Preferred bait?
Thanks

PB, every time, for me.

A nut (almond, peanut, etc.) glued or wired to the pan, smeared with a little PB. I've had too many times when the mouse picks the PB clean without setting off the trap.

Usually use PB, but cheese does work too.

pattern movement and use rat sized glue traps screwed down..

Good idea . It's very irritating when they steal the PB and not get snapped. I keep fiddling with the pan settings to make them as sensitive as possible.

PB lasts longer, really long in fact. Cheese dries up and loses effectiveness. I always have a few traps set in case they somehow make it past the cats. That doesn't happen very often though.

I've trapped mice and voles literally by the thousands for scientific collections. PB every time.

Jack

Peanut butter

Choosy mice choose jiff

PB most of the time, but chocolate syrup in the cavity of the yellow plastic pan is good also. Hardens up in a few hours and stays good for a long time.

Peanut butter most of the time when I get a pesky one I will switch it up to chocolate. When I have to use a glue trap I use a Rat sized one with a chocolate wafer stuck to the middle of it. Works great.

PB work all the time.

PB - use sparringly. Less is better. Make them work the trap to get it.


Cheese is good for catching cartoon mice.

Drill a 3/8" hole in the wood base directly below the trigger.
Smear if full of PB.
Mice tend to worry the trigger sideways more when attempting to get under it for the goodies.

bacon or balogna

X2. No other way. We dehydrate plums. I find a piece of that or something similar is helpful to jam under the trigger and schmear with PB

Canadian sugar cookies that I found in the ditch work better than peanut butter for mice.

peanut butter with bird seed mixed in

Peanut butter....

This

Bacon grease

I like cream cheese because it doesn’t run off as easily as peanut butter, but PB has a better scent. I always wrap some dental floss or pull out a strand of hair and wrap around the bait so their teeth get stuck and it trips the trigger

Pb here too

Fig Newton

Name an animal that doesn't like PB !

Tootsie roll. Put it into your pocket a minute to soften. Cut it into 1/3s. Mold it onto the pan. Better than PB or anything else for me.

i always thought that and/or a piece of bit-0-honey would work on trigger wires of 110 conibear for big ol barn rats. Preferably on bell triggers of BMI 110.

Peanut butter then cheese later.

White flour, easy and works.

I really don't think a mouse cares.

Peanut butter with a few pumpkin seeds mashed into it.

Dozens upon dozens caught out of my deer blind over the years on peanut butter.

Glue a squash or pumpkin seed with the end sniped off. cach a lot of mice with one seed and no rebaiting.

Chocolate chips melted then smeared on the trigger then let it harden and it catches more mice then peanut butter all day. In some special scenarios when I’m trapping in barns wheee there eating feed and they don’t want chocolate I take some of the feed and mix it with peanut butter and the mice love it

I enjoy trapping mice in my shop and barn. Bonus when one makes it into the house.

I like sharp cheddar. I let it sit for a while so it hardens a bit and really stays on the trigger. I want them to tug on the trigger. Sometimes I'll sweeten it up with a dab of peanut butter.

Bacon tied to the pan

I open up the curled end of the bait holder a little then slide a half piece of nut, preferably cashew or peanut, in.
Rarely they will get the nut out but I look at it as they will be back after one free meal.

I find a peanut wired to a Victor mouse trap is too heavy. I use an in the shell peanut on a Victor rat trap for chipmunks and often catch mice with that setup.

Trapper7, I am using just the meat of the peanut, not the shell. I have had to split almonds also, if they are too big.

I add PB until the trap won't stay set, then take just enough off to get the trap to stay set when I place it.

Many of the mice I catch are little, tan buggers. Not the bigger grey ones.

Are your traps Victors? I tried using just a peanut without the shell and can't keep the trap set as it adds too much weight wired to the pan. That's why I was just using PB.

Yep, victor yellow pans.

Now you are trying to make me hungry. Forget about the mice.

I have a rat trap set inside a weasel box with a whole peanut in the shell set for chipmunks. I had a vole in it this morning. The yellow pan has a sensitive setting on it and will take anything that touches the pan.

Cashews work amazing well. Smash them into the pan.

I would try to use cashews, but I am sure that I would eat all my bait before I got the traps set. Thats what happened when I tried to use marshmallows for coon.