Mink

[borderboy 80]

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Do you mean the rat hounds?? Our lot use terriers to mink as the mink use drains alot, generally they bolt them to hounds or get the drain rods if the drain is too small!! The stinks the worst bit about them!! :sick:

[pickaxe 23]

whats the score with hunting mink now can't find anything about them in the new "Law"

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Used to do mink....retrained hounds for rats now :whistle:

[borderboy 80]

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Just follow a fair bit have done for a fair few seasons

 

Never hunted rat...always hunted mink!! we will see what happens with the ban this season

[borderboy 80]

[goslht 0]

Just to be a bit of a T**T but it is illegal under the ban...

 

Used to do a lot before the ban. Of course wouldn't do It anymore.... ;-)

[dillan 19]

whats the score with hunting mink now can't find anything about them in the new "Law"

 

See pinned regarding law

 

[goldfinch2007 2,332]

can use 2 dogs to flush to gun carry a gun

[Flamin'Nora! 50]

I thought mink were a pest species due to most being escaped into the wild from fur farms its crazy they are protected under this ban they can cause a lot of damage for a small animal

[AMADORE 5]

Flushing with a pair of terriers to the gun ..is what i do and im a professional river keeper with ten miles 3 lakes to protect . My pack of plummers "the nether wyresdale mink hunt" hunted the river wyre to the horn pre ban and did well.Great sport. But now we use 2 and then swop over the leads all in all the pack gets worked .

 

Its been a bad 18months on this river for mink. Don't know why but we seem to be getting more than our fare share.

 

 

This spot on the river is where nuttal used his terriers for the kendal and district otter hounds i had a long chat about where on th eriver thye hunted an dhe told me many places that now hol;d mink ..but then held otter.

 

this is summer.

 

and winter

 

 

up a tree terriers dont climb so well!

 

big dog mink

 

 

 

TEACHING THE PACK THE SCENT OF THE MINK LETTING THEM RAG A SHOT MINK IS A GOOD WAY .

Edited February 15, 2010 by AMADORE

[AMADORE 5]

They can get into some real tight spaces to

 

 

 

MARKING A TRAPED MINK IN THE BOATHOUSE TRAP

 

Edited February 15, 2010 by AMADORE

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Qualiy posting there mate .We would have to watch out for otters if we tried that around us .Otters are more commen than mink now in the South West.

[AMADORE 5]

So far we are lucky we have not had any otters about for sometime, on the river but we do get them within 6 miles on a canal..it will be a nightmare if they coem here.I have to much land to watch now for mink. Im told we have had some dropped off in the area released etc and i see footprints but being very nomadic i doubt we willbump into them as regular as mink. If you have mink then no otters if otters no mink, is the general rule due to territory.

Edited February 15, 2010 by AMADORE