Post by: UrbanTrapper on April 28, 2016, 02:58:50 PM
Post by: JDHasty on April 28, 2016, 03:35:46 PM
Anyone ever trapped marmots/rock chucks? If so I'd like to learn what you did. I have one potential customer who wants marmots trapped. I've looked on here and Trapperman and haven't found anything yet.
Silage or grain is your friend is what the Mexicans tell me. Never trapped them.
Post by: pnwmtnmn on April 28, 2016, 04:02:38 PM
Post by: Kit Carson on April 28, 2016, 04:18:35 PM
For bait i'd try some flowers, seeds, or maybe fruit?
I read they hibernate from September to May so coming up here pretty soon seems like an ideal time to catch them waking up looking for an easy meal....My :twocents:
Good luck :tup:
Post by: JDHasty on April 28, 2016, 04:22:25 PM
Never seen or trapped one, but I'd try some cages (might have to be custom sized) with good cover over them. From what I've read/heard about rock chucks their burrows are up to 25 feet deep and are usually located under rocks.
For bait i'd try some flowers, seeds, or maybe fruit?
I read they hibernate from September to May so coming up here pretty soon seems like an ideal time to catch them waking up looking for an easy meal....My :twocents:
Good luck :tup:
They have been out for almost a month, but this is an early year. They will go underground in the summer and then will come back out for a couple weeks in Sept. Or maybe it is that they are nocturnal during the heat of the summer months and I don't see them when they are out at night. The damage doesn't show as vividly once the alfalfa is a certain height like it does before it really takes off, so it is conceivable that they are working it at night and I just don't see them until they are back out during the day in Sept.
Post by: JakeLand on April 28, 2016, 06:46:39 PM
Post by: JDHasty on April 28, 2016, 07:05:33 PM
I use to trap them for some farms over by Spokane along time ago and I always used 120 conibear traps at all den tunnels! With that being said I would say a smaller version of a swim through trap like for beaver maybe 8"x8" by 24" dbl door with a conibear trigger and set at the entrances it forces them to go through
That would work!
Post by: Humptulips on April 28, 2016, 07:40:06 PM
Post by: vandeman17 on April 28, 2016, 08:07:24 PM
Post by: UrbanTrapper on April 28, 2016, 10:26:01 PM
Post by: Kit Carson on April 28, 2016, 11:42:10 PM