Next lodge

[dakids]

I cleaned out the last 2 lodges.  Time to find my next target.  Here is one of the candidates.  Massive lodge with very shallow water.  Deepest  spot I could find was 2.5 feet with most of it less than a foot.   I need 14 inches for a conibear.  I would usually use snares in these spots but I cant because the water level has dropped 3 inches since ice formed and there is an air pocket.  The bottom is soft stinky loon poop.  Not my favorite.  Probably going to wait until we have more snow so I can clean waders and beavers off before I put them into my car.

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[mike89]

looks like a darn good sized lodge too!!

[dakids]

More pictures.

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[dakids]

Very big lodge.  If water keeps dropping they might be in trouble.  Lots of coyotes. I wish I could trap them.

[LPS]

 

[dakids]

Anybody know what this is.  It is on the lodge. Very lightweight aluminum.   About foot long by 4 inches square.

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[LPS]

Very interesting.  Some kind of collapsible box.  Like a night crawler box.  Maybe a bug trap for DNR tests???

[HD]

looks like a DNR bat box....

[dakids]

Looked a little bit like a trap.

[HD]

From the angle of the picture, it looked flatter...I think the bat boxes are only 4 inches thick, but a foot or more wide.

Could be a trap of sorts....

[dakids]

It looked flattened out from a tree falling down on it.  I will be sending picture to wildlife biologist that I'm working with in the refuge.

[Rebel SS]

It couldn't be a reusable gypsy moth trap, could it? Most of those are cardboard...

[deadeye]

I'd go with some sort of DNR trap box but usually they have DNR on them someplace.  Probably a students project.  Looks like a 8-9 beaver lodge.  A couple neighbors are trapping beaver on our land.  They were going to set traps yesterday so it will be interesting to see what they get.  My brother in law doesn't mind them so much but I'm not a fan of the beavers due to the damage they cause.  Not so much the trees they cut down but the acres of trees that die due to flooding.   

[HD]

I was wondering if you ever use snares for traps, and how you rig them.
Some trapper sites show trapped animals, but not how they actually work.
There are no triggers, from what I can see.
Are they legal in Minnesota? Most of the set ones I've seen are on open trails.
I would think you could potentially have a problem catching domestic animals following trails?

This is a pic of the mechanism that constricts down, but they just walk through the loop...and the harder they pull the tighter it gets?


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[dakids]

I will post pictures of what I use tomorrow.   I need sleep as I'm going to work at midnight.

[Boar]

i thinks snares are illegal in mn, i might be wrong

[glenn57]

i thinks snares are illegal in mn, i might be wrong

you usually are!!

[dakids]

Snares are legal in Minnesota.

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[delcecchi]

Snares are legal in Minnesota.

Looks like only in water in the "farmland zone", right?   I guess there must be a map in the book that tells where farmland zone is but I bet Rochester is in it...

[Rebel SS]

                

[dakids]

Snares are legal in Minnesota.

Looks like only in water in the "farmland zone", right?   I guess there must be a map in the book that tells where farmland zone is but I bet Rochester is in it...

On private land with permission.  Not legal on public lands