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Offline UrbanTrapper

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Re: Need help with colony sets
« Reply #75 on: February 01, 2013, 10:48:06 AM »
Aaaaahhhhh.......... Wouldn't it suck if it was so easy? I'm scratching my head a bit right now too. I was catching most of my rats in den sets. Now I'm catching ALL of them in runs. I would like to lay all of them in one or the other but don't dare to. Has your floater been producing?
Try some 12 x 12 to 8 x 8 cages baited with sliced apples on the mud banks right next to the water under bridges.  Put a couple of apple pieces in the water and near the trap entrance so they get the idea.  I think the rats can smell the apples well and they feel comfortable coming out of the water under bridges. 

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Re: Need help with colony sets
« Reply #76 on: February 03, 2013, 03:20:49 PM »
I am truly struggling now. For some reason my numbers have seriously dropped off. I moved to bigger water but its too deep to walk in a lot of places and to small for a boat. If I could figure out the floaters and baited dry baited sets I think I would be back into them.

WAUrbanTrapper,

The 12x12 and 8x8 traps you are referring to are they colony traps or live traps? I haven't tried setting traps on the dry ground before.

Doug
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Re: Need help with colony sets
« Reply #77 on: February 03, 2013, 09:44:15 PM »

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Re: Need help with colony sets
« Reply #78 on: February 03, 2013, 09:53:29 PM »
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