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    How not to do it................ Where do I start? And another one.............. I thought he was a grave digger
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    Looks just like my spade that. I'm off down to the van to check its still there. I've fancied carefully digging a nest out for a while. I turned one over in my own garden a couple of years ago. The mole ran off squeaking. Didn't lay asleep like yours.
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    I took it off because of the bad feeling it caused amongst some of the old timers on here (look back a couple of pages). I had only made the video to show those who were buying them how to use them. But it ruffled the feathers of those who think that we should keep mole trapping a secret. Once the traps had been sold and used and everyone knew how to work them I took it off.
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    Very good. I think the one I'll be digging out might not be as easy. It's amongst roots.
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    Bit too early yet. Give it another month and the stores will be in the hundreds Funnily enough I found a nest today in a customer's garden this morning that hadn't been there when I last visited in October. The house owner isn't due out until the end of next month and I intended digging the nest out and having a rummage through once I'd trapped the occupant. If I do it next Monday I'll have some barbel bait for my fishing trip on Tuesday
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    As Shropshire Mole and others have said; it all depends. For example, in my own garden I always have two sets of Putanges set in tunnels that have no signs of being there, have probably been there as long as the house has been built, and I check them once a week to take out any visitors from neighbouring properties. That way I don't get molehills because I trap the new ones before they expand the tunnel system. I can keep a half acre garden molehill free with two trap sites. Now, when I do a paid job I'll set traps for the moles I know are there and also for the ones in neighbouring a
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    Any hares on the french fens squire ? I haven't seen any. But then again, I'm either travelling through or fishing, so not really out and about at the right time to see them. Thousands of these though..............
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    Don't forget that moles can make tunnels that last for years and years. The molehills subside over time and become grassed over, but the tunnels are still there. The more experienced you become, the more you will know where these old tunnels are.
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    From early May until the end of June or thereabouts we can hear cuckoos all day, every day. Same with nightingales; no matter where you are there is always a nightingale singing throughout late spring and early summer. And the golden oriole's song is so common that it has been mimicked by some resident starlings. You hear their version of the oriole during the winter months. Totally different from Sth. York's where I used to live.
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    Lynx aftershave?
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    I've injured my pride a time or two
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    Can't see the cross hairs
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    The cuckoos are stirring now too. A couple of weeks ago some moved up to West Africa in preparation for their migration......... http://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking Last summer I went fishing for a few days to a place in France that resembles the Lincs / Norfolk fens and there were dozens of male cuckoos migrating south following the river. I haven't seen so many since we used to go to Cyprus in spring when some days you could see half a dozen side by side sitting on the phone lines.
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    They are on their way. Plenty seen over here in SW France. I'll tell then to get a move on
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    Its not really an issue Smithie. I rarely get moles blocking the traps so they must be willing to go through. The reason I mentioned the wider gape on the traps I'm currently using was just to list the differences. These days I use more Putanges than Duffus traps whereas a couple of years ago I'd just put the Putanges in shallow runs or alongside walls. Another use for them; I save the older traps that are ready for retirement, and if I get a job where I really don't want a call back, you know, the one miles from your usual area, I leave a pair or two of the older traps pushed right down t
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    The thing with the normal Putanges is that they slide inside most straight tunnels with no problem. These are about 5mm wider and the top of the prongs tend to scrape the edge of the tunnel as they go in. I suppose I could use the triggers from the other type if that caused a problem.
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    I've been using some stainless steel Putanges over the last few weeks, replacing the ones I have out permanently on the contract jobs. So far, so good. The spring tension is almost twice as strong as the conventional Putanges. They don't half grip. Look how close the prongs are. Nearly decapitates them! The prongs when set are a fraction wider than the usual ones and the rod is slightly thinner meaning that they are roughly 10 grams lighter. Otherwise they look just the same..... I found some from a different source a couple of years ago and they have stood up very well.
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    Keep going mate! There's still plenty left to trap out there. And the farmer will be pleased that you are putting something back for your permission.
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    Yesterday the postman spotted my van on the drive with the Mole Patrol stickers. He must not have realised that I worked in that line because he came down the drive and mentioned that his son cures mole skins as a hobby. He brought one today. Like a miniature tiger skin rug. He's asked me to leave a few out on top of the post box. All I get are mostly are regular black ones, some with ginger patches and a few silver grey ones.
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    I used to work with someone who did mole trapping on farms up near Penistone, Sth. York's. He caught quite a few white moles, the sort of colour of an albino ferret. They all came from one small area of the farm. And he's not dead yet
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    I got some cheapie traps when I first started out. They worked OK at first, but the wires soon stretched and corroded making them increasingly harder to set and activate. After a few months there was so much play in the trigger loops I abandoned them.
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    I remember maybe 15-20 years back when Wels fishing packages were first advertised,the ebro was an unknown back then,the oackage was to kazakhstan to fish for truly wild huge cats. I have a huge admiration for the pioneers of wels fishing. It isn't my thing, but I respect the dedication and ingenuity that they practised to put this sort of fishing in reach of ordinary anglers.
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    Strange how those Spanish catfish are so camera shy. Some of them have been photographed more than Kim Kardashian. You'd think they'd have learned to pose by now.
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    To be honest it took less than 90 seconds from hooking to landing it. I'd been fishing a small backwater for carp in the evenings and noticed this catfish coming in from the main river just before dusk. The swim was as snaggy as Hell and so I tackled up to hook and hold under the rod tip. It never got chance to run and spent more time in the air than in the water
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