We had the pleasure of trying out some new baits and lures from ACP Rednecks Pride a few days ago. We were against the wall with a grey squirrel trapping job and forced to positive set the home 65 feet away from the primary entrance due to access limitations and reach. We tried several of our usual baits and lures to attempt to lure the family of squirrels away from their normal entry point that was now closed by exclusion materials to the new positive set trap. We ordered in some ACP Rednecks Pride No Moe's bait and Yep Lure to try on this timid squirrel. The trap was set at 7 pm in the evening and at 7 am the next morning we received a call from a very happy customer saying the squirrel was in the trap. This was a pregnant female that was nesting and preparing to have her litter. I am very happy with the performance of ACP Rednecks Pride Baits and Lures. Thanks for a great bait.......

Maybe I missed something.... but if you're 65 feet from the entry, how is it a posi-set? I can see an open "bait and lure" set which would certainly be a GREAT test for lures, but I guess I'm not following the explanation of "posi-set" 65 feet from the access point.

Posi-set:



Open sets:

Ron,

How are you mounting the support board? Tap-cons, brackets, hidden straps, other?

This looks like another great subject for an article in WCT. You can have Clayt write it and use your pics.

Ron. The original entrance was 42 feet off the ground. Since it is impossible to fly our 40 foot ladder alone we drilled a new hole in the fascia board on the front of the house. It was 65 feet from the original entry to the hole we drilled and set on. Yes it was a positive set however in a new location that the squirrels had never seen. I am certain the lure and bait drew the squirrel to the new location to investigate the new entry hole. This lead to a capture in under 10 hours. Make sense?

Yes! Now I get it. And it is possible the lure odor circulated around to the other side inside the soffit cavity. On many homes the squirrels can run completely around the structure once inside the soffit cavity.

A couple Tap-cons in the mortar and the "ugly" wooden brackets on the ends. It was all I had on the truck that day! I have tons of good pics showing multiple squirrel catches at gang sets near the entries. If you would like, I'll get something together for WCT mag.

I am definitely going to say it was the lure and bait! yep absolutely lol

Ok let me understand this also. If you were able to repair the original point of entry providing exclusion repairs how is it that you didnt posi- trap or exclude from the original entry point? I guess there was a reason not explained in the description.

That being said and you did successfully repair the original entry point, then you potentially trapped any remaining animals inside the structure until they find a new way out or chew a way out.Thats a given.

Therefore by drilling another escape hole within the fringe of the facia regardless of the distance, you provided air flow and light penetration to the squirrel inside the perimeter fringe.Which is a familiar travel way for them as it is for bats.

A good basic way of showing the way out for any animal trapped and forced to take the opportunity it is given.

Lure and bait at this point may have helped but certainly not needed to get the same result. Not to take away any praise for Jonesie's products. It just isnt a good testament of any product in such a situation if you know your game about exclusion and an animals photo sensitive/air flow responses in such a situation. I am sure Jonesie knows this situation as well as any old timer.

Whether you provide a similiar situation under a dark sealed deck area for skunk work or coons living under the deck. They will take any opportunity they are given if their primary has been taken away. By providing air flow and light penetration its an opportunity most animals just go for it naturally.

Just like you being in a cave and following a distance point of light that may promise you a way out if you are trapped.

We have used this type of situation when a consumer takes it upon themselves to do home repairs and seal the animals in and then we are called to resolve the problem a few days to a week later. After chewing, scratching and digging noises are heard from the first night on thru our service call.

Under a deck area for example we will staple cardboard all around the perimeter of the deck to block out any light or any other significant air flow. Then you trap or exclude the draft/light entry point that you created.Works all the time.

Jones is a witch.

cant be,

I hate to say it but Jonesie is right again. And Phil, perhaps you need a few courses on the really curvaseous difference between a witch and a warlock ( Which Jonesie obviously is )

not a warlock either, I just make magic happen LOL

I guess you didn't get the memo. Today, one can be any gender, or no gender at all, like an amoeba. So, any gender can be a witch. The world made simpler by progress. What this means Paul, is when you get another urge to try on a pair of panties, it is OK to go into the dressing room of your choice.

Phil, life was a lot easier before "Which is the Witch?"

Any good formulator has developed skills in conjuring potions from various plants and secret ingredients so in a sense Jonesie may in fact be considered a warlock/alchemist conjuring spells for unsuspecting animals and such.

I know on a few occasions I have conjured some stuff that made my head spine and made me walk aimlessly for a few min's when I took a whiff, LOL don't know about anything else LOL You know now that I think about it I put some cherry chew in a trap and killed the squirrel so I tried it a few more times and them squirrels really go into freak out mode on that stuff or is it snuff LOL

I have seen Jonesie's wife and I think he probably confused his head spinning and his aimless walk with the first time they met!

maybe LOL

The word I should have used is "wizard." (No Paul, thats not when you go peepee.) "Wizard Ron/Bob" sounds better than "Chemist Ron/Bob" for conjurors of trapping lures.

Phil's latest theme song: "I'm off to see the wizard, The wonderful wizard named Bob"