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Pocket Gopher or Mole? #6910949
06/25/20 10:21 PM
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I catch a ton of these little rascals every year and I’ve always called them Moles. Today I was catching one every half hour or so.
I was curious to know what their real name was, so I googled them and from the pics I seen it looks like this is actually called a pocket gopher.

Anyone know for sure? What do you guys call them?

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Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6910957
06/25/20 10:24 PM
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That's a gopher 'round here. Moles are black.

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Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6910961
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pocket gopher .

Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6910964
06/25/20 10:27 PM
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Feet and tail are the big giveaways Plus moles you have to dig em out of the ground, seldom do you see them above the dirt unless something else dug em up.

Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6910981
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Thanks guys! I trap these in their tunnels. I’ve never seen one alive before.


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Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6910983
06/25/20 10:36 PM
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Not a mole, they have big pink hands like catchers mitts, we have plenty of moles but not the gophers here, good luck taking em out

Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: ] #6910999
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Pocket gopher, a rodent. Notice the rodent incisors, and the gap between them and teeth further back in the mouth, like other rodents (think beaver). The "pocket" that gives pocket gophers their common name, are fur-lined pouches beside the mouth (not part of the mouth) to put bits of food (plants) into to take back to nest area of tunnels. Moles are not rodents, so teeth are much different, as moles don't eat plants.

Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6911009
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
Thanks guys! I trap these in their tunnels. I’ve never seen one alive before.

Google Montana style gopher fishing
you may like it

Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: dkrug] #6911091
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Originally Posted by dkrug
Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
Thanks guys! I trap these in their tunnels. I’ve never seen one alive before.

Google Montana style gopher fishing
you may like it


Lol I checked it out on YouTube. Pretty funny!


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Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6911093
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Depend which municipality you are in.
Bounty is ten bucks in some.

Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Northof50] #6911120
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Originally Posted by Northof50
Depend which municipality you are in.
Bounty is ten bucks in some.


Dang and I thought I was rocking when I was getting .50 for a pair of feet when I was a kid and avaraging 40 dollars a week during the summer break as a kid

Heck even back in the 80s when I was trapping them for some of the big vegetable farms were I was living in exchange for other trapping access as well as the dollar bounty for though I was doing good averaging 40/50 a day in my spare time

At 10 bucks each i would have become a full time gopher trapper



�Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.�
― Robert A. Heinlein
Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6911162
06/26/20 05:16 AM
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Ugly little critter.None around here.


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Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Northof50] #6911375
06/26/20 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Northof50
Depend which municipality you are in.
Bounty is ten bucks in some.

In one township close by the bounty is $8/gopher. Then the local cable comp matches that since the gophers have acquired a taste for the fiber optics cables. And if your really lucky you can get the landowner to match the bounty making it $24/pocket gopher. Understandably it has gotten harder to find any gophers in that township!


Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6911402
06/26/20 10:25 AM
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Did you check it pockets for change?


Help yourself.



Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6911410
06/26/20 10:30 AM
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We used to have a $1 bounty on gophers here but they did away with it.

What's everyone's favorite traps for um? 0's death klutch black holes?

Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6911489
06/26/20 12:19 PM
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How do you catch them? I have a chipmunk problem.

Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6911578
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I used DK's or #0 Victor LS and have had good luck but you do get the occasional smart one.

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Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6911606
06/26/20 02:11 PM
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Put it in your pocket Jurassic,like Lenny.


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: Pocket Gopher or Mole? [Re: Jurassic Park] #6911620
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I use a Black Hole trap.....open up their hole, put trap in and its a done deal !!







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