I remember back in 1984, I walked up on a huge lodge. There was a blanket beaver out swimming around. I sat still as I watched as the beaver submerged, pin pointing the entrance, as the bottom was all rock with no mud trails. I waded out and placed a Victor 330 in the run. The next day, I came upon a huge 65 Lbs beaver floating on the surface. This 14 year old hauled that beaver several miles home while listening to Huey Lewis' SPORTS album blasting on a boom box in the wicker pack basket. Sphagnum Pond, Black Rock Forest, December, 1984.

@beebob1279

6 ай бұрын

Fun remembering things.

@MarkTheDrunkenSailor

5 ай бұрын

Haha I did the same thing last year when I was 13 on a 330 castor mound set, had to haul it across a creek and woods

from a retired beaver trapper, you are doing OK, can't walk the rivers anymore as I am old now, but you are doing well, from southern Minnesota

Hope the landowner is coughing up a bounty on those. With your reputation you definitely deserve it!!! Top notch outdoorsman in everything you do hunt , fish , trap and forage! Actually a notch above top notch. One of the best in all realms! Hats off to Scotty Mach!

Good to see you back at it...

My season doesn't start until 11/10 in SE Michigan. I've got three lodges that I'm being asked to wipe out. I can hardly wait four more days!

My oldest son got me into trapping so Ive only been doing it for 10 years. This is the first time I have ever seen a 330 reset by hand.

Welcome back to the BEST Beaver trapper alive!!!

@2ndamendmentSam

6 ай бұрын

I’ll second that!

@chrisholmes6029

5 ай бұрын

I will 3rd that. 330 is the first trapper I found online and for sure he is my favorite. Glad to see the trapping videos coming. Thanks for all your great content. Your a great teacher. Hey, get anRTS trap setter before you destroy your body settingthose 330's.

I've waited an eternity for this!

Hi...I am just writing you to tell you how much I enjoy your expertise...I am not a trapper and don't wish to be...! But I enjoy your smarts...you think for the beaver and it's why you're so successful...!

The beaver master is slaying already. Good luck getting some deer meat for the freezer.👊💀

My favorite videos are about to start! I love watching you trap.

The long wait is over, great video. 9 out of one lodge should save a few trees. Well done. Good luck with deer season.

I don't know why but I just get more out of it when I get a beaver in a foothold.

Great vid I love drowning sets you get trap smart beaver they don't see it coming

I have been craving some 330 maniac beaver trapping! Great video.

Pretty interesting. Thanks for making the video.

Great job, you haven’t missed a beat, the waders are a perpetual problem, thanks for making the video in adverse conditions Scott.

Great haul Scott! Hope you get a big Buck brother 😁👍

Good to see you back.

Hopefully you can trap more this winter than you did last winter

Amesome to see you back out on the line! Looking forward to watching this season

Thanks for sharing year after year !

Good to see you back Scott, I have learned a lot from your videos.

Setting that beaver extreme by hand impressive

Good to see you enjoying yourself again on the line and thank you for your guidance in beaver trapping and using Bearded Man Beaver lure that awesome

Great to see you back out trapping in our great state 330! Hope rifle season goes well for you out your way.

fully eradicated awesome set scott.

I hunt but don’t trap. There’s not much room where I live to do it. So, I enjoy watching your videos.

Good to see you back with trapping. Love the fishing videos too. 👍🏻😎🇺🇸

The ole honey hole, trapping and stacking.

That's awsome great way to start the season. Good luck have fun deer hunting.

The mic is a nice touch!

Nice skills!!!

Its like the monday of the trap season. Mine kinda went like that too hahaha except i only caught one. Lol

Great job! I think you got them all! That got me excited my season opens next week! Thank you for sharing my friend!

Awesome Start to the season man. So happy to see ya back after the beavers. I live vicariously through you cause I don't have any beavers around me. AWESOME JOB!!!!!

Awesome catches. Congratulations

you got some ice now

Looks like a great start Scott! Thanks for all of your great tips and content!

Nice 👍 gl hunting to man 😁

Just north of you in Manitoba, just bought my first couple traps and itching to get out! But just like you it is deer season and my trapping area is also my whitetail woods, so hunting it is. Thanks for all the great videos, have been following for a while. Use your set method with my first ever 330 and love it, hope your seasons are successful ones!

@330Maniac

6 ай бұрын

Good luck!

Профессионал!

Good luck hunting

I'm patching my 2nd pair of waders this season already.

What is scarring up the tail? That is a huge beaver. Is that all the beaver 🦫 in that lodge you think? Should they break up the lodge?

