Mr Dale, this is your video! You are taking your valuable time to share this information with us. I have learned a lot from you just watching you. I say that so I can say this, please try to sell your products, explain to us when, how and why to use it. This is your time, your business and your lifeline! So please "plug" your stuff as you see fit!!! Have a good one and May God bless y'all,Bo

Well that sure opened up the door for some future sets. I've got a few months to get it together on the setting of snares. Where I'm at its the square shape of the connibear that tips them off I'm pretty sure of that. But those were some really nice sets you demonstrated. The arsenal of sets you've got stored away for different species is truly amazing. A true testament of your desire of the outdoors and your willingness to share those with others is very Honorable!!! THANK YOU DALE, I definitely appreciate it Sir!!!!! Curt

I’ve done beaver control work for 14 years now, I can say this video is spot on. And I learned somethings. Thank you for sharing. Excellent video👍

Again Dale THANKS for putting this video out after we talked about trap smart Beavers. I have probably watched this video 10 to 12 times soaking in all the info you put out and it has worked like a charm. So far I've taken 7 of them using your techniques early in the season. They started getting really leary so I pulled out of there with a ton of season left. Figured I'd come back this Spring again to pull some more of them. Well went down there yesterday and discovered a guy trapping. Confronted him "not aggressively " and got his name and went to the landowners house to see if had given him permission to trap like he said. Landowner said he told him no I was trapping it and expected the guy wouldn't trap. I told him he was trapping and th e landowner jumped in his trk and hauled butt to the area. The guy was gone which I figured as much but I did get some info out of the Trapper. He'd been trapping 9 days and had 3 misses with toenails or hair. Then they left he said. They did that to me a long time ago also. But they moved 4 dams down to different bank dens back then and did the same thing again. But I'm thinking it would probably be a waste of time now to go back in before end of season to trap. Was just wondering what your thoughts would be on it Dale? With all your experience I figured you have had a similar experience before. THANKS Buddy

I enjoy and learn a lot from your videos & I have been trapping for 52 yrs. Keep it up !

You're making me think back on how I would handle educated beavers, when we could trap here in California. Thanks for this series and bringing back old memories!

Nice video 🤘 i love the new snare set ideas. I like to get a snare on what i believe to be the best spot so all the surrounding sets are waiting when that first beaver is splashing around in a snare in the hot spot. Another thing ive found that works good for trap shy beaver is the pine oil that you cant get for a bowhunters cover scent. Its purely a food lure that can spike interest in the laziest of beaver.

Thank you Dale, i have learned so much from your videos , so much is just common sense stuff , that we never think of.

Good info. I use all 3 type of traps. what ever the area calls for. Yes you gave me some ideas on some places to set and also help on the use of snares in the water. I seen that below the spill way of the dam that you have a channel that you can put a 330 and get those smart ones at that you would get above the dam. Yes I got some smart ones that was trap shy. There is always a way to get them and need to think outside the box of what you would normal do . That is how I would get them , The pole set with the snare on it , remind me for how I trap beaver under water, it is a deadly set. Thanks for shear how you do it and clear up for me on set snares in water . The shortest time it took me to take out all 6 beavers out of area is about 15 hours, Set the traps in the afternoon and the next morning I had them all. I was thinking there was more but none I got them all. I know it is easy to trap 5 to 6 beavers then the only 1 that been smart up one way or another .

Great videos as always Dale!! Surely appreciate what you have done for the trapping community.

Great info! I’m pretty effective with a 330 and foothold and I have caught them in snares but I could step up my snaring game. I’m definitely gonna give this a try. Thanks.

Great video with great information Dale. I have got one to get after with some snares once I get back to the house.

That's so crazy. I have never been a 330 fan myself and I believe I only have 3 of them as well, I do like using them on a castor mound set and that's about it. Snares, in my opinion are easier to travel with, easier to set in deeper water, and ya can set more than one on a single pole. Just all around more efficient in my opinion AND no worries if getting bit by that 330, cause if ya do, ya got some problems. Always carry a rope with a loop on it to slip on your foot and run it threw your levers 2xs to get that thing off. Very good trick just in case ya get nipped because it does happen

Love the xover snare set.

Excellent little video. Keep ‘em coming!

Really like your videos I’ve learned some new tricks to catch beavers. I’m like you on the drowning rods I’ve never liked them always put my leg holds on a 10ft chain like you do

I've enjoyed watching several of your videos.

Thanks for a lot of great information.

I like it ! Not a snare guy, but I can see that being top notch ! Last one I had to deal with got #14 victor on his back foot in 20 inches of water at a dam break . Good stuff ! ! !

Another great video as always Dale!!

Lots of info, great video

Another Great video

Great video Dale,i enjoyed that a lot!!

Thank you Dale it wqas a learning video for me I dont do much beaver trapping because where i am I have not found any beaver places to catch them .I live in northern mi and I know that they have to be places out there but dont know what i am looking for if is in a woody area or swamps or what would you please give me and idea where to look for and when to look for ..I really thank you for your time dale and also how can I see your products that you have ..Thanks again .Mario

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Still no luck at Cumberland's Northwest Trapper Supply what do they call it, Thanks so much

So where do you get the lure, you sell, Looked on the Billingsley site and don't see it. great video ,👍👍👍👍

Awesome,how about some trick sets for spooky yote.

Hello, I’m a new at trapper. I have beavers damming up a culvert (30 inch round) . They start in the middle at joint where two culvert are joined together. What kind of traps do you recommend. I was going to start with foot traps

Since you keep all animals alive do you ever get bit I would like to go out and trap but being in a wheelchair I have gotten stuck big time and at this point, in time I am on hospice care. At any rate, have you ever been bitten by a beaver? What would you do to not get stuck in a wheelchair while in a wheelchair and want to go trapping? What wheelchair would you get? Sincerely! R.S.V.

At least with coyotes you can always up the enticement factor to make them overcome their fear, beaver don't care...there's nothing you can offer a wise beaver that'll force a response, aside from a blind set snare or foothold

we call them "educated" beaver ..

You sure aren't wrong there, if there's a shape all beaver learn to recognize eventually, it's a 330 conibear...no matter how good you blend it lol

Thank you!!

I've set two 330, 1 foothold drowning set and 6 snares in my pond and...nothing at all for couple of weeks. They are apparently trap shy/trap wise ones and avoid all my traps. Conibears are set in bank runs, snares on trails, slides and... no catch so far. What should I do? I had trapped one beaver back in the summer in 330 placed under a wire fence, but i checked it after couple of weeks. His ralatives probably have learned to avoid conibers, but they also avoid snares, set for the first time. I'm in despair, these pests ruined my pond, dug dozens of holes in pond dams, drained majority of water, all terrain around is demolished, lot of trees downed. Fishes probably will not survive this winter as a result of "activity" of these nuisance rodents. How to get rid of them?

What if the water is deeper than my arms are long? Seriously 😅

Do u paint your beaver snares? I hear some guys boil em in baking soda but would a coat of paint slow them down at all or are they just as fast? Appreciate it

Thanks Dale

mr Dale can you tell me where is a good place to dispatch a beaver with a 22...thanks lots

I had a 330 under ice it was going to go thru and then vered to the right.😂

Dale what size snares do you use for Beaver ?

b12 yes i believe had a doctor give me that inravenious 3 days in a row not for sure but check on it no matter what they say do it it works

Were do u find that lure