Re: Help from the ermine trappers ?!
[Re: Sharon]
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05/10/24 06:10 AM
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Re: Help from the ermine trappers ?!
[Re: Sharon]
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05/10/24 08:44 AM
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I catch weasels in marten boxes every year, and if you don't use screen to hold the bait in but just wire it in the back of the box, in a lot of places I trap they will clean your marten boxes of bait if they don't get caught. If I'm setting for weasels I use weasel boxes as shown with a #1 longspring or jump in them. Never tried rat traps because I have a ton of old #1s and they work well. I've caught both longtails and shorttails in weasel boxes, and both in marten boxes. I don't recall catching much for shorttails in 120s unless they are vertical boxes, then they will stand on the trigger wires while getting at the bait, otherwise they seem to slip past them always. I would guess you have both, most places do. But shorttails are usual more populated.
Also, everybody says to use fresh bloody bait, but I have had at least as good of, if not better, luck with tainted bait.
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Re: Help from the ermine trappers ?!
[Re: Sharon]
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05/10/24 11:27 AM
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N50, I plan to politely ask one what it identifies as , instead of grabbing hold of it .... after we sit down to a cup of tea.
Bearcat, you give me hope for finding out that I have both types here, and could actually get a long tail in a weasel box. Maybe. Won't hurt to try.
I will try both weasel box, in the woods on my place, and also rat trap set "aloose", up off the ground a bit, inside one of my outbuildings, out of sight from other animals, like birds.
Years ago, on a hike in the Priest Lake Wilderness, Long Canyon, north Idaho, I had a weasel come right up to me as I sat eating lunch. I threw it a bit of hot dog. Soon it was scurrying all around me on the boulder where I was seated. I was able to feed it by hand. I'm sure, in a few more minutes, I could have had it sitting on my lap as I fed it. Totally fearless. I can't remember what type it was. If the one I am after is anything as that one, I should have no problem , if and when it comes back on its circuit.
Sure appreciate all the good advice and photos, all of you.
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Re: Help from the ermine trappers ?!
[Re: Sharon]
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05/10/24 02:26 PM
05/10/24 02:26 PM
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The more I think of it all of my long tails are in regular traps. In boxes I have only caught short tails, no long tails. Good point, thanks......jk
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