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Originally Posted by nube
For bait I use carrots. It is cheap. I also use a lure from Halfords in a bottle and an orange / pink label that smells like peppermint. It is the lure I found to be the most help Pears could get pricey
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I put a piece of carrot on the trigger of my 110's on my float sets. The pears that I'm using are from our tree out back so they are free. They're only small compared to what you see in the stores but they have a strong, pleasant smell. I still have 3 shopping bags of them. Thanks for the tip on the peppermint scent, I'll remember that for the future.
I just got back from my check, having a coffee and then it's out to the skinning shed to flesh/board about 30 of my Spring rats that I had in the freezer. I got 0 rats out of my 12 float sets in the ditch.....it had iced over. I'll be moving those sets to the large slew Monday. There are too many duck/goose hunters out there on the weekend and I'd like to be as discrete as possible. I got 2 rats in my colony traps at a 3rd location and I'll be putting out more of them on Monday.
As for my 12 float sets in the large slough, first I checked 2 sets about 100 yards away from the other 10 and,........nothing. I went to check the other 10 sets and I caught 14 rats......Nice! Wanna guess where my sets from the ditch are going.....lol! Total today......16 but once I adjust things I should be able to improve a lot on that.
Lesson learned......If using leg hold traps on float sets make sure to put a good pile of weeds between the two traps as a barrier otherwise one trapped rat may set off the second trap before jumping off the float.
While scouting around the slough looking for a good location to put my 12 sets from the ditch I found this bad boy.
