to meet ya. Looks like it might be a greaat spring for beaver trapping! I sell all of my beaver whole and unskinned for the most part unless i'm keeping some of the meat.

+Logan Floyd Thanks Logan!

I'm guessing exposure possibly

Thanks pal! I sell them all whole and spend the time I normally would putting them up out trapping more. Mostly because I have no place to put them up currently.

Thanks Logan and thanks for watching!

I sell them whole

Thanks for watching! Around here I just walk up knock on doors. Introduce myself and where I'm from. Then I ask permission to trap. I usually wear nice clothes not my trapping clothes. I almost always get permission from the land owner

330 MaNiaC no problem man your vedios have taught me a lot honestly and I appreciate it and also thank you for getting back to me so quickly

Tom Curry Hey Tom thanks for watching pal. I used my samsung galaxy S4 phone camera it worked great!

I don't. I sell them whole unskinned

O nice wish we had that option

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Alex_35 Thank you Alex!

I guess were gonna lose money this year it seems lol

+Jet Lee To be honest never found it that tasty but then again I never really knew how to cook it. Tips as stupid as it may seem?

Amanda Lee Ya people tell me I have an accent but I don't hear it myself lol. You can start by going to or calling your local DNR headquarters they will definately point you in the right direction where to find some beaver. I find most of my lodges on sloughs and rivers or big lakes in bays. Just about anywhere there is water and a good amount of brush or trees for them to survive on. Any more questions you can send me a PM if you like Amanda

We don't have them here.

I'm from central Minnesota

Yes

Ken & Chloe I prefer belisle 330s but thy are spendy.

maybe 1 per year other years I have caught 3 or 4

They are cheap now I haven't trapped in a couple months. maybe 12 dollar average

Becker

If you weren't gonna buy belisle 330 what other traps would you buy?

Mnoutdoors Honestly any 330 will do a good job even dukes. Only issue I have with them is cheap steel and the jaws bend sometimes.

Tammy Galindo I can't have my volume on High even with my phone and its way to loud. My laptop i gotta have it on 50% any louder is too much. What device are you watching on?

+Edward Winston Really low prices edward =/

+330 MaNiaC There no snow, What month was this video shot?

+army guy this was shot in march. The ice was just going out on mast lakes.

I sell most of my beaver whole and only save around 200lbs of meat per year. Yes I do save a pelt every now and then but they have to be special. like last year I caught a very large beaver that was pitch black in color. Thanks for watching pal

330 MaNiaC Darn! I was hoping you had a beaver room in your house. Just imagine all the snickers when you tell people that. Then they walk-in the room and find everything in the room is fuzzy. The walls, the ceiling, the lamps, the fans. Sorry, a lame attempt of a trapping joke, BAG2

beageek2 Hey I like the sound of that LOL

Got another set of questions. How big is your trap line. Actually I think you probably have a couple of lines. How many traps do you set on each line. And approximately how long are the lines in miles. I am trying to get an idea of how much time and effort it took to get all that meat and fur. I have done trapping for a single season. But to get any real numbers, I had to go long distances. Then I had the problem of reducing a populate to the point that there was only seed stock left. So how do you handle it so you are constantly catching. What is your policy for people trapping on top of you. Can you give me an idea of what percentage of snares to jaw traps you set. Thanks in Advance. Best Regards, BAG2

beageek2 Well I have tons of places here to trap beaver. Literally dozens of ponds everywhere and most of them containing beaver so there has never been a shortage of beaver numbers here, As for other trappers go if I come to a pond where someone else is trapping i will not set up on it until they move on. I am really the only trapper around my area that traps the extent I do. I run around 20 330s and a half dozen footholds maybe and some snares. I'm always moving them around every 3 days or so to make sure I have good producing sets out. I run about a 40 mile stretch one way roughly. I will trap one area of the stretch for a few days then move all my gear to another part of it and keep going that way until I stop.

Fergus falls MN

Jake Jones Thanks jake!