What is the best bait to trap a mink?
As carnivores, minks respond best to traps baited with fresh kills. Chicken and fish are particularly good baits, but don’t just buy packaged meat from your grocery store to bait the trap. Bloody meat is particularly attractive to minks and most grocery store meat has been thoroughly cleaned and drained.
What is the best way to trap mink?
Mink Sets
- Choose a steep bank. Straight up and down is best.
- Starting slightly below water level, dig a small pocket into the bank.
- Place bait—a piece of crayfish, fish, muskrat, mouse, or frog—at the back of the pocket.
- Add mink lure.
- Place a foothold or bodygrip trap of the proper size at the opening to the pocket.
What to put in a trap to catch a mink?
Minks are strictly carnivorous animals and prefer fresh kills, so use baits that appeal to their food habits. Follow these guidelines when baiting your trap: Bloody chicken meat, chicken entrails, frogs, fresh fish and muskrat carcasses are great bait options to ensure minks come to investigate.
What size traps for mink?
Foothold traps commonly used for mink are the #1 jump trap, #1 longspring, and #1 and #1.5 coilspring trap. The #1.5 coilspring may seem oversized for mink, but it’s a popular mink trap because it is heavy enough to easily drown a mink when set near deep water.
Should I trap mink?
Some people may recommend drowning mink. However, this method is illegal, and for a semi-aquatic mammal is one of the most cruel ways to kill the animal. Trapping is the legally acceptable and most effective way of controlling mink.
How do I get rid of minks in my yard?
Trapping is one of the most effective methods of control for minks. In addition, live traps allow you to capture your pest animal without harming them so you can relocate the mink far away from your property. Minks can often be suspicious of new objects, so live traps can be difficult if not properly placed and baited.
What are minks favorite food?
The diet of mink varies with the season. During the summer they eat crayfish and small frogs, along with small mammals such as shrews, rabbits, mice, and muskrats. Fish, ducks and other water fowl provide additional food choices. In the winter, they mostly prey on mammals.
What size hole can a mink get through?
Remember that a weasel or mink can and do fit through a 1″ diameter hole (about the diameter of a quarter) and if they get in, they will kill every one of the birds in the pen. Weasels are stealthy and are seldom seen, although you can rest assured that they are there.
Where can I find a mink den?
You may locate a mink den in an abandoned beaver dam, holes located along river and stream banks, hollow logs, muskrat burrows, rock piles, logjams, and burrows underneath tree roots.
Where can I get advice on trapping mink?
The members of MinkTrapping.com want to help you reach your goals and our resources are sure not limited to Mink. You can ask for advice on catching everything from Beaver to Weasels, Fisher to Coyote, Bobcat to Fox and Muskrats to Possums. Remember Mink Trapping is not a series of unrelated events.
Who are the famous mink trappers in America?
Names such as Carman, Boddicker, Johnson, Schworm, Stackhouse, Masterson, Schmitt, French, O’Hearn, Kohler, Pedersen, Askins, Sterling and many more were well received. Others that don’t have books out but caught Thousands attended from all over the U.S. Someone told me that they figured there were 24 states represented.
Is there a mink after Mink on purpose DVD?
Mink After Mink On Purpose dvds are still available and to those who have given their reviews I say thank you very much. We all know that to catch mink after mink we need to have a system. A good place to start preparing your plan is by visiting our forum.