I guess I’ve been doing it too long, seems easy enough I don’t know why folks don’t just purchase a “community cage” and pass it around the neighborhood.

what do you use for bait

A 160 over the hole

When the situation calls for it, a small piece of lettuce.

Nobody wants to spend the 100 bucks to buy a proper cage for groundhogs.

Ive been doing this for a while too and I've had cllients that bought their own traps the following year after I've trapped the groundhogs and still end up calling me. They saw exactly how I set the traps. Guess its not as easy as it looks.

Yeah, sorry, I ain’t leaving a groundhog baking for a day and then trying to get that balloon out of a conibear. lol

“Proper cage”, do you have some kind of mystical groundhog in your area?

Double door cage traps. You can do it with single doors too with nosecones

Cantaloupe

I like Nosecones for Groundhogs. Where needed

They like Brocoli too

I have found the right location with some eye appeal and they’ll walk in just to check it out.

Slice of apple worked for my boys.

It's easy till they catch a skunk.

That's just when it gets exciting. They will have something to talk about for months with the other parents at the ball field.

Sounds like a bonus to me. LOL

In the recent past, I spent a good deal of my summer trapping groundhogs with 160s in 100 degree heat. I just carried a pair of setting tongs and/or welding gloves but for the most part, removing them from the trap same day was not too unpleasant.

Catching a skunk is no problem. Approach the cage slowly holding a blanket in front of you. Drape the blanket over the cage and you can safely move the cage.

Must be the humidity here. That and the10,000 flies.

Ripe bananas and banana peels are the best groundhog bait I have ever used. I had a leucistic pet groundhog, name Frosty Francis, for 6 years, who would eat a whole banana, peel and all, in under a minute. He prefererred bananas over all the many types of foods I gave him.

Keith

They LOVE cabbage too.