Thread: Possum Trapping

Thanks for the sound advice husky. I'm not sure if i've seen any of those trees here I just googled it. A lot of my traps are on totora's as they almost always have scratch marks on them, theres another one I like just because it has an awesome truck to set your trap and bait, it comes up from the ground very straight and one side is always completely flat. I just reverted back to the cinnamon icing flour today. Looking forward to seeing some of the results from certain trees which nailed possums every day for a week then went stone cold. If it doesn't work then ill just move the trap but ill find out in the next couple of days. This happens quite a lot, is it the possums getting wiser rather than me wiping them out in that area? A few times ive reluctantly moved a good trap that's went cold to a tree very close and started hitting them again. I heard that possums travel 1km-5km a night but that doesn't really make sense as new ones would just keep coming in being non the wiser to my bait or trapped trees.
Thanks mate

Possums have a "territory " of approx 12 km, and will often do a circuit over 3 or 4 days, thats why it pays to leave your trap at least 3 nights. And they often overlap their terittories, so its not just the resident 1 or 2 possums. They only have to eat once every 3 nights, and if its raining will just hole up until its over. But traps catch in the rain, poison not nearly so much. Best night I had was 19 possums off 20 traps on a miserable NW night when it absolutely pissed down.