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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: kyron4]
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12/08/21 07:55 AM
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Turtledale
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Unless your trapping them completely out for someone I'd take the cream off the top and move on. Leave a few for breeders and move on.
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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: kyron4]
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12/08/21 08:07 AM
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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: kyron4]
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12/09/21 08:03 AM
12/09/21 08:03 AM
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Don’t worry about leaving seed, those are simply “feel good” intentions. The rats will tell you when it’s time to move a on. I always try to catch one more.
Pull the traps on the check before the catch plummets. Lol.
Believe it or not your regulated trapping activity has little to no influence on muskrat populations.
Last edited by nimzy; 12/09/21 08:11 AM.
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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: nimzy]
#7426603
12/09/21 05:50 PM
12/09/21 05:50 PM
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blackhammer
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Don’t worry about leaving seed, those are simply “feel good” intentions. The rats will tell you when it’s time to move a on. I always try to catch one more.
Pull the traps on the check before the catch plummets. Lol.
Believe it or not your regulated trapping activity has little to no influence on muskrat populations. . X2. could not have put it any better. Leaving seed is just BS when it applies to rat trapping and most other fur bearers as well. In certain situations the rats just keep coming especially in creeks and small rivers. And guess what unless of severe drought or flooding next season there will be plenty of muskrats .
Last edited by blackhammer; 12/09/21 05:50 PM.
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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: bctomcat]
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12/11/21 10:30 PM
12/11/21 10:30 PM
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Move trap to new location after third check. I agree with this100%. After the 3rd check you are better off moving your sets, you’ll catch more rats, after 3 checks you should have those spots pretty well cleaned up.
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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: nimzy]
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12/13/21 01:07 PM
12/13/21 01:07 PM
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bctomcat
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If a swamp is only good for 3 checks I’d probably skip it. I never said three checks on a pond then move. Make three checks on a set then move to a new location within the pond, until the pond is essentually trapped out then move to new pond.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: bodycount]
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12/13/21 02:26 PM
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You are pond trapping. Just something I have observed creek trapping rats is that a certain percentage are traveling rats just passing through. These sets will produce season long. A weather change really gets them moving. Plus larger rats are caught as the season moves along. Correct, and good point re stream trapping rats.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: kyron4]
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12/13/21 05:13 PM
12/13/21 05:13 PM
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The Beav
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When I set a small body of water I set EVERY LOCATION so I'm not moving sets around In that body of water. I check twice then I leave them un checked for 2 days then check on the third day. If I have any rats I re set those sets that have made catches and pull the other sets. My goal Is to catch every rat that lives In that body of water.
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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: nimzy]
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12/13/21 11:39 PM
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Northernbeaver
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If a swamp is only good for 3 checks I’d probably skip it. Not everyone has the rat marsh of rat marshes out their back door.
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Re: When to move on ? (muskrats)
[Re: kyron4]
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12/14/21 01:31 AM
12/14/21 01:31 AM
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The Beav
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When we trapped rats In ND we checked the same traps for weeks and came up with 2500 rats. We set for days before even checking traps.
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