What are the tricks to trapping squirrels? Cage trapping them.

Cages up off the Ground
I put the bait pb or Walnut paste hanging in the back behind the pan.

Are they easy to catch. I need to relocate a few.

Lots of Youtube videos on how to do it. Lots of people use 110 conibears. Going to get a few myself as they are causing havoc in my small veggie garden. Digging up seeds and plant starts.

110s are the best but I’ve caught them in cages, I make a trail of a tiny bit of peanut butter going to the pan of the trap where I put a small glob on top of the trip pan and then I take a corncob or a stick with peanut butter all over it in the back

Yep, I think I will use 110 conibear and a box.

A 110 body grip with a whole peanut threaded onto the trigger will get every one, will also get blue jays, cardinals and anything else that likes peanuts, box might help keep the bird count down,,,A pellet gun works good off the bird feeder and is very selective, lol

I made a feed pile and after a few days I emptied the pile and left a baited trap .
On and off till I got all of them.

I believe those nervous Lil Red squirrels are the hardest to get.
Black and Grey are next.

Fox squirrel is the easiest.

JMO

I truly think the sunflower seeds are addictive to them.

Agreed on the reds, those little so and so's are insane. I have one I tried catching in a weasel box, they won't go in it. So conibears on a few tree trunks should do it.

These are those sneaky reds. I hate them.

I read, but didn't try it.
That if you find a dead one ( road kill , possibly) .
Rub the rear section all over the trap entrance.
Their territorial and curiosity instincts will kick in.

I do know that after my first one in the trap.
Seems like the rest were alot easier to get inside.

Possibly any of the squirrel varieties would create that affect.

Maybe as a last resort try it if you can find one.

brass snare wire on a running pole parallel to the ground between 2 trees-smear peanut butter and nuts in the center. Pole should be about 3 feet off the ground-give about a foot of wire-they'll be hanging dead by their heads

I take a Bounty Paper Towel, rub peanut butter all through it and put it through the treadle, so that it's hard to get out. The squiggles will frenetically jerk on the paper towel, to try to get it out, setting off the trap. This works with even the largest sized, hard to set off, box traps, with high treadle pan tension.

Keith

Try putting a couple peanuts in the shell outside the box and one on the rim of the hole. Use a Victor rat trap with a peanut in the shell wired to the yellow pan. Works for me on the little pests.

Best bait around here for red squirrels is apple slices, also worked when I had to catch some in a Colorado cabin.

I got one set with marshmallow on trip wire coated with peanut buttah. I attached coni bear to a wood with two nails for the coni to rest and stand up right and have it leaning in the tree on a branch going up.

We will see if I can get a few of them. Way too many of those tree rats.

Well, a red tripped the trap eat the peanut buttah. I know it was a squirrel because all the fresh tracks under the tree. I suppose I wised him up now.

I'd like to get some black squirrels and relocate them here in the village.

Apparently whole corn scattered in the bottom of a coon trap. lol