Beaver meat makes really great coyote bait. That's a really nice beaver buggers to drag out when they are big. My number one beaver getter is Tom Maranda's Jym River it makes an oil slick on the water all the way down stream drives them nuts, I have one mounted sitting in the living room. Great trapping video its still fun to do and challenging. Brings back many memories trapping with my dad growing up.😎😎
Have never done above ground beaver trapping. Our best year we did $10k beaver/muskrat. A blanket would go for $300. I once pulled a live beaver onto the ice (that was fun!). That was back in the early '70's. Today, that would be about $55k for a father and teen son in 3 months of trapping while also logging and ice fishing. We also got a few fishers, bobcat and coon. Dad would guide deer and bear hunters. Did our own gardening, fishing, and canning. Shared ownership with several logging camps converted into hunting camps. We did quite well. BTW, Dad was once stranded by a blizzard in one of our camps with no food except the beaver. Supposedly, beaver was a delicacy to the Native Americans, but no matter how he cooked that beaver, he could not keep it down. Anyone here ever eat beaver?
I know quite a few guys that eat beaver. A friend in Wytopitlock actually cans his beaver meat. You’re lucky to get $10 for a beaver hide now. It’s sad how the fur market has fallen apart.
@@Haynesvilleguide The West was won by mountain men trapping beaver in America and Canada. The Brits had to have their famous hats for hundreds of years. Once PETA started dumping red paint on the fur coats of celebrities, the market tanked. Without their natural predator the wolf, and the beaver trapper, beaver have destroyed millions of acres of land all over the continent. There may be more beaver today than ever before. It may take hundreds of years before my favorite brook returns to near normal. A brook no longer than 2 miles as the crow flies, that you could step across in the summer, had a natural fishery that survived pressure for hundreds of years. We used lay on the culvert, and watch dozens of 4-to-13-inch native brook trout swarm around in the spring hole below us. The huge pasture spruce held together the banks that kept hidden native trout from most fishermen. Once logged, understory trees rushed in to fill the space, inviting the beaver.
Beaver meat makes really great coyote bait. That's a really nice beaver buggers to drag out when they are big. My number one beaver getter is Tom Maranda's Jym River it makes an oil slick on the water all the way down stream drives them nuts, I have one mounted sitting in the living room. Great trapping video its still fun to do and challenging. Brings back many memories trapping with my dad growing up.😎😎
Glad you liked the video. I’ll have to find some of that Jym River!
Have never done above ground beaver trapping. Our best year we did $10k beaver/muskrat. A blanket would go for $300. I once pulled a live beaver onto the ice (that was fun!). That was back in the early '70's. Today, that would be about $55k for a father and teen son in 3 months of trapping while also logging and ice fishing. We also got a few fishers, bobcat and coon. Dad would guide deer and bear hunters. Did our own gardening, fishing, and canning. Shared ownership with several logging camps converted into hunting camps. We did quite well.
BTW, Dad was once stranded by a blizzard in one of our camps with no food except the beaver. Supposedly, beaver was a delicacy to the Native Americans, but no matter how he cooked that beaver, he could not keep it down. Anyone here ever eat beaver?
I know quite a few guys that eat beaver. A friend in Wytopitlock actually cans his beaver meat. You’re lucky to get $10 for a beaver hide now. It’s sad how the fur market has fallen apart.
@@Haynesvilleguide The West was won by mountain men trapping beaver in America and Canada. The Brits had to have their famous hats for hundreds of years. Once PETA started dumping red paint on the fur coats of celebrities, the market tanked.
Without their natural predator the wolf, and the beaver trapper, beaver have destroyed millions of acres of land all over the continent. There may be more beaver today than ever before.
It may take hundreds of years before my favorite brook returns to near normal. A brook no longer than 2 miles as the crow flies, that you could step across in the summer, had a natural fishery that survived pressure for hundreds of years.
We used lay on the culvert, and watch dozens of 4-to-13-inch native brook trout swarm around in the spring hole below us.
The huge pasture spruce held together the banks that kept hidden native trout from most fishermen. Once logged, understory trees rushed in to fill the space, inviting the beaver.
Beavers are crazy productive little buggars. I have some of the same footage of roads they have flooded.
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Volumto like, turned mine wide open, no good.