Thread: Possum Traping In The Weekend

I have just a couple of tips that may help improve your catch rate young fella.
When trying to lure a possum with baits/rubs like you have dont put it over your trap. Set the trap no more than 6" from your site/tree and rub the lure, starting approx 18" up the tree with your hand, like a smear. You dont want the bugger to play wth the trap which they will eventually do and set it off without being caught. Or while smelling the lure around the trap it will spring on there face and they will never go near another.
Dont give them too much chain either, staple your trap half or 3/4 along the chain. Less is best.
Look for natural approaches to the trap and use what you can too guide them too the trap. An open tunnel of sorts.
Good luck in the future hope you catch heaps.