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    Flesh bait

    Just in and little rain came in so called it a night so far.
    Had my youngest shooting tonight and because it's been rough weather down here or they knew a little bit of rain was coming we were able to pick up a new supply of bait. Also just good spending time with him and passing on a little knowledge.
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    Good work fellas Swamp comp results are on the website btw, good luck
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    Got round the estuary lines today , bit late as had been away ( Stewart Island)but way more stoats than any other check bit of a worry
    5 stoats, 3 rats,1 weasel, 1 hedgehog
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    1 cat dispatched was a pretty fair trade for my first couple of kiwi I seen in the wild down on the island .��
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    I'm loving that second photo.

    We managed to sniper one out the hut window down on Stewart Island too.

    Man it was tricky tho, a very cagey cat... had to stake him out and it took a few goes.

    A big ginger tom so happy to see him out of the gene pool.


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    Made it round the trap line today 4 hedgehogs, 4 rats one weasel and one dried up stoat which was caught in a trap with duck feathers





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    Its hard to find a good Cherry tree in the bush - mostly I slash them - but this one might be useful to mount a new trap
    Carol from Grantly Imports Ltd DeadRat.co.nz - sent me a Flipping Timmy to try out for her - then she got a possum on her own deck at her home - so she is an experienced trapper!
    So I mounted the Timmy on a Cherry tree this morning - best place I could find and beside a Timms that has produced well in the past
    I like the look of the new Timmy - a very similar trap presentation to a Possum Master and a Sentinel - very simple to bait with an apple, close it up and load it - hope the possums like the concept
    A bit warm up in the bush this morning - too hot for a black dog - but she just sits, watches and waits - nothing to get excited about today - rats all gone!

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    Interesting looking trap that @time out Good to see that flour blaze too as that will definitely help

    I noticed a few broken branches on a couple of my two year old sugar gums two days ago and suspected possums.

    Set two leg hold traps on a couple of pines close by.....two possums in the last two nights so hopefully that's my trees safe for a little longer

    For some reason they weren't putting their heads in the sentinal but the switch to leghold sorted it



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    Righto fellas i have to post this one as its relevant to what some of you have been talking about lately @sore head stoat .

    So I left that weasel from a few days ago (minus his tail) sitting on top of the trap.

    I was driving past today and stopped out of interest to see if it was still there.

    It was gone but was replaced with a tailed one in the trap.



    So it is now the tailless one on top of the trap and i am left with no doubt that the smell of a predator is a great lure for another.



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    Well this is interesting.

    I checked my high country traps the other day 5 days after last checking, short turn around, its usually 10 to 14 days.. I was convinced that i was going to murder the local mustelid population after putting pee on a few traps.. I caught 1 and a half rats.. [the other half was eaten by something] and NO mustelids .. I was thinking oh how am i going to put this on the forum lol. I have seen enough to know that the smell thing has merit and is worthy of doing but not the magic bullet i had thought ? .. Oh and to add insult to injury , as i was walking back to my vehicle a stoat ran out in front of me not 20m away from a trap Hopefully he will be in it when i next check !!

    I would be interested to see how you set up the Victor in your box for weasels, do you use the Landcare shroud ? I have caught the odd weasel in a Victor rat trap but generally not clean kills like a 150. Much cheaper option though.

    Kukuwai, next time you get a freshie try rubbing his butt and squeezing it [through the plastic bag] so it pees on a few traps and see what you think then.
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    7 rats, 2 Hogs, 1 weasel,1Stoat,1 Ferret tor the round yesterday fresh rabbit still doing the biz although I need to up the check frequency as all were caught earlier in the piece.Name:  ED77003B-AC24-4F8B-8E59-2827F808332B.jpeg
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    On another note drove down to Wanaka last week and was amazed by the Ferret numbers on the roads obviously attributed to the rabbits
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    Good work Sparrow

    I read somewhere the other day that one species of rat prefers protein and the other carbohydrate.. found it , it was the Farmlands magazine but it doesnt say which prefers which. I am not catching many rats in my local traps at present but what i have noticed in my last few captures is the rats i am catching are all on eggs as a bait in DOC 150s. I have a peanut butter Victor traps within 20m but zilch in those... coincidence or ? Maybe they have preferences at certain times of the year ? Your thoughts and comments please...
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    My ‘around the house’ cage traps are baited with peanut butter smeared sultanas, normally works good and get one every third night or so but caught nothing for six+ months and likewise the mouse traps, one last week but that was the first for over six months.
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    Well done the Sparrow team - just love the look on the young fella’s face!
    I wish I could find something with proper fur on its back - mostly just getting rats with prickles
    Checked about 60 traps on Saturday - just one stinky possum - lots of rat traps tripped but no victims - maybe protein feeders getting the bodies - I understand that Norways are cannibals - but I have seen plenty of Shippies that also eat bodies
    I am using Eraze rabbit jerky in my Doc boxes - bloody hogs keep coming back for a last feed - they wont stay away once the hog smell is there
    I did another line this morning - about 20 traps and got 4 rats so they are still around - one bastard had been cleaning out the blue stuff I had been putting around a Timms and a double rat trap set - but the blue death got him last night
    I found out that I set the Flipping Timmy wrong - I couldn’t trip it - the red sleeve is an adjuster for the bait rod - slim end hard set - thick end softer set - see picture in last post - found their web site which is good - Carol has access to their gear - https://www.envirotools.co.nz/flipping-timmy/
    Got the first kill for two months in a street trap a few days back - a mouse - PFBOP did a report for me - for last 14 months - 221 kills - 126 rats, 70 mice, 21 hedgehogs, 3 ferret and a stoat - the dawn chorus is amazing
    I got a fancy hunters chair from the H&F Swamp Comp - what did you guys get?

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    Well done time out.

    Further to my above post, i went for a bike ride this evening to check a few traps. I caught another rat and again it was in a 150 with an egg bait and not 10m away was a completely untouched peanut butter baited Victor. Coincidence ???
    time out , I wonder if your blue goo is a protein based lure or carbohydrate ?
    I have got access to 14 day old dead chickens and tonight i have baited up a couple traps with them.

    For the swamp comp i won a UFO cooker. Thank you Hunting and Fishing, its appreciated.
    Oh and this afternoon while checking traps i caught a stoat and it was a tad manky but instead of a tail it just had a stump .. dont know if it had been eaten or what ? That aint much use for the swamp comp LOL
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    Interesting about the rats, there are no carbs in my traps at all at the moment (egg and rabbit) and last round it was 6 ships to 1 Norway, so not a good test model. I occasionally get a half eaten ship rat but wouldn’t know what’s having a chew on it.

    Thanks @time out that’s my youngest(5) in the pic who now does the 4km without a grumble, was our last trap of the day and he was happy it had caught “something big”.

    Swamp comp was good I received an A24 with a Bluetooth app , haven’t had the best time with the A24s at work but will start this one fresh and manage it better somewhere useful, Happy days
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