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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: UrbanTrapper on December 21, 2015, 02:54:14 PM

Title: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: UrbanTrapper on December 21, 2015, 02:54:14 PM: Guess which one was in the trap today? Anybody know how to 'Break the Cycle of 'Possum'?
Title: Re: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: JakeLand on December 21, 2015, 05:04:50 PM: Well I'm guessing you got the grinner. When you find out how to keep the grinners out please let me know
Title: Re: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: winslow on December 21, 2015, 05:18:17 PM: Well, the cat did have four hours to make his decision before the possum took the bait. Maybe somebody has an idea to entice the cat in sooner?
Title: Re: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: UrbanTrapper on December 21, 2015, 05:22:12 PM: Yep. How many Wetside cat trappers feel visuals like feathers etc. are key to closing the deal with bobcats? I'm not using them yet this year.
Title: Re: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: winslow on December 21, 2015, 05:42:06 PM: Quote from: UrbanTrapper on December 21, 2015, 05:22:12 PM
Yep. How many Wetside cat trappers feel visuals like feathers etc. are key to closing the deal with bobcats? I'm not using them yet this year.
Mercer Lawing (www.cagingbobcats.com) says that a piece of feather boa in the back of the cage and some light skunk scent are heavy hitters with cats. He has caught a few. Lol.

The cats I've seen caught came to a big old chunk of beaver hanging in the back of the cage.
Title: Re: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: JakeLand on December 21, 2015, 06:42:03 PM: Beaver in the back and put a piece about the size of a wall nut right in front of the opening :tup:
I do think some feathers or a CD hanging from some fishing line does help and take some beaver castor and put some up a little high so the wind catches it
Title: Re: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: Cultusman on December 21, 2015, 07:44:41 PM: Quote from: JakeLand on December 21, 2015, 06:42:03 PM
Beaver in the back and put a piece about the size of a wall nut right in front of the opening :tup:
I do think some feathers or a CD hanging from some fishing line does help and take some beaver castor and put some up a little high so the wind catches it

:yeah: That is some good advise, I don't hang feathers but I do throw a handful in the trap and some outside.
The only way I know to keep the possum out is to go to a higher elevation where the don't live.
Title: Re: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: Triplej on December 22, 2015, 07:57:29 AM: This is the story of my cat trapping this year... except I have a possum that has devoured 4 quarter of a beaver and I have not yet caught him!!
Title: Re: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: winslow on December 22, 2015, 12:59:37 PM: We all suffer from the possum curse, I guess! This was my fifth possum of the year. I ate the last two, but this one was too old for that. And he didn't want to go...
Title: Re: The 'Possum' Curse
Post by: Humptulips on December 22, 2015, 06:29:30 PM: You release those 'possums they will only come back for seconds.