Best Tunnel For Stoat Trapping

[Peter Shorrock 5]

Im using pheasant chick breast. Diced up under the plate and moss surrounding the trap leaving only the plate visible. In a stone tunnel with multiple entrances

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

Peter, if you're experiencing the sort of heat I am? Meat will go off over night in it. That'd actually do more to put a stoat off.

 

Anyway, I reckon if ye set a Snap E box at the tunnel entrance and baited That with meat, you'd get a Wood Mouse over night.

 

Personally, I'd do away with the bait and the moss. Too much like hard work. Tunnel only needs two holes. Long as the stoat can see light at the other end, it's a matter of self respect that he investigate. And no alien object laying in his path is going to stop him. Neatly surrounded in moss or not.

[cock grouse 15]

Don't agree with that. When your dealing with stoats through the winter and early spring they are old and wise and I personally think the more you camouflage your trap the more chance you have of getting that savvy stoat you've been after all winter. However maybe it's not that important this time of year but I still cover them.

[Matt 160]

Pull some skin off the breast of a dead poult and put that on the trap plate.

 

As Pete says, make sure it's a simple run through, and don't bury the trap.

[Lab 10,979]

Holes in Walls are the best IMO...... Rabbit guts, trap on top.... Never fails..:-)

[gonetoearth 5,144]

Never baited a trap in me life. The tunnel is enough to entice stoats or weasels although in spring if I ever caught a bitch I always wiped it rear on the plate scent marking always brought its dividends

Edited July 7, 2013 by Matt the Rat