So I have a nutria or two in my pond here in North Central Arkansas. New critter for these parts!!! I set a #220 in the only run I can find with no luck. Any advice? No trails can’t find a den and is eating all the shore line grass like it’s going out of style!!

…. Shoot em

Should be a feed pile or two to set footholds on where they are working the grass.

Maybe!!!
I’ll try that
I didn’t know if a bait set or pocket set would work or not

They are plant eaters but I caught a curious one in a coon bucket baited with fresh tuna scraps. I put six buckets in a 30’ circle on a salt marsh island. Next mourning I had five coons and the darn nutria. Go figure. Would have been neat to go six for six.

I have good luck using sweet potatoes for bait. They really go for them here.

Do you peel the potato first? How large are your pieces?

For me an apple on a stick always worked dynamite. Yellow apples being preferred.

Find a spot where they are grazing and grub hoe out a bit of dirt or mud put in a foothold on a drowner and cover up the trap with some grass then just beyond the apple on a stick or just shoved into the backing but visible from the water. The artificial feed bed never fails to attract them.

Pocket set with some cherry cough syrup or cherry smelling lure/essence. Fresh digging probably be enough to attract them. #2 sized trap, they got a pretty good sized back foot.

One other thing, nutria are tough, no need to rig a drowner for them. My favorite foothold was a #2 1/2 Blake and Lamb longspring.

I have had nutria pull support sticks for a 220 which were cut from a wild cherry tree. The trap fell over unsprung and the nutria stripped the bark off of the sticks
There was a huge heavily leaning wild cherry tree on that same ditch were the nutria climbed out on a huge limb and peeled off all of the bark they could reach, all the way from the trunk of the tree and 10 feet out. It was an amazing sight.
I think they like wild cherry bark, which is strange since if a cow eats it they get sick as a horse.

No, I just cut them in halves, quarters or more depending on the size. I make sure the exposed orange side is facing the water where the nutria can see it. I've caught a lot of them in live traps using sweet potatoes as well.