They could put wire mesh protection around trees so beaver couldn’t cut them down too

@330Maniac

6 ай бұрын

And then where do you think the beavers would go? Right to the next tree that doesn't have it which is the next neighbors property and problem. No matter where they go they do damage on certified lakes. Hence then need to be managed

@chrisholmes6029

5 ай бұрын

Watch Mikes videos of Beavers you tube video. The beaver wnt up behind a college building right to a tree with a fence around it and got the fence of enough to cut te young tree and drag it down to the river.

beaver master

Are you basically doing nuisance beaver this year? I hope the fur prices are going to rise.

Iron wood, (American Hornbeam) 3 kinds of it that I know of,& oak. Both very slow growing varieties of hardwoods. Typical that beavers would destroy such slow growing good hardwoods. Do them justice!!!

If u did not smoke you would not breath so hard 😂😂😂😂😂jk my friend u r awsome sir..

Hey brother, you dont really have a town up there called Frostbite Falls do ya, like on Bullwinkle? Lol

When your putting your swivel stick in does it go in through the trap or just on the outside so it doesn’t move?

@330Maniac

4 ай бұрын

Between the jaws so it doesn't swing

Great video, I'm just starting to get into trapping this yr. What is your preferred trap for drowning rods? Thanks

Years ago a friend and i was out at a local lake crappie fishing, i was standing on an old lodge, my foot went through it.I told my buddy this us an old beaver lodge. He said you're crazy, there's no beacers around here a few minutes later i pointed to one swimming out in the lake, i said what's that?

@calvincraft2580

6 ай бұрын

Beavers

What brand waders and repair patches u using. My swamp doesn't like waders very much...lol. too much duck brush to wade thru

@330Maniac

6 ай бұрын

I wear plain hodgeman waders. I haven't found any good waders that can stand up to trapline wear and tear

any brand of waders you guys have had good luck with? I know trapping is hard on waders, but i can't get waders to last more than 2 or 3 months.

@330Maniac

6 ай бұрын

I haven't found a brand that can stand up to trapping yet!!

How old is a beaver when it's full grown?

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What do you use for patching holes in your waders? Goo is to stiff!!

How long are your drowning rods? Great trap handling!!

@330Maniac

6 ай бұрын

They are all 10ft and work in most conditions

I don’t know if you smoke but if you do pack it in, that cough of yours needs to be checked out, working in that misty atmosphere can’t help but get yourself checked out buddy. Really enjoyed your videos keep up the good work but look after yourself.

@mikewhitman745

3 ай бұрын

I'm so tired of people saying that if anyone is out of breath. Doesn't matter that he's wearing waders, dragging around a sled half the time, slogging through mud and snow, hammering sticks into the bottom, climbing down and up out of beaver runs. Nooooo, can't be that he's physically exerting himself. Can't be that he has a slight cough or something caught in his throat. It's like you never have done any physical activities in the cold.

Had to Go? Had to? Really? According to who? Not You..

@bigred3169

6 ай бұрын

the land owner

@330Maniac

6 ай бұрын

The Land owner.... they were cutting down all their valuable trees on their lake property which drops the property value. So.... they HAD to go!!!

@330Maniac

6 ай бұрын

@redfeather4452 Unfortunately they are very destructive in certain situations. In those cases they have to be removed. We have way to many around us, the populations need to be balanced.

@brandonroe278

6 ай бұрын

if you like protecting beavers, why are you watching a beaver trapping video?

@ajmuzz22

6 ай бұрын

Easy bro’s.. easy.. Maybe I came off a little harsh to begin.. I’m an old yooper eh.. I was born and raised in a beaver pond.. 👍🏽😎 And I like Beaver 🦫

2 year old lol

@330Maniac

5 ай бұрын

You must not know beaver age lingo 😎🤔

@edwoolsey5107

5 ай бұрын

estimate them 3 years or older @@330Maniac

The sniffing heavy breathing coughing just annoys! Geeze

@330Maniac

5 ай бұрын

Trapping aint easy bud, trust me i don't like it either LOL

@georgepotter5101

5 ай бұрын

Then turn on cc or turn volume off. It's cold and it's not easy work. Try it sometime before opening your piehole

Dynamite is how we do it down south.

@330Maniac

6 ай бұрын

We do it here too but that doesn't slow them down at all. Most of them are living in the shoreline and will rebuild the lodge in a day if you blow it up.

Hole in your glove Hole in your waders Welcome to trapping season !!

We had a huge lodge on our island my entire childhood- I enjoyed watching them for years- especially when I could ice skate there- They are loving- kind to eachother- talkative- hard working- keystone species crucial to wetlands- The female lived a long time and was as big as a dog- I was thrilled to protect them and I still do;) Thank you for teaching me some things** 🦫❤️‍🔥🦅

@TheStonedstone

6 ай бұрын

Such a naive childish person, biased by Disney's fairytales. Beavers are the most destructive pests on the planet, regardles whether you are aware of that obvious fact or not. These damned pests destroyed my whole property, drained my pond by ripping holes in levees an caused death of majority of fishes. Stay naive child.