Nomol Traps

[Matt 160]

OK, cards on the table, the majority of my workload these days is on upland farms... BUT, I've done more than my share of garden (small) type jobs over the years.

 

Hand on heart; I've never found a job that I couldn't use a Duffus on. Fair enough, I've had the odd run that a trap wouldn't fit into, but I've always found that if you open your mind and widen your outlook, there's usually another run not a million miles away that a Duffus trap will fit into...

 

The simple fact is that I'm a lazy fecker, and I can't be arsed with sifting through a bucket of traps looking for one that 'fits' the run I've found......... if a Duffus won't fit then I heel it in and move on

 

Just my take on things lads

[bryn27 89]

Every time I see a new trap like the No-Mole hit the UK market and the way people fall for them I wonder if I'm a dinosaur sticking to my Duffus traps....

 

I keep thinking that I'd quite like to try this stuff out, and even just have it for my (feeble) collection, but then when it comes down to it, I just reach for the Duffus..

 

Having said all that, I've just forked out for a few genuine Talpex traps to shove into any blocked traps I get this year.

 

I've got 300 duffus traps washed, bucketed up, and ready to go. I don't see the point in forking out hard earned coin for traps that look interesting, but in reality will rarely get used

Matt I had 6 blocked today in the same runs I've caught in. this be down to the amount of water flowing perhaps?

[socks 32,253]

I have just started a garden job I will take a picture by picture story of the way I set them and catch with them .......

[bryn27 89]

Thanks Socks. just probs me being a thick feck lol.

[Matt 160]

 

Every time I see a new trap like the No-Mole hit the UK market and the way people fall for them I wonder if I'm a dinosaur sticking to my Duffus traps....

 

I keep thinking that I'd quite like to try this stuff out, and even just have it for my (feeble) collection, but then when it comes down to it, I just reach for the Duffus..

 

Having said all that, I've just forked out for a few genuine Talpex traps to shove into any blocked traps I get this year.

 

I've got 300 duffus traps washed, bucketed up, and ready to go. I don't see the point in forking out hard earned coin for traps that look interesting, but in reality will rarely get used

Matt I had 6 blocked today in the same runs I've caught in. this be down to the amount of water flowing perhaps?

 

 

No, it's nothing to do with the water

 

I've caught lots and lots of moles in runs that are completely flooded.

 

I'd look at how you've reset the traps when you removed your initial capture if I were you

[bryn27 89]

This is flowing water Matt not just flooded still ground level. Most of the snow gone now but the water table is at peak as it runs off the fell.

[bryn27 89]

I'll take your advice though Matt cheers.

[Matt 160]

This is flowing water Matt not just flooded still ground level. Most of the snow gone now but the water table is at peak as it runs off the fell.

Exactly the type of ground I'm talking about

[J Darcy 5,871]

 

Every time I see a new trap like the No-Mole hit the UK market and the way people fall for them I wonder if I'm a dinosaur sticking to my Duffus traps....

 

I keep thinking that I'd quite like to try this stuff out, and even just have it for my (feeble) collection, but then when it comes down to it, I just reach for the Duffus..

 

Having said all that, I've just forked out for a few genuine Talpex traps to shove into any blocked traps I get this year.

 

I've got 300 duffus traps washed, bucketed up, and ready to go. I don't see the point in forking out hard earned coin for traps that look interesting, but in reality will rarely get used

Matt I had 6 blocked today in the same runs I've caught in. this be down to the amount of water flowing perhaps?

 

They're getting blocked because the mole knows that there's something amiss, you're traps are not tuned fine enough.. Use a Talpex. OR, prepare your duffus run and then put a bit of spoil in the bottom before you set the trap...

[Mr Muddy 141]

I've caught lots and lots of moles in runs that are completely flooded.

 

Matt, can I ask were the runs flooded when you set the traps?

 

I've been leaving any that have more than a bit of water in them. Should I be setting the traps anyway?

[bryn27 89]

Thanks all I have no probs with talpax and duffus,just these bloody nomole things. I'll try harder and iron out what I'm doing wrong this week before the snow comes.

[Matt 160]

 

I've caught lots and lots of moles in runs that are completely flooded.

Matt, can I ask were the runs flooded when you set the traps?

 

I've been leaving any that have more than a bit of water in them. Should I be setting the traps anyway?

 

Yes

 

As I said in an earlier post this evening; I'm a lazy fecker.....

 

If I go to the trouble of dropping to my knees to pray to the God of Molecatchers, and open up a run; if a trap will go in............... it does.

 

I had one run last January that was full of running water. I pushed the trap in, and held little hope; but that run nearly paid my mortgage that month

[bryn27 89]

Thank Christ I don't have a mortgage I'd be in cardboard city lol.

[Matt 160]

Thank Christ I don't have a mortgage I'd be in cardboard city lol.

I do live in Cardboard City; whilst my wife lives in the house I pay a mortgage on.......

[bryn27 89]

Just to clarify for everyone, mole catching is a hobby to me and not my goal as a fulltime occupation. I'm ok as I am with other things regards the struggle of day to day living, tis just a string to put to my bow as old age approaches as it does eventually to all of us.