I picked up a large pond, like a lake, and there’s rat dens in several places. Am I better off putting in a Jon boat than trying to walk the banks. Do you guys trap over the side of the boat or park it and get out? No houses, there was one and some kids destroyed it but I can see some muddy bank runs. I haven’t rat trapped a big pond like this in years. I want to do a little thinking on stakes and traps and try to have one big rat night. There’s a few beaver too but they’ve been fooled with in the past and are bodygrip shy. Be a foothold proposition.
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I have done both if it’s decent walking I’d just as soon walk it.
I have a bunch of baccer sticks rigged with 110s already wired on and I have some with stoploss and 1.5 longs I just take a bundle over my shoulder like we did when we would drop sticks in the field I walk the bank and set ever run den and toilet I can.
Prolly never get to do it again but it sure was fun when I could.
Cokt
That’s the kind of info I was wanting. It’s like a park on one side and heavy brush on the other. Backer sticks are a good idea and I’ll use ribbon. The landowner lives right there. Looking forward to an actual rat line if just for a couple days
As far as the boat thang I do allot of it it’ much easier to stand on the ground it don’t move, I’d walk the park and boat the brush sound like to me.
How do you attach yourv110’s to the sticks?
I drill a hole and use 14ga wire
I used them a lot at one point I’ve got about 65 or 70 made up there in the rails up in my barn know gathering dust.
Colt
When I get them attached I wrap them around the stick then I squeeze the spring and clamp the jaws on the end of the stick and that way the don’t get all tangled zoom in on that picture and you can see what I did.
I’ve held a couple of otter in 1.5s like that before
X 2 what Colt said
I get way more enjoyment and much easier
To walk a bank when you can
I think the majority of the time on this venture I’ll walk the bank. Most of it is like a golf course. The rough part only I may put in a small Jon. Thats where the beaver dens are and loud stomping around the bank holes is no good.
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I’m certain the beaver are bodygrip shy. I’ll be doing snares or Dale Billingsley style footholds.
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Steve have you tried the muskrat sets using hagz brackets and the fiberglass fence posts yet? I found really good success with them when bank trapping and not being able to reach the huts or dens.
I have and I like them. I only have a few right now though. I ought to get another dozen for that place.
You use a baited set with those?
And if so what’s best
They make a little bait clip to go with them. I assume a slice of carrot, turnip or parsnip.
I bought those brackets a few years ago
Just don’t think of using them
Time to brake em out
Thanks