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Post by dabrock on Dec 10, 2011 11:35:31 GMT -6
grandpa and i caught my first beaver today.it weighed 50 pounds I'll bet.what is the best otter bait?
CJ HUGHES
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Post by musher on Dec 10, 2011 11:41:14 GMT -6
Congratulations. That's a nice sized beaver. How did you get it out of the woods?
I don't use bait for otter. I set for them in travel ways such as beaver dam crossings and small streams between lakes..
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Post by foxman on Dec 10, 2011 13:24:30 GMT -6
i saw bobcat as the title, then i saw 50 pounds..i was about to throw a bs flag on the ground! lol Congrats on the beaver!
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Post by schweg2 on Dec 10, 2011 18:08:40 GMT -6
i saw bobcat as the title, then i saw 50 pounds..i was about to throw a bs flag on the ground! lol Congrats on the beaver! Haha Same here! Congrats! |
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Post by dabrock on Dec 10, 2011 19:02:51 GMT -6
CJ was excited about the beaver as well as the cat we cought yesterday. This was his first at posting also. He is commited. I let him help sikn the beaver and he did some of the fleshing and boarding it. I helped him step the 330', but he did chose the location and helped sitting it up. The beaver was more like 30lbs. I am having a ball running our line together, but he is about to wear this 75 yo man out. AH youth aint it great. He has asked several time since posting how many people I thought commented.
Thank to all for making his day by commenting on his post.
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Post by C1972 on Dec 12, 2011 21:22:42 GMT -6
Congratulations on the first beaver for him. I hope he's hooked for life. Nice job on passing our tradition on to the youth.
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Post by dabrock on Dec 14, 2011 18:17:24 GMT -6
CJ made his first all by himself coyote set today. Did a good job, hope he has his first coyote soon.
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Post by trappnman on Dec 15, 2011 12:12:29 GMT -6
in limited experience, never found an otter bait that didn't take more coon and beaver than otter. Plus it seems, to me, that otter aren't all that much interested in bait, etc- that is, I never saw where baited/lured sets outproduced good blind sets.
you simply cannot beat a good crossover
but one trick mike Fisher taught me, was to take sand and matted grass, etc from a good otter toilet, and use it at more otter sets. I have taken several otter by doing just that.
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Post by dabrock on Dec 15, 2011 12:17:07 GMT -6
we found a couple tolets and have set craw outs, so may be we will catch our first otter soon.
Thanks for the info.
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Post by trappnman on Dec 15, 2011 12:17:35 GMT -6
nothing I enjoy more thna having the grandkids along- a few years ago, helped my oldest grandson set a couple of coyote traps in MT behind his ranch house-
I told him, now you are going to check these with high hopes, and maybe you will get 1 right away, but chances are, you are going to check them for many days, you'll get discouraged and think i'll never catch one- then one day there he wil lbe!
2 weeks later, he called us all excited "grandpa I caught one!" .... he had to go back to house for his gun, as he got tired of trucking it up the hill each day. He then moved the traps to new locations, and caught another all on his own. Didn;t get to see it, wish I had been there.
I had him send me the pelt, and I got it tanned for him as a keepsake.
tell CJ good luck!
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Post by dabrock on Dec 15, 2011 16:28:13 GMT -6
CJ begin trapping when the family lived on our Ohio farm. He was 6yo. I gave him some #1 ls and showed him how to set them. He set him a short line up the hollow from his house and cought some possum. He was faithful to run his line every morning before going to school. 2 yrs ago they move to Oklahoma and he still set traps out and cought some possum. Last June my wife and I bolught the farm next to my son's so CJ and I are having a blast. This moring he had his first snared coon.
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