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Ladder trap problem

  • 22-02-2018 09:34PM
    #1
    borrisboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭


    Well lads , any advise ? We left a dead pig in a quiet corner of a field for a week and there were plenty of grey crows eating at it every day. We then put our ladder trap over it during darkness and after a week have failed to catch even one grey. We went to look at a trap that lads were having a great catch rate with and built our ladder the same size 150 mm square. It was bigger (about 200 mm ) The only difference with our trap is that ours is higher (6 foot to the ladder) We have a perch under the ladder 3 foot high. Where are we going wrong ?


Comments

  • #2
    Bogwoppit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    Try putting it up section by section over a few days, gets them used to it.


  • #3
    borrisboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭borrisboy


    The other lads one is welded together and they lift it complete over the bait. There were two greys sitting on top of ours one morning.My buddy could see them through his field glasses. It is half a mile to the nearest road.


  • #4
    richiedel123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 466 ✭✭richiedel123


    borrisboy wrote: »
    Well lads , any advise ? We left a dead pig in a quiet corner of a field for a week and there were plenty of grey crows eating at it every day. We then put our ladder trap over it during darkness and after a week have failed to catch even one grey. We went to look at a trap that lads were having a great catch rate with and built our ladder the same size 150 mm square. It was bigger (about 200 mm ) The only difference with our trap is that ours is higher (6 foot to the ladder) We have a perch under the ladder 3 foot high. Where are we going wrong ?

    Normally people put the ladder trap around it and let them go in and out and feed that way. After a week put the roof onto it and they will go into it


  • #5
    borrisboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭borrisboy


    Ok I will take the roof off for a few days,


  • #6
    meathstevie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,777 ✭✭✭meathstevie


    The club I'm in ran one as well and rather than one large lump of bait stuff like a pigeon carcass minus the fillets ( no way I'd give them to the crows ) or rabbit skin and guts tended to be more successful.


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