It is always quiet on the fur market front when harvesting seasons are on. Most trappers are busy in the fields and forest chasing furbearers, and on the buying front, there is always a lull, a slow time in the trade. [Read More]
Tag Archives: Beaver Trapping
Fur Market Report November 2023: Prices to Expect As Trapping Season Begins
Beavers remain the safest bet for respectable fur market prices — and this is good news for a lot of trappers! [Read More]
Fur Market Report October 2023: Beavers Are Worth How Much?
Many trappers have been talking about beaver prices in the fur market. Small beavers, large beavers, damaged beavers, all selling at prices much higher than we have experienced in the past few years. [Read More]
Fur Market Report Summer 2023: A Breath of Fresh Air on Our Trade — Finally!
Finally! Yes, finally, some positive news came in the world of wild fur sales! Thanks to the international fur auction held by Fur Harvesters Auctions, we can report some optimism and advancing prices. [Read More]
Fur Market Report April-May 2023: COVID, War, China & Russia Continue to Influence
April and May are months of reflection and planning. Quality skins are the last ones to lose their value when the fur market dips, and the first one to regain it when markets recover, so a strategy aimed at quality is much better than one aimed at large numbers of sub-prime skins. [Read More]
Spring Beaver Trapping Tactics
The challenging conditions of trapping beavers as winter turns to spring keep the author heading back out to the creeks, sloughs and ponds every year. Learn the sets that collect the castor despite the weather. [Read More]
Trapping Gear: J3 Outdoorz HAGz Beaver Rod Ends
The HAGz Beaver Rod Ends (both stake and stop ends) were designed to work seamlessly with the HAGz® Universal Lock, on 1/2-inch Fiberglass Beaver Rods. As with all HAGz Trapping Products by J3 Outdoorz, they are built with efficiency, quality and the trapper in mind, and manufactured here in the U.S.A. [Read More]
All About Trap Setters
Over the past few years, rather than not trapping, the author has started to rely on trap setters to get sets in the ground. It’s hell to get old, but supposedly we should get wiser, so setting tools are now a vital part of his set bucket. [Read More]
Don’t Rule Out Cage Traps
There is a cage trap for just about everything from chipmunks to coyotes. They are easy to set and bait, and they help trappers be selective with what they keep. In today’s crazy fur market, it doesn’t hurt to be able to keep only the best fur, and release the rest. [Read More]
Fur Market Report April-May 2021: Vaccines & Castor Glands, Hot Topics This Spring
The year 2020 is finally over and for many people, it will be a year to forget. The COVID-19 pandemic spread quickly in March of 2020, and we are now basically one year later and still trying to overcome this invisible enemy. Luckily for most of us, trapping was still an option, and it was a fantastic activity when you could hardly do anything indoors anyway. [Read More]