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reset them and go and hide, then. sort them out . no more problems. job done. it worked for me a few times in the past. Knowing your reputation Snareman, I for one wouldn't be tampering with your snares.
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They could have cut them, I've had that. If you are working legally, then tell the land owner, and try to catch the culprit. A lot of folks don't like snares, and there is no doubt that they can be a cruel method of catching rabbits, BUT and it's a big but, they are legal. They are legal because rabbits can decimate crops, and snares set properly, are an efficient method of rabbit control. Be on top of the game. Read all the pinned articles by snareman and woodga. Use tealers made from 2.5 mm fence wire and paint the tealers with Vauxhall leaf green paint. The culprit won't see them then. Chec
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64IB salmon caught on the river tweed/tay? by a MISS goregina ballentine 192sumthing :kiss: Here you go. http://www.flickr.com/photos/castlekay/2634246609/ They gan on about women being better. Well in this case Miss B was trolling a dace behind a boat which was being held in station over the "lie" by the boatman. Judge for yourself where the skill was.
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For total ineptitude in net handling, rabbit handling, and especially ferret handling, this takes the biscuit. It should have been called tossers are us. The music adds insult to injury.
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Most places I've done, the moles have permanent runs round the field edges. They work out from there into the field. I tend to set the traps between the last two "newest" heaps. I try to cut the hole exact length of the trap and then cover the trap with loose earth from a heap. You can pinch a bit of earth onto the triggers. Squeezed on like a thick £2 coin, or you can fill the hole with loose earth from the heap "no stones" and gently work your trap into it. Most important, though to just keep at it, as weather and other things can affect catch rates. NB! I am an amateur, who has in the dist
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why is there such scorning with using a priest as a humane way of dispatch at the end of the day, whatever way is used, be it pulling or whack on head, if it does the job first attempt, then you have killed your quarry humanely, if your having to touch eyes to see if it flicks, then surely your admitting that sometimes sretching isi'nt working for you, Im not knocking you, but in those instancies, the rabbit is not being humanely killed pull, poke in eye,pull again where as, a whack with a priest to top/rear of head, and its dead Only concern is blood. If you get blood on hemp
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Well done mate, though rather you than me, they look quite deep.
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Nice one Ian, a good informative post.
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Went out probably the same night, (pourin' down) for an hour, got three, all recovered from mixie, ie hair regrowing on face etc. Yuk well done, you did better.
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Hi mate, it's called a spirit burner. Any chemist can order you one, or you'll get one online. They just burn methylated spirit.
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well done mate, a good catch.
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Yes you could use a heat gun, as for the cable ties, suit yourself, this purely to show a method to straighten pegs. It's also the method used by most stickmakers to straighten walking sticks for showing. you can also take a dogleg out of a stick which you wouldn't be able to with cable ties. I'm only trying to put up information which some might have a use for. If you don't then fine. I just cut a load of sticks when I find them, and put them in my loft in a large bucket. I can make a dozen pegs, ramrod straight in an evening from unlikely looking sticks. If the hazel in your a
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High guys. I uploaded this brief guide on straightening long net pegs onto Utube as the file was too large to put on here. You can PM me if you can tell me the secret of loading video on this site. I hope it helps someone. ian
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Nice catch teejay, are you going to pop a fox snare or two down. After reading one of snareman's articles, I did and had a fox first morning. Took a pic but my computer crashed knackered whirr bang. Got a new one but lost my pics. Really satisfying after losing rabbits to see one of the culprips waiting for you at first light. Nice catch teejay and good pics.
