yet ANOTHER reason i dont use braid very often ......

[genec]

AT SANTEE COOPER ONE TIME A FRIEND AND I THREW OUR LINE OVER A GATOR AND STARTED WINDING AND THE GATOR WAS LETTING US PULL HIM TOWARD BOAT,THEN I WAS GETTING SCARED AS HE WAS ABOUT 20 FEET AWAY AND I STARTED HOLLOWING TO SPEED UP TM FOR I WAS AT BACK AND THE NEAREST TO HIM AND FRIEND WAS LAUGHING TILL HE SAW HOW CLOSE THE GATOR HAD GOT TO ME AND SPEED UP MOTOR,THE HOOKS WERE HUNG ON HIS BACK,I THINK HE WAS LOOKING FOR A EASY MEAL

[keeferfish]

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[NIMROD]

About the only thing fit to eat on a beaver is the tail

The meat is good stuff , just take care to not contaminate meat with Castor gland (scent gland under tail ). We have eaten fried steaks or BBQ Beaver .

[NIMROD]

i held real still when i saw it coming ....had on a camo jacket and brown levis ....guess i blended in ?
anyway i shooed it away when it began chewing on the line right after i took the the photo
and it swam off rather slowly and crawled up on a rock about 10 yards away
and then just kinda looked at me for a long minute or 2 ....
kinda gave me the willys a bit even though it was small .....i got bit real bad by a rat as a kid
and FOR SURE have not cared for rodents much ever since ....
i will say in 50 plus years a chasing critters and such i aint never seen nothing quite like that
thanks for the comments and reads yawl ....

Beavers have small eyes and poor eye sight , you don't move and they usually don't reconize you as a danger . Thanks for a cool story .

[Ketchn]

Beavers have small eyes and poor eye sight , you don't move and they usually don't reconize you as a danger . Thanks for a cool story .

.....I would guess they don't see very well for sure ....
I had a really large one come up to me one night a year ago er so ...
like the 50 pounder size ....and walk right up the bank ...chew down a small tree
and then drag it right past me and swim off to the boat ramp 40 yards away ....
and go right up under the boat ramp with it ....
to dark to get photos but it was interesting to say the least ....
and I think that you know beaver what stole my bamboo I sank there as well ...
or a 2 legger got it ....I aint sure on that one ....but it wasn't there for 2 days before it was gone ....LOL