Best Sets for Badgers ?

I've only caught one. I set on an existing dig, just used it like a dirt hole.

Make a good flashy coyote set and If there are badgers around they will be In It.
The trouble with setting badger digs Is that In most cases the badger Is long gone. But they make great coyote and fox sets.

Yeah Beav, I was wanting to catch a yote...it was a place that had several little digs, I figured there was a colony of mice there.

That is a good bait

I bought a little rat live trap awhile back, been (or was, anyway) catching quite a few mice. Back to the badger set, I think dirt hole would be the way to go wherever you have a lot of badger sign.

This time of the year setting on the mounds works the best and you might snag a yote for the effort. The mounds are the first to thaw they come with loose dirt so blending is a dream. With the loose dirt it’s a good time to use them long springs.

Believe it or not set snares on every trail leading to or from prairie dog towns for coyotes 8' - 10' snares staked down in the sagebrush will catch a bunch of them I swear they jump up into the snare loop to get caught ha ha

Woven wire fence crawl unders in or near a prairie dog towns set every hole with a snare tie it off high on the fence these are my favorite sets that worked the best for badgers .
I hope these work as well for you as they have for me !
Allan

Trap them just like a coyote at the mounds. I normally find the freshest mound, and make a coyote set at the edge of the sifted dirt with a rock with coyote gland smeared on it. It may sit a while, but you should catch em. Ive done this quite a few times, and it works for me.

If it’s really fresh dig out, set a snare on the entrance to the den.

I had to stop using mice meat for bait because I couldn't keep them out of coyote sets. You can look for frost early in the morning the active holes will have frost outside them from their breath freezing outside the hole. Skunk also seems to drag them in.

I catch them in any kind of coyote or cat set, but when I am targeting badgers I use a dirt hole with a stinky bait and a skunky lure.

Wish we had more of them here

They really like the coyote gland lure on a flat set or stinky bait here. Not a fan of catching them because they are a lot of work to skin and put up. Plus they're stinky and super greasy.