So, a while ago someone on this forum posted about a mole trap they were going to try made by trapline products. I've tried numerous methods to kill moles including those Giant Destroyers and even a Rodex 5000 with very little tangible success, so I figured I would give these traps a try. I've been using them for 4 weeks or so and in that time I've killed 51 moles. Initially I bought 24 traps, but they worked so well that I went ahead and ordered another 48. I know that seems like a ridiculous number of traps, but I'm trapping the moles out of an 80 acre infested field that we use to jump horses on, and the mole mounds have been a huge problem for almost a decade now, and I figure this is going to be something that I do on an annual basis, so spending a couple hundred bucks on mole traps was a reasonable investment.
The method I'm using to place traps is basically as outlined in the Trapeline Products video on youtube, although rather than probing for the run, I dig down through the mound and follow the tunnel back until I hit a T, and then I put one trap in each of the tunnel directions (I tried probing, but the ground in our field has been gone through by moles for so long that I hit voids in the soil no matter where I probe). I leave the traps out for three days and then go back and pull them out and rejoice at the dead bodies. The traps come without any kind of tether on them, so I put on short pieces of single jack chain and then I use a survey flag to pin through the chain so that the mole can't drag the trap back into the burrow. Also, I keep the traps in a 5 gallon bucket that has dirt in it and I keep a pair of gloves in there in the dirt so that I don't get my smell on the traps - don't know if it maters or not.
Anyhow, I figured that a lot of the rest of you on this forum might be interested in whether these traps work or not. In my opinion they work well and are way cheaper than other traps, so you can afford to buy a bunch and put them all out at once rather than going one mole at a time. The website is:
http://www.traplineproducts.com, and the trap I am using in Western Washington is the large mole trap.
The method I'm using to place traps is basically as outlined in the Trapeline Products video on youtube, although rather than probing for the run, I dig down through the mound and follow the tunnel back until I hit a T, and then I put one trap in each of the tunnel directions (I tried probing, but the ground in our field has been gone through by moles for so long that I hit voids in the soil no matter where I probe). I leave the traps out for three days and then go back and pull them out and rejoice at the dead bodies. The traps come without any kind of tether on them, so I put on short pieces of single jack chain and then I use a survey flag to pin through the chain so that the mole can't drag the trap back into the burrow. Also, I keep the traps in a 5 gallon bucket that has dirt in it and I keep a pair of gloves in there in the dirt so that I don't get my smell on the traps - don't know if it maters or not.
Anyhow, I figured that a lot of the rest of you on this forum might be interested in whether these traps work or not. In my opinion they work well and are way cheaper than other traps, so you can afford to buy a bunch and put them all out at once rather than going one mole at a time. The website is:
http://www.traplineproducts.com, and the trap I am using in Western Washington is the large mole trap.
