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Got me a mole today! It was pretty ripe...so maybe have been a few days old. It got caught right in neck. Quick death ensued. Great stuff! I'll have my invoice in the post later today. You will get paid when I get the rest of the family Lots of work left to do yet!

Got me a mole today! It was pretty ripe...so maybe have been a few days old. It got caught right in neck. Quick death ensued.

not sure....tunnels look awfully like mole tunnels. hopefully I will catch one soon. Now it is getting personal. :-)

I tried your suggestions. I placed per your directions and noticed that there was a little hole in the area I had placed the trap (24 hours after placing it). It looks like the mole hit the trigger (it was pivoted back) and he ended up tunneling up and creating a hole in the surface. This is the closest I came to catching one.

Thanks for the details and the images. The instructions on the nomol say to put the trigger closer to where the wires cross than to the prongs. I have seen several images that show this and a video. It didn't make sense to me to set the trigger so far back...but I followed the instructions. I will try your set up and hopefully come back with good results. Things are dry here now so not sure how long before I see more tunneling.

I'm setting the traps along a long run which is up against a gardening "separator" that separates the grass from gravel on the other side. They love digging there. The only thing I have noticed is that the traps might be closer to the surface after a few days than when I set them. So, maybe they are digging under the traps. I set the traps with the prongs down (nomol traps), but I don't get dig out the trench to the point the trap lays level. The back end of the trap is higher than the front, could that be the issue? Thanks for your help. I can try setting them with the forks up...thank

It is likely me, so if there is any helpful hints you guys have, please feel free to share. I have two types of traps that people say are good...so I should see some results. thanks

Not being funny but i would say good luck to em ...i think a lot of pest control is to underpriced.. I guess it depends on the kind of business one wants to run. If you want repeat customers, you treat them fairly. If your goal is to make as much money as you can on every call and you are not concerned about repeat customers or word of mouth, then you charge outrageous prices and deal with the consequences. Mole calls are a cash cow...the moles always return, so if you charge people fairly, they will continue to call you month after month. Otherwise, they will do what I'm doing.

Are the trapline and nomol traps supposed to lay level in the ground? I stick them in the hole, and often the back end of the trap is higher than the front as the hole is somewhat vertical. I'd like to get these traps to work since I can't find the Duffus traps locally. thanks

Yes they are...that is why I want to do it myself. That is the going rate around here. I have talked to several guys...all about the same price.

It is very expensive. They charge about $150-$200 of to "set up", then charge $75-$90 per animal they catch.It is a very good business model since the little guys come back within a few months. These are eastern nose moles. They don't have the star nose. The Duffus traps are interesting, but I haven't found any in the US. And the trapper that came to my house used trapline traps (from what I could tell) and they worked well for him. So, it must be something that I'm doing wrong...but I can't figure out what that is.

Hey Folks, I need some advice on catching moles. I had a pro catch 3 a few months ago, but it is cost prohibitive for me to keep using him and I really would prefer to do my own trapping just because. I bought some trapline traps and had no luck with them for several weeks. I followed the youtube videos done by the company...but no luck. I then bought the no-mole traps. Again, following the instructions and videos I have had no luck over the last week or so. Meanwhile, I'm finding more tunnels. Any advice you could give me would be appreciated. I'm starting to think I'm the proble