Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2007 1:28:16 GMT -5
Steep bank rat set
Stablize the trap with some sticks about 3" or so underwater. with your lure stick (or bait) a few inches over the water. The idea is the rat comes swimming along, see's(or smells) the stick and starts to look for something to step up on. I have used this a bit, and it does work.
Colony Trap set..
This set was in front of a den enternce just @8" lower then the trap is in this picture. I added alot of sticks to the waters top, resting on the trap. This helps encourage the rats to go to the bottom to enter the den, as some rats will wait to the last moment to dive to the hole, thus putting them on top of the trap instead of in it. I took a total of 11 rats out of this one set over the course of a week.
Blind sets..
These can be set in runs, or den enternces, as well as feedbeds. Here is a picture when the water dropped out of a den enternce..
Now usually this would be underwater, and unviewable. This picture was tooken in the summer time, behind my house when the ditch was pumped LOW. Runs are about the same size as the den enternces. The stick is used to stablize the trap. No guiding is needed or dive sticks.
Feedbeds..
Afain, this water has dropped..
Now, normally this trap would be JUST under water, or if a shelf was available, sitting on the shelf. The most important thing is to get the trap where the rats will be entering or exiting the water. This is a very wide area, and can be funneled down to force them into the trap.
Floats..
I am sure somebody can chime in with a few pictures of muskrat floats..
For the most part..lure is not needed for trapping rats. I honestly believe that you can be a successfull rat trapper without the aid of lures or baits.
Dan
Stablize the trap with some sticks about 3" or so underwater. with your lure stick (or bait) a few inches over the water. The idea is the rat comes swimming along, see's(or smells) the stick and starts to look for something to step up on. I have used this a bit, and it does work.
Colony Trap set..
This set was in front of a den enternce just @8" lower then the trap is in this picture. I added alot of sticks to the waters top, resting on the trap. This helps encourage the rats to go to the bottom to enter the den, as some rats will wait to the last moment to dive to the hole, thus putting them on top of the trap instead of in it. I took a total of 11 rats out of this one set over the course of a week.
Blind sets..
These can be set in runs, or den enternces, as well as feedbeds. Here is a picture when the water dropped out of a den enternce..
Now usually this would be underwater, and unviewable. This picture was tooken in the summer time, behind my house when the ditch was pumped LOW. Runs are about the same size as the den enternces. The stick is used to stablize the trap. No guiding is needed or dive sticks.
Feedbeds..
Afain, this water has dropped..
Now, normally this trap would be JUST under water, or if a shelf was available, sitting on the shelf. The most important thing is to get the trap where the rats will be entering or exiting the water. This is a very wide area, and can be funneled down to force them into the trap.
Floats..
I am sure somebody can chime in with a few pictures of muskrat floats..
For the most part..lure is not needed for trapping rats. I honestly believe that you can be a successfull rat trapper without the aid of lures or baits.
Dan