Thread: Possum trapping

Good to see some good advice

Lures make sure your lure has icing sugar in it a possum will lick flour and move on if it is sweet it will keep licking until it stands in the trap, If you are trapping on a big tree lure it on all sides so any passing possum see the white blaze and comes looking. Possums only smell lures from about 2 to 5 metres. Even lure between traps it is not wasted as if your trap is full that other possum will be looking for that sweet feed tomorrow night.

If you only have a few traps prefeed ahead of your self so that the possum is visiting the site you are going to put your trap on before you get there and you will increase your catch. You will get to know how many nights a trap will catch for and just keep moving the if walking past your old sites lure these up as you go and when you see a possum is eating that lure each night set a trap often the best possum to get caught are the big fury does. Fur prices are good and skin prices are getting better so hope you all have a good season.

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