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I have heard about this system but I thought it was for people with little or no fieldcraft. Tiercel @ Tiercel... It sometimes seems that way Tiercel,..but,..having used both methods ,..( I was once a competent 'back pegger')...but,..when I started lamping the various quarry with lurchers,.I ceased using the long nets at night,.and simply ran them out for the daytime ferreting work... And I abandoned the old ways..! Just for the craic,..I had a crack at the 'back pegging' the other day,.but,.I was crap,.. Maybe I could get my 'eye' back in,.work on my tensions,.. and pe
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I use a similar set up, and it works. I tend to use a trace of about three to four feet long, as I feel the salmon might be disturbed if when taking the worm, the lead then rattles round to its side. NB the main point here is that salmon don't take like trout, you'll get no hard knocks just rumblings and gentle pulls. DO NOTHING, it could take 10 seconds ,it could take 5 minutes, but wait till the fish starts to swim away with your worm, and it will. When it does it'll be hooked down the throat, and won't come off. If you want to release the fish, cut the nylon in it's mouth, it will be fine,
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Before this is seen as an im doing it right and your not kind of reply i can assure you it isnt, just another longnetter having a debate with a fellow netter when i was talking about watching them squat i was in fact refering to night time use, it was because i could see their sillohetes (spelling?) as i was below them whilst netting a raised green on a golf course. And like you i too work alone for most of my long netting and i can honestly say i find setting the net and pegging single handed no problem. As for speed i feel to much is made of speed whilst long netting at night. if you us
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No more helping people with moles.
ianrob replied to trappa's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Strange posts on a trapping forum, loads of angry chappies talking about why their not telling anyone anything??? come on guys lighten up and tell us all your secrets, we won't say nowt. -
Sorry but i have to strongly dissagree with this. As witnessed on many occassions, more so at this time of the year, if your quiet when setting they will often sit and not bolt. They know you are there but a rule of survival is to stay still untill the danger has passed, then they will bolt for cover. With this in mind you can see the importance of peging as you set the net otherwise as you run the net out the rabbits bolt over the top of it as you have passed so walking back pegging is a waste of time as they have bolted allready. How do i know this? I have a drop or two that i do on a golf
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Firstly As I replied to mapreader, If the rabbits know you are there you'll get nothing regardless of what you do. If they don't then it doesn't matter how you work. I think the name bant is a Welsh derivative of the term band used for the top and bottom running lines used by old men round here, especially as old bands were often recruited for the job. It matters not one iota though what I think we'll never know for sure.
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Harold Wyman specifically relates the pegging to the amount of rubbish the net picks up. Do the rabbits Know you're there? If they do, whether you peg as you go or back peg you'll get nowt. As to the three fifty yarder scenario, yes it would be hassle, and I tend to work one hundred yarder when alone, but I've worked three fifty yarders alone before. It has to be windy on a dark site though.
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Hi Joe, You have some very experienced replies already. I love longnets so I'll put in my three penneth. Long nets tend to be used more now for ferreting than they used to be, as traditionally it was a way of trapping rabbits which were out feeding. Basically it is a net lets say 100 yards long, but put onto two cords along which it can slide say 50 yards long, "though can be any length you want". Two yards of net stretched tight to every yard of cord or running line, "we called them bands" probably where Harold Wymans' term" bant" cord came from.1.this seems to be sufficient bag or slack in
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If you layout the two types of net side by side and open them out into a circle you will see the nets cover exactly the same area. only differance is you will have 4 small triangles, one at each corner doing nothing, the meshs will be closed and seving no purpose. Now if your saying the un-shaped nets dont suit you then thats a differant matter, but to say one is better than the other doesnt make sence. just my opinion of course. Hi mole catcher, I know that if you lay them flat they cover the same area, it would be impossible for them not to however if the rabbit hits close to a
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cheers mate for the input.
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Ian..........put the ferret cage at a low level so dog can sniff right up to the cage wire and go nose to nose with the ferrets........they will soon get used to each other.........always works for me. My beddie whippet and the ferrets quite happily work with each other and i have never had a problem in any way over many years of working dogs and ferrets together. Regards Rolfe That reminds me of something that happened over 20 years ago. I'd just been given a big hob and when I say big I mean big, anyway my lurcher bitch at that time was used to ferrets and they were used to