Been trying to conibear some squirrels. Got a trap set in tree on heavy limb baited with peanut butter in between the jaws that rest on the wood attached to limb. They are robbing the butter from under the trigger wires and in between the jaws. Not sure how but they are getting it done. I watched one yesterday at work but couldn't see his detailed style but when he left I went out and looked it was all done again.

I added some wire to the wire triggers and will see where that gets me.

File the dog down making it a hair trigger.

Yes I will do that. It fires fast now but will tweak it.

Inverted Dixie cup full of PB on trigger wires

Stick a whole shell peanut through the trigger wires...

Put a piece of stiff screen over the trigger wires.

Plastic tubing over the two trigger wires filled peanut butter. A 1 1/2 with the V cut in the pan, peanut butter an the bottom of the pan pushed up into the V.

That and smear some peanut butter on a small piece of wood attached to the trigger wires.

took 63 out of my back yard the last time I thinned them out, 110s and cages baited with PeanutButter on a bagel slice

Bounty paper towels, that are stuck on the wires or the pan on a box trap, with peanut butter smashed through them, work great. The squirrels jerk hard on them and trigger the traps. The impregnated peanut butter is impossible to steal or thoroughly lick off.

Keith

I’m out catching ground squirrels right now hoping for 100 today we will see. They are starting to get fewer in numbers in this park. Have a school to set up tomorrow just a few there.



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I use a large marshmallow on the 110 trigger wire and smear peanut butter on it. I attach the trap to my fence with a BG Coni-Mount....Gets 'em every time

We're not allowed to target squirrels or rabbits in IL because they're exclusively considered game animals.

It seems silly to me, as there's no shortage of them. Was there a problem in the past of trappers taking too many squirrels and rabbits? I can't imagine how many squirrels I'd have to catch to put a dent in their numbers.

Turn the trap 180 deg so the trigger is on the bottom, put PB on the base of the wires.

use a weasel box ,it works great on red squirrels

Wow! Some great advise!!! I didn't one today when I got home but buttah is still in tact. I will use all the great advise you offered. Thank You!!

If I had loads of red squirrels, like they do in some places up North, I would do a long snared pole set, between trees.



They can be super effective and there's something darkly amusing about what looks like a mass gallows for squirrels. A long time ago, I put 6, 110 conibears in a row on a pipe in a friend's barn, who was having a Norway rat infestation. I caught 4 in a row twice, but never could catch the 6 in a row I wanted. I oddly caught one between 2 traps and 3 traps, that weren't set off, once. They used the pipe to come down from a loft they were living in to raid the chicken feed. I caught them on a long horizontal stretch. I wired the traps loosely on, so they fell down and dangled well below, once a catch was made.

Keith

are these red squirrel, ? keep us posted,

KeithC, I could that set up being very effective, thanks.

I will keep you posted Trapper Dahlgren.