Thread: Bird Predator Control

Originally Posted by BillyXmas546

I don't want to sound useless

With all due respect Billy there is absolutely no chance of that !!

Your opinion on all matters trapping is greatly appreciated. As is your knowledge and wisdom.....you have a huge amount to share.

Awesome looking setup

Gunna be tasty sausages

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kukuwai, I plan to build a smaller version approx 600x600x1200 for cats and possums, I've filmed them walking around the traps a lot more than going in them so something double-ended covered with small mesh netting that's too large to be noticed as a trap or a danger, maybe with hazing at both entrances.

Make sure you keep us posted

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A local friend is running 120 Possum Masters in a reserve near the Kaimais – checking two weekly so needs lure to stick to the trigger – previously using solid state lure tubes but now converted to a small piece of carpet clipped to the trigger. The carpet is smeared with raspberry jam so insects have difficulty extracting it all from the carpet – so the possum enjoys a last bite of sticky jam.


I have trouble keeping an attractive lure on my Sentinel traps – the solid state aniseed lure tube tied to the trigger plate loses it’s odour fairly quicky and although I apply some possum paste each time I go past – the result is short lived and I don’t catch many possums.
So I decided to try jam on my Sentinel traps – so I decided remove the solid state lure tubes and go back to the original bite blocks – with jam on both sides of the bite block and also on the back of the trigger plate
I checked the first five yesterday and got a big possum – looks like he nearly got away with the bite block that was not installed properly – they are a bloody difficult trap to deal with while mounted and fully set.


But today I tried one with carpet and raspberry jam on a gum tree they have been ripping into – will see what happens


Rats are rare around the Park – but plenty of them around our Street – some big Norways coming up from an avocado orchard or the estuary – but plenty of Victors waiting for them

I spotted a large cat shit in the reserve a few days back – so I hauled a SA trap and a Possum Master trap up there and mounted them together – both on ramps – checked them today and found a large female cat in the SA trap and the PM trap also tripped – all chicken neck baits were gone so must be others involved. She had the same markings and short tail as the others we have been getting in recent months. About five mice and a rat inside her - full of fat so must have been living well.
Relocated the SA trap about 100m away and put fresh cat liver on the ramps – should be tempting if there are others around.

Great catch

The steve allen doing the business for me too @time out. Rabbit backstrap bait



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My inept computer skills wont allow me to do photos so i will try and be visual with my writing skills which are also woeful .

I have 2 high country trap lines. Trap green 3 has been in the same spot for a year and caught zip. It got moved about 5m 3 trips ago, next time it was checked it had caught a stoat. Last time it was checked it was stoatally full of dead stoat. When i mean full it was full of the biggest stoat i have ever caught. I bought it home and measured it, from the guard hairs on the tip of its tail to its nose was 460mm long.

Originally Posted by sore head stoat

My inept computer skills wont allow me to do photos so i will try and be visual with my writing skills which are also woeful .

I have 2 high country trap lines. Trap green 3 has been in the same spot for a year and caught zip. It got moved about 5m 3 trips ago, next time it was checked it had caught a stoat. Last time it was checked it was stoatally full of dead stoat. When i mean full it was full of the biggest stoat i have ever caught. I bought it home and measured it, from the guard hairs on the tip of its tail to its nose was 460mm long.

Thanks for the pictures Mate – I can post them for you – amazing work you are doing in the high country - that is one large stoat!

i'm also not smart enough to do photos. However i've been the leader of a group doing a trap line north of the Maramataha River, South Block, Pureora for the last 10 1/2 years. Started with 20 single set boxes with DOC 200's, eggs for bait. After a year 66 double set boxes with DOC 200's were added & bait changed to Eraze. About a year ago I started putting in mutton or beef fat rendered down and set in ice cube trays as an extra. Catch no's seemed to up a bit after this. To date we have caught 3305 Rats, 160 Weasels, 92 Stoats, 17 Hedgehogs, 8 Ferrets, 21 Mice, 10 Cats (kittens up to 1/2 grown.

Thanks Time Out

Originally Posted by techno retard

i'm also not smart enough to do photos. However i've been the leader of a group doing a trap line north of the Maramataha River, South Block, Pureora for the last 10 1/2 years. Started with 20 single set boxes with DOC 200's, eggs for bait. After a year 66 double set boxes with DOC 200's were added & bait changed to Eraze. About a year ago I started putting in mutton or beef fat rendered down and set in ice cube trays as an extra. Catch no's seemed to up a bit after this. To date we have caught 3305 Rats, 160 Weasels, 92 Stoats, 17 Hedgehogs, 8 Ferrets, 21 Mice, 10 Cats (kittens up to 1/2 grown.

I was listening to Cam Speedy [i think it was] and he also like mutton fat. I never rendered it down but just rubbed raw mutton fat in the boxes, cant say it made any difference to my catch rate. Next time i cook a bit of mutton i will save some fat and try it.

Good work fellas

That is a hell of a stoat @sore head stoat.

Re: The posting of photos....if you guys are using smart phones to take the photos. The easiest thing to do is download the app Tapatalk. You then just access the forum thru the app, it makes posting photos so easy !

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One less in the world tonight. Just looked out the window while we were having dinner and this joker showed up

Got this large weasel yesterday, I'm going to have a go at removing the glands to use as an attractant (more on this later) the string stops the handle from jamming and has a corflute flag so I can see it's gone off as I drive past.