Le Braconnier

That discussion is typical of those on the French gardening forums, As soon as someone mentions moles you get all the beardy-weirdy types suggesting windmills, bottles on sticks and dog poo down the holes. Mind you, that's nothing compared to the outraged comments made when someone suggests trapping them

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Well, funny you should say that. I reckon the one that was the wrong way would have squeezed past the trigger somehow, at speed and dislodged the other trigger on its way through. I had this a while ago, I wanted a mole alive for something so when i saw a fresh hill being turned at the side of the road i stopped the car and dropped a 'weak and shit chinese trap that i carry for such occasion' into the run./A quick stamp later and the mole was caught,. but the wrong way around and fully alive......Funny things them moles ain't they! Ive had this a couple of times, le brac. I believe Darcys o

Never realised you could block members on here. Just blocked Walt so the forum should be a lot more sensible in future.

I've been clearing a large field working my way down from one end to the other. After nearly getting to the far end I had a walk back and saw new diggings in an area where I'd previously cleared so I popped a tunnel trap down. About three hours later while walking the dog she indicated the trap and I found a double capture, both facing the same way. I can only think that one of the moles reversed into the trap

Do you buy them from Walt-Mart?

I reckon he came on here as the great Messiah to teach you useless old lags a thing or two about what you are doing wrong. What he fails to acknowledge is that any pro' no matter what their trade will use the best tools for the job based on efficiency and longevity. If any of these Chinese traps were any good the pro' mole catchers would know about them and word would spread. I've had some really good advice from chaps on here in particular uncle pester, and you instinctively know when someone really knows what they are talking about. And you also get the bull schitters and Walts who are e

Matt is right. The pro' trappers will meet dozens of not hundreds of gardeners who have unsuccessfully tried to trap moles using cheap traps then had to call the experts in. And as for losing that many traps. Total nonsense. I've got loads of boar, foxes and badgers all around where I trap and all I've had is one tunnel trap moved a few feet then left. They don't even take the dead moles I leave behind. Of course if you can't remember where you've put them then you are bound to lose a few

Been getting doubles regularly since January including two doubles in the same trap & location in consecutive days and this week, two singles and a double in the same trap & location in three consecutive days. The last instance was two small moles followed by a double that would appear to be Mum & Dad

You've obviously not been keeping up. It is rubbish to suggest that you need expensive traps. Cheap Chinese traps are just as good. It's all in how you place your trap. Thats what i thought until Matt the Rat and others talked me into trying some. Cheap traps are shite. I totally agree. I must be doing something wrong because my expensive traps keep getting clogged up - with moles

You've obviously not been keeping up. It is rubbish to suggest that you need expensive traps. Cheap Chinese traps are just as good. It's all in how you place your trap.

Yep, then put him in a nice yorkshire pud and had him for my supper, Mmmmm POP goes the weasel... Just as long as it didn't go to waste or leave a bitter taste in your mouth. Only if you used beer batter

I agree. When I was asked to do some mole catching by the farmer here he bought the traps from a French garden centre. They were absolute schite. So I got him to agree to buying a few better traps. He paid for 4 cheap tunnel traps and two Talpex type bought from a web site claiming to be a pro' trapper who used these traps himself blah, blah, blah. The barrel traps lasted a couple of weeks and always got filled and the Talpex type less than a week. In the end I bought some Flatpack traps and some Talpex traps myself so I could use them off the farm for a bit of pocket money. I've never looked

Terrible here too. I've just walked the dog down to the river and I'm sweating cobs. Must be over 20 degrees.

Sounds like your traps are not very good. I struggled for months using cheap traps that were hampering my moling. After I bought some decent traps I really started making progress. I'd suggest that you buy a few tunnel traps from Flatpack and try them against your current traps. I'm sure that you'll see the difference in results.