Positive Side Effects of Cages
Besides the fact that cages go in fast and easy and rarely sprung, even if they are sprung it is usually not a beaver that did it. On the rare occasion that it is a beaver, that beaver still may be caught in the same cage when the traps are set at a different location in a different manner.
All that aside, since cages do not require, tying off of any kind with wire or other and don’t need staking or stabilizing either, they are difficult to spot by lay persons or even trappers because no one is looking for them. There is nothing to look for. There are no “tell tale” signs of them found with other methods. When a catch is made under water, out of sight, it “doesn’t exist.” This week I had 10 cages set in muddy clay water. Muddy water can be a plus. A trapper moved in on top of me, planted a half dozen 330 Conibears around the cages and had no idea the cages were in place though he would have had to almost step on one of them.
