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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: npaull on October 17, 2018, 06:34:26 PM

Title: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: npaull on October 17, 2018, 06:34:26 PM: Well with the cold weather a few rats moved into the basement. Got traps out, usually use peanut butter, but not much activity.

Any suggestions on good baits for rats other than peanut butter?
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: skipjack on October 17, 2018, 06:41:50 PM: I use the just one bite blocks you screw to the wall so they have to eat it.. seems to work good
Another suggestion.. one time I bought an electric one at home depot it is a small enclosed black one.. impulse buy so I opened the box carefully knowing it was going back. Put a little peanut butter in the back and it works great..just pick it up and dump them out.. caught a packrat in it once that was huge.. deader than a mackerel..
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: Humptulips on October 17, 2018, 06:53:52 PM: Try a piece of fresh cut onion. Bacon good too, fried is better. Fried bacon rind better yet.
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on October 17, 2018, 07:03:57 PM: If you have pets this a good way. I’ve done it and it works .👍
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: Katmai Guy on October 17, 2018, 07:07:05 PM: My garage was infested with rats last winter, went and bought some just one bite and it worked fantastic. There is no evidence of any rats over the summer or yet this fall.
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Post by: branches on October 17, 2018, 07:07:44 PM: Bird seed with a small amount of Adams peanut butter. The black sunflower seeds seem to do well.
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Post by: WSU on October 17, 2018, 07:17:13 PM: I have constant problems with them where I live. I have the block baits out and they work well
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Post by: Smokepole on October 17, 2018, 08:00:22 PM: If you are using a long spring leg hold trap, CELERY is a great bait. Fasten stalks of celery to the bottom of the trap using electrical tape. Poke the celery with a knife to make it smell strong. Set the trap. I usually catch a pack rat by midnight. If they are Norway rats, boy they can be tough at times, but celery still works on them. Lettuce, too. Especially in winter.
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: eastsidemallard74 on October 18, 2018, 03:26:47 PM: We use tomcat, buy a bag every year, seem to be less and less. I throw them all over our shop. 3 years ago I'd find 20-30 field mice, now I'm lucky to see 2/3.
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: slowhand on October 18, 2018, 03:35:34 PM: Quote from: npaull on October 17, 2018, 06:34:26 PM
Well with the cold weather a few rats moved into the basement. Got traps out, usually use peanut butter, but not much activity.

Any suggestions on good baits for rats other than peanut butter?
The guy We had come out used grape flavor bubble gum. He said He has yet to see something work better.
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: tlbradford on October 18, 2018, 04:49:51 PM: I am normally a peanut butter guy as well, but if that doesn't work my back-up is cherry vicks cough drops. I found a bag in the garage completely shredded and eaten a few years back so I used it as bait. Crush it and lick a piece and it is glued to the trigger. I was able to reuse 3 to 4 times.
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: Stein on October 18, 2018, 05:26:36 PM: If you are using a snap trap, try hot gluing whatever kind of cereal you have on hand. It stays on forever, doesn't dry out and makes them really work on it which increases the trips you get.

Whatever you do, don't stumble across the guy on YouTube with the mouse and rat trapping channel, you will never get that time back.
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: rasbo on October 18, 2018, 05:32:54 PM: Toilet paper, works awesome
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Post by: Fl0und3rz on October 18, 2018, 08:06:13 PM: PAC donations.
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: tlbradford on October 19, 2018, 10:45:15 AM: Quote from: Stein on October 18, 2018, 05:26:36 PM
If you are using a snap trap, try hot gluing whatever kind of cereal you have on hand. It stays on forever, doesn't dry out and makes them really work on it which increases the trips you get.

Whatever you do, don't stumble across the guy on YouTube with the mouse and rat trapping channel, you will never get that time back.

Don't listen to Stein. It is quality entertainment. I was going to do the glass bowl full of peanut oil but my wife asked me what I was doing and put the kibosh to mice in one of her bowls.
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: singleshot12 on October 19, 2018, 11:12:30 AM: Quote from: rasbo on October 18, 2018, 05:32:54 PM
Toilet paper, works awesome

New toilet paper?
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: Knocker of rocks on October 19, 2018, 11:51:34 AM: The vet stressed to us the importance of using anti-coagulant baits versus nerve agents. If a pet eats some bait, the Drs. known how to reverse the effects of anti-coagulants with good success. And a pet would have to eat a bunch of bait-killed rodents before they consumed too much poison in that fashion, so many in fact that it is unlikely that a pet would do that.

Nerve agents are much harder for the vets to reverse.
https://stoppestinfo.com/78-top-5-rats-and-mice-baits-feed-the-nasty-rodent-to-death.html
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: rasbo on October 19, 2018, 11:52:25 AM: Quote from: singleshot12 on October 19, 2018, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: rasbo on October 18, 2018, 05:32:54 PM
Toilet paper, works awesome

New toilet paper?
yes,lol
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: singleshot12 on October 19, 2018, 04:16:48 PM: Might help to spread a little extra chunky peanut butter on there
Quote from: rasbo on October 19, 2018, 11:52:25 AM
Quote from: singleshot12 on October 19, 2018, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: rasbo on October 18, 2018, 05:32:54 PM
Toilet paper, works awesome

New toilet paper?
yes,lol
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: rasbo on October 19, 2018, 04:24:00 PM: Set your trap,run a piece long ways over everything just 1 layer,they love it for their nest
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: singleshot12 on October 19, 2018, 04:34:19 PM: Yeah makes sense, but wouldn't work where I have a rat prob, too much wind and rain
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Post by: KB88 on October 19, 2018, 05:30:41 PM: Tom cat plastic rat traps with original crunchy cheetohs. Guaranteed to work.
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: ruttnbuck on October 20, 2018, 10:19:51 PM: Snap trap, hot glue some oats and bird seed too it ..
Title: Re: Best Rat Bait?
Post by: Gobble Doc on November 06, 2018, 09:33:18 PM: Snap trap. Hot glue a piece of hard dry dog food.

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