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Future catcher in the making. Will undercut the lot of us as well. 10 moles for a yogurt.

Looks to be some good eatin on that Even pictures get my skin crawling. what bait are you using for them there fenn traps?

Second-hand bookshops are a treasure trove for hunting books as let's face it, no publisher is going to take on a new book on the topic these days as the readership pool is somewhat diminished from days gone by. Got a real gem of a second-hand bookshop in our city and managed to pick up The Terrier's Vocation by Geoffrey Sparrow (1989 reprint from 1949) and Sporting Terriers by Pierce O'Connor (2001 reprint from 1929).

It’s hard, no bones about it. started whilst working full time with a two hour commute so that meant evening and weekends plus I’d take annual leave to do farms. Finishing a day’s work to put on a head torch and head out into the dark wet nights can be the last thing in your mind. I did my first farms for £4 a mole to cover traps and get some proper ground. You can learn in gardens and they are hard sometimes within patios in the way etc so fields where can see how they move about is a good base to build from. More traps bought every other month and your setting speed increases. O

Awful awful awful. Bought one with 13K on the clock. Horrifically failed it's MOT the next year and cost about £1.5 to put right. Had to have a new steering rack not long after. Back seat release failed. Wing mirror glass smashed and they don't do just the glass so wanted to charge me for a full wing mirror unit. Headlights burnt out. Had to take off the front of the vehicle to change the light bulb - £230. Failed the MOT again on all bushes and front suspension spring even though it had barely done any rough work. DPF failed to recycle and clogged up

The worst attempt I have ever encountered for getting shut of moles was for a customer that stated "I am calling you as a last resort", so you just know they've been on the deep dark web. Turn up to find a garden riddled with hills and those repellent things which are an absolute joke but at the same time I wish I'd have invented them as I'd be living the dream on a tropical island by now. So we get talking and I point out how crap the repellent things are and he starts reeling off what research he'd done and what he'd tried - garlic bulbs, washing up powered, empty milk bottles in t

1.) Find tunnel. 2.) Dig hole. 3.) Put trap in hole. 4.) Say three hail Mary's and fours our father's backwards out of the left side of your mouth missing out every alternate word whilst winking your right eye and turning your left forefinger in your right ear hole.. 5.) Take dead mole out of trap. Why the struggle?

Job done and post filled.

Save your money to be on kit and spend it on casting lessons is my advice. you could have full set up for £60 or £600+ but without learning how to cast you’ll b frustrated in no time. where abouts are you as I can teach you and take you out with my gear first like I’ve done with numerous folk and they’ve all become avid fly fishers. Once you learn to cast properly it matters not what price you pay for kit to start out. if you’re a fair old road away I can still tie you some flees and advise you on how and when to deploy them. PM me.

Get a crow and slap some tipex on it. in all seriousness, put a Newcastle Utd fan in it. just kidding, West Brom fans work best.

Nicepix, I’m a firm believer that if there is enough food they will breed more than once, similar to how owls have multiple clutches when the vole population is going through a boom. I can certainly believe that they can breed so prolifically over there due to the favourable climate in certain areas.

The only problem with that story is the bit where the guy reckoned he had moles in the scissor traps as cat attractant to begin with ?? The amount of time it takes to faff about with those things in order to persuade a mole to entertain the idea that “everything is alright, just a bit of muck in my tunnel”. Just not worth the effort and aggro of returning time and again to filled in traps or they’ve gone off but are so piss weak the mole sees it as an opportunity for some gym time or has casually walked through before the jaws have time to hug it. Caught a fair number in scissor traps but

Trap of choice is tunnel trap. Quick to set, quick to check and quick to pick back out again. Also two putange weigh about the same as two or three tunnel traps so for ease of carting they are ideal.

Around a fifth of my traps are putange. Don’t half come in handy at times but obviously not my “go to” choice of trap.

Had a chat with a farmer who has 300 acres he needs clearing but he's out of my region so I was hoping there was someone on here who might want to earn a few quid. The farm in question is in Alford, Lincolnshire. PM me if you're interested.