Baiting Tunnels For Mink

[trenchfoot 4,243]

I've not seen any mink around our ponds since early spring, after trapping costantly for the last twelve moths with tunnel and cage traps. The wildfowl have done well, and good numbers have been coming in for feed. The rats have been doing well on the left overs as usual, but mk4 fenns in tunnels around the banks and waters edge have kept their numbers fairly low until recently. As they are picking up duck pellets, I sprinkled some floating carp pellets in the tunnels and its entrances these float for longer on the surface and stay in place well over night. Guess what the mink love 'em! in the last 5 days i've caught 6! out of 4 tunnel traps. and two of those were out of the same trap, an hour apart. (suppose its a bitch and kits that have wandered into to the void I created)

 

I've swapped the mk4's for mk6's just to ensure its all above board and humane.

 

anyone else had much success with carp pellets? I have tried all the usual baits in the past, but never with the strike rate that these pellets created

[air gun ant 1,666]

Never tried em mate but it seems to be working for you!!! Keep it up

[Froudy 40]

What kind of carp pellets are you using ?

 

Atb

 

Froudy

[trenchfoot 4,243]

What kind of carp pellets are you using ?

 

Atb

 

Froudy

It's just a plain bag, that the local fishery sells. fish based and float. The mink have quieten down, had just the one since but the rats are throwing themselves on the traps. I always have a few tunnels around the pig pen and chicken runs, and they catch rats most days. since baiting the tunnels I am emptying rats out of the traps three times a day!!! I knew there were a few knocking about but these pellets drive 'em mental