Mink

[Grizzlybuiltcontracting]

Anyone use koro traps for mink? Was it effective? How did it go? Any pointers or tips for someone new to mink trapping?

[Norman89]

If you read back  through the threads from last year quite a few guys have been doing pretty well with the koros with skunk and marten and a few guys were trying for mink not sure if anybody connected but they won't have an issue dispatching a mink those little traps are rowdy 

[DishBogget]

I never set any for mink last year but I believe they’d do the job.


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[JakeLand]

Build boxes and brush them in or dig a cut out in the bank of the stream or slough and pretty much a pocket set

[JakeLand]

They work on marten so I know they will work on mink
Muskrat or duck would be your best bait

[LDennis24]

Did you guys see they are calling for almost all the mink in Denmark to be culled for fear of Coronavirus!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/09/denmark-drops-plans-for-mass-mink-cull-after-covid-mutation-fears

[JakeLand]

Yep hopefully it makes wild mink and others price to go up !!

[Humptulips]

They work on marten so I know they will work on mink
Muskrat or duck would be your best bait

I am not so sure they are going to work on mink. Mink are a lot tougher then marten so I do not think you can draw conclusions from any success marten trapping.
I do not know anyone who has caught a mink in one. The only way we will find out is with a little experimentation. I hope we will hear the results of anyone trying for mink.
My suggestion: I would set the traps where if they prove to be not lethal the mink would drown. Mink sets typically go near water anyway so turning it into a drowning set if the mink remains alive should be easy enough.

[Norman89]

Little miniature drowner rod would be very easy to make. Trap itself may be heavy enough if staked off in deeper water to act as drowner

[Cougartail]

I'll be setting a few land sets tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have an answer in a few days.

[JakeLand]

Marten are bigger and tougher then mink
It’ll take care of a wild mink no problem