Looking for information on how to go about having someone trap a nuisance beaver on a small lake just outside of Baysville- Lake of Bays area.
What is involved as far as permission or approvals?
Thanks
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Looking for information on how to go about having someone trap a nuisance beaver on a small lake just outside of Baysville- Lake of Bays area.
What is involved as far as permission or approvals?
Thanks
quick google search gives this,
People are allowed to shoot beaver on their own property. The Game and Fish Act allows private landowners to destroy a nuisance animal if the animal is damaging their property. Check with your municipal office first to determine if the discharge of firearms is prohibited by local by-laws in your area.
theres also this document
http://www.kapuskasing.ca/en/Living/...eaverNotes.pdf
just another thing that came to mind, my uncle had 2 huge beavers putting dams all over his property causing everything to flood, youll catch them in the water swimming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigboy
we were actually up at his property to put up some tree stands and we came back for lunch and we noticed 2 little brown dots in the pond, my uncle noticed a dam in another little stream he had going through his property but in the last few months his property was becoming mush and he could never find those beavers until that day when they moved into the pond
from my experience they wont run out onto dry land if you are right there , they will stay in the water and dive down and hold their breath , theyll go and dive down for a few minutes but will have to come back up for air. they are strong animals and get VERY big. i wish i had a picture of the one my uncle took out.
by the way if they already made a dam and are flooding things once you take that beaver out take that dam out immediately beavers will take it over and continue to do what he started.
from my pervious post tho, from my understanding you are only allowed to kill a beaver ONCE it has started destroying your property and becoming a issue.
good luck with it!
Tannerite is amazing tool
Contact your local trapper councils or the MNR and ask for a local contact. Trapper just needs landowner permission.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigboy
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I have the same problem on a small lake I am on which has risen about 1 1/2 foot in the last few years,this summer while fishing I could easily see that the lake had a whole family on it,probably 6 to 8 beaver.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigboy
The problem is I am at the low end of the lake and they have flooded out my dock area and killed off scores of beautiful tree's both hardwood and cedar.When I contacted the MNR they stated the beavers have to be damaging your property and be on your property,which they presently are not.
I did contact a local trapper last week and he laughed basically telling me he has been unable to sell even his last year's pelts
and would only come out to trap if paid $100.00 a beaver AND $100.00 for mileage for every trip.
Same story here on our lake. You'd have to pay a trapper up front to come trap any nuisance beaver because they've been unable to sell any fur. I know how I'd handle it.
I have been advised to do that but fundamentally I do not like breaking the law,wasting the fur and the resource.Quote:
Originally Posted by sawbill
What bothers me is if a licensed trapper must meet a yearly quota and the MNR knows the damage being done is this not a good example where they should be trapped.
The land around my Lake is mostly owned by a City guy who I like and get along with,however his cottage is high and dry and my land is in the low spot of the lake,so he's OK with the flooding as it does not affect him.
Just had a couple beaver removed from the creek running behind my property. They spent the summer damming the creek until it was almost ready to flood my yard. Luckily I know a trapper who removed the beavers for a bottle of his favorite liquor.
That seems about the going rate in southern Ontario lol.
Well that's what my uncle was getting years ago not sure if he added milage tho he only stays local .
Sucks the way the Furr trade has gone.
Good luck with them.
A dam burst on my grandfather's property and it destroys everything.
It left dried up pond for year afterwards.
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Are there any laws against breaking a dam? Maybe not the easiest option but maybe the only one?
Nuisance beaver? There's a female CO around these parts that has that nickname.
Pointless to just break up a damn..they'll just rebuild.Quote:
Originally Posted by dean.f
I used to punch a hole in them around noon...then go back at dusk, sit in a chair with my shotgun and wait for them to come fix it. Took about 20 beavers out of my neighbours property that way.
I know a trapper that said he could quit his regular job and just do nuisance beaver trapping. He is hired by at least 5 different municipalities/towns.
Fur worth nothing but castor is still worth good $$$.
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That actually becomes more of a problem for a guy like me, I am now competing for the services of a trapper who is already on the payroll of several municipalities.I don't know if this trapper takes one beaver or 10 off the Lake I am on,but either way I cannot bank roll this.Its illegal of me to SSS and I have to much respect for my local CO's to do this,but basically right now the woodlot is being ruined (Its under forest management programme) and I am getting a tax break but not holding up my end of the bargain,because legally I cannot shot them,unless they are directly doing damage on MY LAND.Quote:
Originally Posted by SongDog
I would have to actually see one chewing on a tree on my land back 100 feet from the shoreline to shot it.Even then am I allowed to waste the pelt?
If your see them building it does that count as destroying? if they are building they are flooding when it floods it damages the property?
Knock out some of the dam when they are fixing it they are destroying your property. Do you really need to see them knock a tree down. The dam itself is damage to the property.
Seems like you need a few days to set up shop and watch them destroy the property watch them flood out your property.
Could that not give a clean pass when they are damaging property? What's causing the flooding the dam the dam will damage your property . I think there is away this route to take. .
The dam is damage you didn't put it there they are blocking and flooding it's is damaged the drain system .
I would think a working beaver is causing damage to your property. [emoji106]
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Our hardwoods are dying off from flooding from beavers. The farm across the road has massive drainage ditches and all the water on their side flows to our side and into the swamp. Swamp is over flooded and its spilling into the hardwoods. We could kill 10 beavers a year but new ones move in each year.
Good family friend that farms down the road is so mad at the big cash croppers across the road for their draining to our side, he traps, shoots beavers year round and on our property.
My buddy that traps that had his traps in the ditch on a sideroad. Lady seen a dead beaver in the trap and she swam out there to retrieve the beaver and trap. She is lucky she missed the other set trap about 4 feet away.
She called the police and MNR and wanted to trapper charged for trapping
Well Ministry just charged her for interfering with a trapping operation. I know this hippie, Shes the one that hated us for 30 years for hunting coyotes with dogs. She begged me to come to her property few winters ago and kill coyotes. No thanks I wouldnt hunt there if it was last property in Ontario after the way she treated us. We also gouge the living crap out of her for hay each year haha.
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Didn't know the dam was off you property [emoji28]. Just caught that.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishfood
Dig a new small pond on your property [emoji6]
"If you build it they will come" [emoji13]
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I wish the MNR would agree with you view.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishfood
That's essentially what the trapper I know did, without the gun. We made a hole in the dam and he set traps about 3-5 feet from the opening and both beavers were caught swimming towards the hole.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePal