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    I spotted a large cat shit in the reserve a few days back – so I hauled a SA trap and a Possum Master trap up there and mounted them together – both on ramps – checked them today and found a large female cat in the SA trap and the PM trap also tripped – all chicken neck baits were gone so must be others involved. She had the same markings and short tail as the others we have been getting in recent months. About five mice and a rat inside her - full of fat so must have been living well.
    Relocated the SA trap about 100m away and put fresh cat liver on the ramps – should be tempting if there are others around.

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    Great catch
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    The steve allen doing the business for me too @time out. Rabbit backstrap bait



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    My inept computer skills wont allow me to do photos so i will try and be visual with my writing skills which are also woeful .

    I have 2 high country trap lines. Trap green 3 has been in the same spot for a year and caught zip. It got moved about 5m 3 trips ago, next time it was checked it had caught a stoat. Last time it was checked it was stoatally full of dead stoat. When i mean full it was full of the biggest stoat i have ever caught. I bought it home and measured it, from the guard hairs on the tip of its tail to its nose was 460mm long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sore head stoat View Post
    My inept computer skills wont allow me to do photos so i will try and be visual with my writing skills which are also woeful .

    I have 2 high country trap lines. Trap green 3 has been in the same spot for a year and caught zip. It got moved about 5m 3 trips ago, next time it was checked it had caught a stoat. Last time it was checked it was stoatally full of dead stoat. When i mean full it was full of the biggest stoat i have ever caught. I bought it home and measured it, from the guard hairs on the tip of its tail to its nose was 460mm long.
    Thanks for the pictures Mate – I can post them for you – amazing work you are doing in the high country - that is one large stoat!

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    i'm also not smart enough to do photos. However i've been the leader of a group doing a trap line north of the Maramataha River, South Block, Pureora for the last 10 1/2 years. Started with 20 single set boxes with DOC 200's, eggs for bait. After a year 66 double set boxes with DOC 200's were added & bait changed to Eraze. About a year ago I started putting in mutton or beef fat rendered down and set in ice cube trays as an extra. Catch no's seemed to up a bit after this. To date we have caught 3305 Rats, 160 Weasels, 92 Stoats, 17 Hedgehogs, 8 Ferrets, 21 Mice, 10 Cats (kittens up to 1/2 grown.

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    Thanks Time Out

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    Quote Originally Posted by techno retard View Post
    i'm also not smart enough to do photos. However i've been the leader of a group doing a trap line north of the Maramataha River, South Block, Pureora for the last 10 1/2 years. Started with 20 single set boxes with DOC 200's, eggs for bait. After a year 66 double set boxes with DOC 200's were added & bait changed to Eraze. About a year ago I started putting in mutton or beef fat rendered down and set in ice cube trays as an extra. Catch no's seemed to up a bit after this. To date we have caught 3305 Rats, 160 Weasels, 92 Stoats, 17 Hedgehogs, 8 Ferrets, 21 Mice, 10 Cats (kittens up to 1/2 grown.
    I was listening to Cam Speedy [i think it was] and he also like mutton fat. I never rendered it down but just rubbed raw mutton fat in the boxes, cant say it made any difference to my catch rate. Next time i cook a bit of mutton i will save some fat and try it.

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    Good work fellas

    That is a hell of a stoat @sore head stoat.

    Re: The posting of photos....if you guys are using smart phones to take the photos. The easiest thing to do is download the app Tapatalk. You then just access the forum thru the app, it makes posting photos so easy !

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    One less in the world tonight. Just looked out the window while we were having dinner and this joker showed up
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    Got this large weasel yesterday, I'm going to have a go at removing the glands to use as an attractant (more on this later) the string stops the handle from jamming and has a corflute flag so I can see it's gone off as I drive past.

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    I bought this trap from Tomahawk Traps USA, it's one of my best cages 6 or 7 cats in approx 5 or 6 weeks I also imported a Comstock double-ended cage from the USA it's probably my best trap
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    This is how to remove scent glands from mustelids (thanks very much to Amanda) I'm experimenting with them and canola oil at the moment. The mustelid smell is probably our best attractant, I've filmed cats, rats, hogs everything going into a trap after trapping a stoat. Scent glands leak yellow fluid testes don't.
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    My cat trap.

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    This I count as 2 possums for Landcare's totals. Because the rats lick the lure off I've put a piece of pipe in the lid and using the same hole cutter have made a lid for it. Then I remove the bait block and put a piece of apple in there with lure smeared all over it that lasts a lot longer. I made the trap have a hair-trigger by putting the twig in the photo under the trigger rod.
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