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Got a problem with overpopulation. I am using a live trap. Any recommendations on bait?..


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Peanut butter


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Cotch up a female in heat. Make a little, sexy bikini looking harness and tie her in the back of the cage. You'll catch every boy squirrel in the neighborhood.....

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I use peanuts....sometimes I'll wire the trap open and use it as a feeding station to lull them into a false sense of security. Sometime put a shiny thing like foil on top to catch their attention. Its mating season now and you'll get a ton of young males...bikini clad decoy or not.


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I cooked my first squirrel ever for my son the other day that he killed. He loved it, i think all that was left was rib meat.

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I haven't fried any in a while.
Mostly make dumplings or cook with ramens.
I'll put em in the crockpot on low till they're
done and they won't be stringy. I like to make
stuff with em that will stretch out the tiny bit
of meat you get

Caught one a day or so ago and stuck it in the
freezer till i get another to make a stew with

No bait. 110 set in a run. Snap

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I use a 110 baited with a peanut. Cleaned out 60+ with a single trap in my vegetable garden this year. Most cooked Buffalo Wing style and the tails will be headed for the Mepps trade in program.


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I use a live trap with peanut butter on the pan and a few peanuts stuck in the peanut butter

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Originally Posted by chris_c
I use a live trap with peanut butter on the pan and a few peanuts stuck in the peanut butter


Peanut butter, with one of the 10K of excess Girl Scout cookies stuck on it - 30 seconds to 30 minutes, done.

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Originally Posted by dale06
Peanut butter


On the bait paddle of a rat trap nailed to a tree. Rat traps were used similar to that to trap ermine in the great depression, except with a bloody bait.

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I used to use a live trap but went to the a lethal tube trap. In a weekend I have caught 13 tree rats. Those bastards are makin a mess of my bird feeders and suet feeders, So, they are introduced to the tube trap. It is like a rat trap but arm is inside the tube along with the bait. Works well.

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old fashion victor rat trap with peanut butter

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Originally Posted by blanket
old fashion victor rat trap with peanut butter


Also my choice for squirrels in places where the 17HM2 isn't allowed.

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Put them tacked to a tree striking down about three feet off the ground, A trap works when your not around with a rifle

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Peanut butter with bird seed on the trigger of a 110.

Apple slice on one if you want to catch rabbits.

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Peanut butter for trap bait, or a few handfuls of corn where you can shoot them with a pellet gun.


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I just had a large cage trap baited with a fruit-cup-snack-deal for a
problem coon. Squirrel got there first.


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I have been eradicating the grey squirrels in my back yard for about a month now. Just put the 13th one in the trash today. He was dead in the box trap for some reason or another. Saved me from tapping him out with the .22. I have a bird feeder that apparently draws them in from all over the hood. I started out with a Benjamin Marauder pellet gun in .22 cal. Extremely accurate and kills 'em nice enough IF you can get the damned thing to work. I then put 2 box traps to work with corn on the cob as bait. Caught one right off the bat and then nothing. I sat and watched 2 different squirrels go into each box trap and nothing. I ended up shooting one and went to inspect the traps...I forgot to release the door safeties. I now have 2x .75" pieces of plywood glued together to stop the suppressed .22 cal bullets. Haven't got one with the rifle yet because I melted some peanut butter and stirred in some bird seed. It has been slaying them in the box traps.

After sitting outside sipping some whiskey tonight, I realize it has been the mockingbirds f-ing around in the raised garden beds. They just got themselves put on the list. Never liked their asses anyways.


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Got a pine squirrel problem. They're pulling insulation out of my eves, and making nests!

Been using a have-a heart trap, and that works fairly well with peanut butter for bait, but not getting enough of them.

Have tried a Victor rat trap, but it's not sensitive enough. They eat the peanut butter without setting it off.

Dose Victor make a trap in a size between a rat trap and a mouse trap? Something more sensitive?

Any other ideas welcome!

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You can fiddle with the wire and the "pan" notch
to make the regular rat traps more sensitive

I've used em for squirrels, but I found 110's do
a better job and a squirrel can't wiggle it's way
out of a 110. Even if you catch it too far back,
it'll still be in the trap waiting for you and your
dispatch stick.
I'd advise securing whatever trap you use to
keep other critters from taking your trap and
prey off somewhere

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