Anyone try using PVC pipe and conibears for mink would like some ideas and or experience on it

If you mean similar to a box set then I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. Would need to have a pretty large diameter PVC pipe in order to fit the conibear inside, or you would have to oddly position it in front of the circular opening. But I suppose entering a black circular piece of PVC pipe would maybe seem more natural for a mink then entering a square wooden box. That said, if there are mink wherever you would set one of these there are likely much more effective and simpler ways to catch them then experimenting with this. The only time I ever use boxes is usually around February when every field, ditch and slough is full of snow and are constantly drifted in and this is the only way to make a set to catch the random mink that doesn't travel through the area enough to make a trail that will last from day to day.

No I haven't tried PVC, but 4" black corrugated plastic drain pipe cut in 3' lengths and a thin slot cut in it about 1 foot from end works well with mink snares. Put the long end through a brush pile at water edge or just put it in the elated and lay the other end with the slot on the bank. Stake a snare near the slot and insert snare and lock. Keeping the snare a foot back from opening keeps the coons from reaching in and getting snagged. We caught a few with this set up, pretty weather proof and good blind set. Read about this in an old trapper and predator caller and we triednitnout for several seasons, works well in good locations.
Jim

Well If you have some of those single spring Round body grips they would fit right In side. Cut one slot In the pipe and place the RBG.

like this?

I've never used PVC pipe for mink but I have used 3 ft culvert boxes in small feeder streams and they have worked great. They will take ]
any rat or mink travelling the stream as it seems they cannot pass up exploring the tunnel. They also make good small stream snowmobile bridge abutments while at the same time targeting mink and rats. Thus I do not see PVC pipe being any different.

Great Idea Tomcat for the bike bridges.

Along a frozen creek. Never produced squat but it sure looked like it would. lol

I've tried route tubes, planters, tile pipe all with luck .
But preseason work helps alot with them.
Natural one's work better in my opinion.

I was thinking 6" diameter schedule 40 and fitting a Duke 155 inside of it probably more work making the pipes and putting them to use than it'd be worth just an idea.i was going for something similar to minklessinpa but the white pipe planted in the bank of a ditch or something similar with maby an inch of water in the bottom of the pipe

I'm not sure if you have them in your area but around here we have culverts under the roads where a pool 4-12' wide will appear below it. These pools hold minnows and creek chubs, crawfish and frogs, (sometimes muskrats) all the thinks mink love to eat. At the end of these pools is a little creek/stream whatever you want to call it where the water is leaving that pool. If you can use a trowel or your boot and dig that deep enough to mostly submerge that tube you'll catch mink in them. A colony trap if legal works great there too, but they need to be completely submerged IMO so whatever you catch isn't fighting each other or the trap.

That will work. But a pocket set or a blind set In that water coarse leaving that pool would work even better.
And In some cases the mink won't travel through that culvert and he will cross the road and will go by that pool before It enters the water.

I haven't tried them but a friend has. He uses them on land on sand bars or wide brushy tribs. He told me to secure them with stakes on sides of course, but also to run a layer of stream dirt through the inside.