I've done this loads of times, and several times on film too. I was once in a garden where the homeowner had been trying for a long time to get rid of this mole. He'd been using those huge monstrosities that stick out of the ground a foot. Anyway, I put a trap in, just covered it with soil and ...PING!. I pulled out a live mole. My next venture is to try and capture a coloured mole alive, and I know just the spot for it....