SIDE by SIDE SETTING
Perhaps overlooked, and or taken for granted, are the very positive features of side by side setting of the Comstock Beaver Cage Traps. These swim through cage traps offer the only practical side by side setting of any type of trap in beaver trapping, allowing double, triple or unlimited side by side catching. These cage traps can be placed virtually anywhere you wish to set a trap on soft or hard bottom. Body grippers are incredibly limited in that aspect, as are snares. If there is a single run or location that could accept two body grippers side by side, in order to secure them the bottom has to be solid enough to hold a stake, but not too solid to prevent a stake from being driven, very limiting. The same goes for soft muck. Many times the bottom is either rocky, mucky, solid steel or concrete of a culvert, none of which will hold a stake. True, you can use stabilizes to place body grippers on a hard surface, but set side by side once a catch is made both traps will be involved in the catch and out of action, taking but one beaver with two traps. The same is true for snares set close together. Both will be involved in a single catch and out of commission at the location.
Independent of each other, these swim through cages can be set side by side anywhere, no matter what the bottom. The cage wire separates the two, making them independent of each other, able to make a catch without moving, shifting or effecting the other trap. In fact, where streams or runs are wide, there is no limit to how many may be set touching or nearly touching, two, three, four…
