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Re: Trapping Winter River Rats
[Re: WIKA]
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03/06/23 12:02 PM
03/06/23 12:02 PM
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Joined: May 2009
Posts: 1,196 Maryland's Eastern Shore
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Research bottom edge sets. And look for bank holes.
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Re: Trapping Winter River Rats
[Re: Dean Chapel]
#7814991
03/07/23 01:59 PM
03/07/23 01:59 PM
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Joined: Feb 2023
Posts: 45 NW Wisconsin
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On moving water without fluctuations in water depth, rats will leave sign on shore in form of feedbeds and toilets. Set those and you'll catch rats if there are any to catch. Hard to find dens on most streams. Also possibility that the rats diseased out over the winter. In the Fall sign seems easy to find and I have best success with a #1LS or 1.5 coil on feedbeds or toilets. Problem now is most of the banks are ice/snow covered and I struggle to find any sign whatsoever. Many of the creeks that are 10 ft wide only have a ice free zone of maybe 3-4 feet in the middle where the current is strong enough to keep ice off.
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Re: Trapping Winter River Rats
[Re: WIKA]
#7815336
03/07/23 09:54 PM
03/07/23 09:54 PM
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Joined: Sep 2020
Posts: 1,919 Pennsylvania
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Floats are the way to go in rivers or areas of fluctuating open water. In waters deep enough for drowning foothold traps can be used. In shallow waters near shores the floats can be set up with 110's, two per float near the centers. Most of my XL size rats come from the rivers. Where tribs enter the rivers are magnets for muskrats (& mink)
TILL THAT DAY.....
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Re: Trapping Winter River Rats
[Re: Nunyacreek]
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03/10/23 10:05 PM
03/10/23 10:05 PM
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Joined: Feb 2023
Posts: 45 NW Wisconsin
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I am a total believer in Hagz brackets and footholds on fiberglass rods. I trap near ice shelves on the bank and they seem to work everywhere. I use a dab of lure on a piece of carrot. I have no idea where rats are in runs or anywhere else because it’s under the ice but the footholds work. The only problem is the carrots freeze if it gets too cold at night. When the carrots stop getting eaten I move on. I use Hagz brackets also and have had good luck. Best luck is on fake slides and feed beds. Just can’t seem to locate them now. Went out this morning after 5 inches of fresh now setting some small creeks. Looking for beaver or otter, gave up on the rats. Set 4 new rivers, very carefully as there’s still plenty of ice and didn’t know what the bottoms were like in these new locations. Fresh otter sign since overnight.
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Re: Trapping Winter River Rats
[Re: SNIPERBBB]
#7830479
03/26/23 11:23 PM
03/26/23 11:23 PM
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Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 17,396 Central Ohio
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Baited bodygrips only seem to work under ice. . What river are you trapping that's frozen ? That works in a pond. Most rivers will change too much to use that system
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Re: Trapping Winter River Rats
[Re: LT GREY]
#7830605
03/27/23 07:53 AM
03/27/23 07:53 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 18,253 Rodney,Ohio
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Baited bodygrips only seem to work under ice. . What river are you trapping that's frozen ? That works in a pond. Most rivers will change too much to use that system We do get some ice here along some the of the ohio river tributaries. Its rare that i get to do these sets on rivers under ice as usually they're flooded and frozen and its a death trap trying to get on the ice in high water period.
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