Well holy God, say's miley!

Eddie B

Nice surprise in the trap today lads!



Only my second one of these in 20 years of trapping!





And the last one i caught was either 19 or 20 years ago!



Might be common as muck in some parts of the country but seldom seen with this colour around these parts!
caught this lad on the same stream as the one i caught years ago!

mattser

What is it, a Stoat ?

eireshot

it's a silver mink.

Eddie B

No gray mink! Just a colour variation from the usual black! I've seen a brown one and two gray's down through the years!

steyrman2

stinky minky

mattser

So that's the little critter responsible for my free range supply drying up. I hope you gave him as much grief as he gives the fowl.

marlin vs

Nice catch

PippaSpaniel

Nice one Eddie, are you catching many lately i haven't been trapping since the hunting season opened!!Must go at it again when the river subsides a bit.

Eddie B

Slow enough this year! Have 8 or 9 got so far, but one of the lads in the club starts in september with between 10 and 20 traps on the go, so i only have a couple of spot's to myself! He gets between 30 and 40 mink a year!

PippaSpaniel

Eddie B wrote: »

Slow enough this year! Have 8 or 9 got so far, but one of the lads in the club starts in september with between 10 and 20 traps on the go, so i only have a couple of spot's to myself! He gets between 30 and 40 mink a year!

I have five traps on the go usually. I caught over thirty last year alot of work baiting and checking them.Not many people in our club are trying to trap them.:(

pugw

Viscous looking F**ker! Fair play for keeping @ it I used do a lot of it but kinda gave up after getting a few traps robbed and petrol costs of going around the countryside checking traps!Hope to do a bit now over the Xmas! Any ideas where the cheapest place to pick up traps is?

patdahat

another 1 bites the dust no harm, iv caught them in 3 different colours black, brown and grey/blue.

patdahat

pugw wrote: »

Viscous looking F**ker! Fair play for keeping @ it I used do a lot of it but kinda gave up after getting a few traps robbed and petrol costs of going around the countryside checking traps!Hope to do a bit now over the Xmas! Any ideas where the cheapest place to pick up traps is?

cheap for a mink trap is prob not worth getting it, we got the double entry a few years ago for €20 new, taught we were elected but after a few month the weld's started breaking and mink started escaping out of them. The best ones i find are a single entry but the door is double hinged , think they are between €25 to €30.

pugw

patdahat wrote: »

cheap for a mink trap is prob not worth getting it, we got the double entry a few years ago for €20 new, taught we were elected but after a few month the weld's started breaking and mink started escaping out of them. The best ones i find are a single entry but the door is double hinged , think they are between €25 to €30.

Ah thats not too bad they were between 35 and 45 when I was buying last! Where would you be best buying them? I saw ones in the coop @ home that had a complicated looking mechanism in them but I'd prefer the simple traditional single entry ones!

Invincible

pugw wrote: »

Viscous looking F**ker! Fair play for keeping @ it I used do a lot of it but kinda gave up after getting a few traps robbed and petrol costs of going around the countryside checking traps!Hope to do a bit now over the Xmas! Any ideas where the cheapest place to pick up traps is?

Our Club bought them for €25 each in Lecarrow ,single entry,heard they had double entry for €24 later,the one's we got were "Big Cheese" make. Phone 090 6661114 to enquire what they have.

mr shooter

i cought a blue mink about 2 years ago out fishing in an landing net