Vanity post - My lake is having a beaver problem, any advice on how to trap them?

04/07/06 | Abathar

[Abathar]

I was hoping someone could answer a couple of questions I have on how to get rid of beaver out of a lake. I live in Indiana now but grew up in Michigan my whole life. Up there if you even look crosseyed at one the DNR will arrest you on the spot, so I was surprised when I called them here to get permission to live trap the d@mn things the officer just laughed and suggested I use dynamite on their home. He told me they were endangered once but since they brought them back our county has classified them as a nuisance. He told me if they were a problem just trap them or shoot them. The problem is they come out mostly at night, and the spillway the little b@stard keeps daming up is about 300 yards away from my back porch, and since they haven't started building a den yet I don't know where they sleep. I have to clean the stupid spillway up at least 3 times a week now, and I am getting pretty upset. If someone has some ideas not involving high explosives I sure would appreciate it.

[SunkenCiv]

Quite a tale.

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[300magnum]

Found this story this morning. I thought you might like to read it.

No. of 'Nuisance' Beaver Trappers Swells

[Abathar]

Its interesting you sent that, I talked to a couple of old timers that farm around us, they told us what the 2 guys in our county were doing.

They would be called to a subdivision that has a lake with beaver, live trap them, then drive them out to another lake and drop them off in the night, they were laughing their butts off telling me that they think the guys have trapped the same beaver about 5 times. Now I'm wondering how they magicaly appeared in my lake that is far from any river or other lake.

I went down this weekend and cleaned another dam out again they started. I have my Weatherby elk rifle (.340 mag) sighted in at exactly 310 yards now, the distance from my doorwall to the edge of the water. I will get him the old fashion way soon......