No more good mornings. (The mole stops here)

Hope everyone enjoyed Easter Sunday!!!

I need to get some mole traps. I've lived here for thirty-plus years and never had a problem with them. I started noticing the mounds over their tunnels three years ago and in the last year the population seems to have exploded, tunnels everywhere!

Steve Albano's Trapline mole trap is my preference. Steve used to post on here.

https://www.traplineproducts.com/

My other choice would be the Victor Out of Sight trap. There's a learning curve to this on though as you have to open the tunnel create a "speed bump" in the bottom of the tunnel and position the pan over the bump so that the mole has to squeeze through pushing up on the pan. Then carefully covering the tunnel to block out light.

Check the ADC archives there should be several archived threads on mole trapping.

Lugnut, I have good success with hoop traps..:::Nash Hoop Traps …..

Victor out of sight here as well.

How did you cook it?

Over easy!

word of caution on the victor out of site traps. The Chinese changed them a year or so ago. They are now aluminum and have very weak springs. They succeeded in taking the very best mole trap and making it a piece of junk. I have heard they are again redesigning the trap but till they do, don't waste your money on them.

The Albano traps are about the only ones worth buying right now from those I have seen.

The larger step on to set traps are ok, but I need dozens of them and can't pay 25-30 bucks apiece for them.

You want the older cast steel OOS. And they can be tuned just like footholds with some pan bending or dog filing. You might want to paint them a bright color like orange or pink. Lawnmowers and OSS make for loud noises and something breaking.

Once you got traps you need to learn moles. It's location, location, location. Most of the meandering surface runs are feeding tunnels and rarely revisited until the worms are replenished. You want the travel runs between feeding and denning, look for the straight runs. Often these will be dictated by structure. Places to look are along concrete driveway slabs, foundations, fences, etc. Things that force them into a predictable route that is regularly used.