Post by: nategood21 on January 17, 2013, 03:24:53 PM
Post by: pnwmtnmn on January 17, 2013, 03:54:42 PM
Post by: nategood21 on January 17, 2013, 05:03:27 PM
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Post by: 3nails on January 19, 2013, 08:34:51 PM
Post by: dayn on January 19, 2013, 10:50:09 PM
Post by: pnwmtnmn on January 23, 2013, 01:49:40 PM
Ive seen em in there but i thought you couldn't trap in there. is there a way to make a floating colony trap concealed? was gonna throw some apples in it. but don't want ppl messing with it
Those old rules/laws are for the old foothold traps. The cage traps are legal in cities, you just have to have the permission of the park managers. At the Rock Island golf course find the course maintenance man and ask if you can trap the ponds for Muskrats and you should have permission to walk along the banks of the ponds. On the ponds that have public fishing and access a small boat and you're good to go.
Post by: pnwmtnmn on January 23, 2013, 01:51:28 PM
I always thought(in theory of course) if you boated out on a pond or lake, and found a patch of cattails that extended 10 to 20 feet from the shore, to take some good loppers and cut a trail back into the cattails toward shore a good 4 or 5 feet, anchor your float off to side cattails or use an anchor, and cover the floating colony with the cut cattails it might be a good hidden trap and the muskrat would investigate the new swim/runway, this is all of course speculation on my part, Kip probably has more knowledge than anyone about this so I would defer to him..
Dayn you have it right.
Post by: nategood21 on January 23, 2013, 02:24:25 PM