eric
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Post by eric on Aug 6, 2009 7:47:11 GMT -6
Need some help getting rid of some muskrats. I have a 3 acre pond and have some muskrats I'm worried will breach the dam if I don't get them out. Problem is, can't find any runs or holes due to the abundance of vegetation this time of year and no huts. Shooting is not an option. What would be the best way to trap these animals in a timely manner?
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Post by makete on Aug 9, 2009 7:34:35 GMT -6
Have you tried anything yet? Floats?
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Post by trappnman on Aug 9, 2009 11:07:23 GMT -6
make some blind pockets on the dam side- remove vegitation around the pocket, so it has good eye appeal. te dam will be the deepest water more than likely, and that where the rats most likely ARE denning-
but there sohuld be sign- they have to eat, they have to poop.
simple floats seem to work well in ponds, esp ponds w/o any other pull out places-
I'd also try the old classic- a slit willow poking out of the water at an angle, trap (1.5 long works well here, but shouldn't matter) put the slit a few inches underwater w/ trap slid in slit-
many years ago, tried corn on 330s for beaver underwater- great rat set!
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Post by northof50 on Aug 10, 2009 22:35:22 GMT -6
Train a dog to smell the tunnels on the dykes. Use a spear to locate the tunnel ( old weedwacker, sharpened point, blade taken off) , then conibear the holes. Like pocket gopher trapping, UPSCALED.
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Post by trappnman on Aug 14, 2009 18:10:17 GMT -6
Train a dog to smell the tunnels on the dykesyou Canucks.......! 
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Post by Darcy Alkerton on Oct 9, 2009 4:59:42 GMT -6
Eric
We work in sewage lagoons and a long parks where the muskrats are causing problems and if the conventional methods did not work then we used repeating floater cage traps and placed them just outside the vegetation area where the open water starts. They are slow at some times of years but very effecient if left in place.
Good luck,
Darcy
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