Tying off your beaver traps on the down stream side of the set is simple practice that can save you a lot of headache in the fur shed. Beavers are extremely territorial and use their large teeth to fight each other during the spring breeding season. If you catch a beaver and it remains near the castor mound you run the risk of another beaver coming along and biting it up, ruing the pelt. For added precaution we secure our sets in a way that they will fall away from the bank and into the current

Taking beaver out of a snare | Dunlap LURES