Non grip traps (muskrat float)

[eburgtrapper]

I was wondering if any of you guys have used their floating muskrat trap, if you like it and how to get ahold of them. I've tried calling a couple times but can't get a call back.

[Jonathan_S]

I've made my own 

They work good but are difficult to keep disguised.  Unless there are no good places to set them, I prefer regular colony traps.

[Bigshooter]

My trapping partner has a couple.  We have not caught any in them.  But the guy that makes them catches a lot in them.  I can't remember his name right now for some reason but my trapping partner knows him well.  I don't know if he is still making them or not.  He is moving away from WA and was selling all of his cage traps last I heard.

[UrbanTrapper]

His name is Mike Mattney.  I bought one of his traps and it catches rats.  I think it works best closer to spring-time when the rats seem more apt to climb up on floats.

[-Trap_addicT-]

They work great. The only thing with Matneys trap design is that the door in the front has gaps big enough to let young/small rats in and out. So, if you're using them for harvesting fur, they work great. Not so well if you are in nuisance trapper, trying to trap an entire population out of one area. I've had more success in the fall.

[Trapper John]

Hi name is Mike Matney.  His information is in our newsletter (The Fur Shed)

His traps work pretty dawn good  maybe to go
I have a couple of them and they do catch rats.

Mike caught something like 750 rats in three weeks last year so I would pick up a couple and give them a try.
If you can't afford the cost of them he has a rent to own plan to help trappers.  Its a deal worth looking into.
JC   

[bear hunter]

PVC plus caps attach it to trap and wa la a floating trap. 

[Ridgeratt]

This person.

[Cougartail]

Floats have never worked for me. Colony traps have.

Like to try Koro's and see. Anybody have luck with them?

[lewy]

Never had much luck with floats. I wish I did because the concept would be great in certain circumstances

[Norman89]

I have a variant of mikes floats, and a variant of trapper johns version that I made several of. They absolutely work, but it has to be a populated spot with rats that climb regularly up on things Iv definitely ran into rat populations that just disregard the traps completely and with my own floats side by side with Matt’s, his will out perform mine every single time for some reason, and I think it is because his are covered and mine are open. I haven’t had time to test the theory yet though

Floating repeating colony trap