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Anyone else trapping mink this time of year? Got 2 savage buck mink in a baited pocket set in 4 days at the same location, have 16 traps down at minute. Am i d only daft enough to b out at it!?

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minktrapper wrote: »

Just looking at your concrete pipe and snare Eddie. Is there any need to bait the pipe?

No need to bait any of those run through set ups. It's all about location. If you can spend a bit of time looking for spots where mink are likely to pass through, then you can set them up with a pipe, wooden box, rocks etc, and then just use them each year. You could leave them as permanent corridors for mink to use, and then set a trap in them whenever you want.

Some places I don't need to do anything except stick in a pipe, box, etc and it's good to go. Other places, I may need to block off gaps/openings, at the location with rocks, brush etc, so as to leave your set as the easiest route for a mink to get from A to B.

Nine times out of ten, a mink will take the easiest route.

If using plastic pipes, I usually cover with soil or rocks, so's it stays in place all year, incase of flooding. Little bit of work involved, but they make one hell of an enticing tunnel for mink.

I'll visit that concrete pipe location, come September, see if there is any sign of activity. Didn't trap that spot at all last year.

Would otters get caught in them? Have you any pictures of your snares? And how they are made up.

minktrapper wrote: »

Would otters get caught in them? Have you any pictures of your snares? And how they are made up.

The loop is only three to three and a half inches wide. There is no chance of an Otter getting caught in one. Even a young Otter is two big to get his head into one.

Caught a fine 1lb + trout last evening. First 1lb trout I have caught where I fish in maybe 10 yrs. Further proof in my mind that mink predate heavily on trout when they are available. Been trapping mink now for a lot of 10 yrs where I fish.

The fish was released again.

Question for all ye trappers. Why are gin traps illegal where as fenn traps are legal.

minktrapper wrote: »

Question for all ye trappers. Why are gin traps illegal where as fenn traps are legal.

Fenn traps are designed to catch and kill small animals like rats, mink, squirrel. They are also designed to be used in an artificial or natural tunnel. They are a body gripping trap, and not a foot holding trap. A gin trap is more so a foot holding trap, and seen as inhumane. Outlawed since the 70's i believe.

Thin line between the two of them.

Distemper in Mink. Any of ye hear of distemper in mink. Seems to be a noticeable reduction of mink numbers around me. Thought it was my trapping that was reducing numbers. I was told recently that they got distemper. Comments welcome.

minktrapper wrote: »

Distemper in Mink. Any of ye hear of distemper in mink. Seems to be a noticeable reduction of mink numbers around me. Thought it was my trapping that was reducing numbers. I was told recently that they got distemper. Comments welcome.

Have never heard of it in mink. What about that dreaded Covid 19 virus?

A Google says they can and do get distemper.

minktrapper wrote: »

A Google says they can and do get distemper.

Any links to suggest there is an outbreak in wild mink here in Ireland?

A wild mink in America has tested positive for corona virus.

It will probably build up resistance to it and pass the resistance on to all the mink all over the planet. Make them in to super mink.

minktrapper wrote: »

Question for all ye trappers. Why are gin traps illegal where as fenn traps are legal.

Gin traps are pressure release.IE something like a paw has to put pressure on the plate to fire the trap. It is a holding rather than killing device.

Fenn and Coniber and others are pull release.IE there is a bait and it is wired into the mechanism so the animal's body has to be well within the jaws of the trap to affect instant death.
Beats me why we aren't allowed to use deadfall traps here. Done right, and in the right size they will kill anything from rats to foxes.

Any mink being trapped. Put my cages down last week. Nothing caught. A good sign I hope. No mink footprints either.

Quiet my end too - may be down to the Big F**K of a dog Otter thats hanging out on the shore of my place in North Mayo currently

Can anyone post a link to a good site with trapping tips, many thanks

Stihl waters wrote: »

Can anyone post a link to a good site with trapping tips, many thanks

If you look back on the older pages here. I think there should be some.

minktrapper wrote: »

Any mink being trapped. Put my cages down last week. Nothing caught. A good sign I hope. No mink footprints either.

I done a couple of weeks. Very little action this year. Not sure why. A couple of lads i know, have had plenty.

Eddie B wrote: »

I done a couple of weeks. Very little action this year. Not sure why. A couple of lads i know, have had plenty.

Maybe you are getting on too of them.

minktrapper wrote: »

Maybe you are getting on too of them.

I think to get on top of mink, you have to trap all year round. I only trap each location for a couple of weeks each winter, so doubt it. More likely, someone else is trapping the rivers I trapped

Eddie B wrote: »

I think to get on top of mink, you have to trap all year round. I only trap each location for a couple of weeks each winter, so doubt it. More likely, someone else is trapping the rivers I trapped

Fairly sure someone is trapping my river too. The more the better.

Thought I had the demons banished from the river. Caught two more this week.
I wonder would thermal be any good for spotting mink on the river during the winter when all the foliage would be gone.

Any mink been caught this time of year.

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I tried my local river a few weeks ago. Got nothing only rats. Even had a couple of trail cams out, and not a mink to be seen. Weather is very mild so far this year. Gonna try a different river next week hopefully

Good sigh that there is no mink around when there are rats there. Hopefully it will stay that way.

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Thing is, rats do a lot of damage to ground nesting birds too

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Talking to a guy who does it 2day between Celbridge and Palmerstown on the Liffey and nearby tribs - got nearly 50 already this year!!

Lots of mink on some parts of the Liffey, other parts have relatively few of them.

Like any wild animal, I guess its down to habitat and the availability and ease of food.

I know a chap who has caught plenty of them on the Liffey, well done to him.

Any of ye try a mink raft for trapping mink.