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Loads being caught from Blackpool beach if you fancy a holiday. Lovely place Blackpool. There is a urinal in every shop doorway.
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Load of Tunnocks!
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I know the farmer well and he believe it works. There's going to be alot more farmers trying this, there was an article in the farmer guardian. The article in the Farmer's Guardian refers to one old timer by the name of Bernard Pratt who wrote in claiming that he now doesn't trap moles but uses marshmallows. Not exactly overwhelming evidence. The farmers are pulling your plonker https://www.fginsight.com/news/marshmallows-radios-and-other-ways-to-eradicate-moles-9245
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In France when the old guys tell their English neighbours that they have been using marshmallows to control their moles it is a cover for their illegal use of poisons.
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Again a bit from Kent, but the Humber estuary and beaches to the north of it are good doggie grounds.
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The strange thing is that the Irish bream fought like tench. Nothing like the wet sacks we had in Yorkshire. French bream fight too. Sorry for hi-jacking the perch thread.
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Does anyone use halibut pellets as used in fishing for rat bait? I would have thought that with their oiliness and protein content they would prove to be irresistible.
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Back in the day I would regularly go over to the Emerald Isle for a bit of bream bashing in the English close season. Then someone discovered Denmark and we started to go there instead. Best catch of slabs I had was 15 all over 7lb. I was fishing on my own as my three mates had decided to go pike fishing and we had all blanked at the location the day before. I just had a feeling and it proved to be right on the day. But, the film on the Olympus jammed and I had no photos to show for it and no witnesses either. Great Avatar you have Neil. One of my heroes.
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When you are bream fishing Why on earth fish for bream? Horrible, slimy things. There's a lake over here where you can catch them almost as fast as you can chuck them up the banking I think that holding perch and bass that way originated in the States and has become fashionable. The French anglers do it too. But then again they have some strange habits. They'd rather spend ten minutes faffing about trying to land a 1lb fish by hand than spend ten Euros on a net so that they wouldn't have to.
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You mean someone who works for Rentokill?
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I'm probably nearer than you Jamie. No good for me though. I'm only a Micky-Mouse pesty. Won't pass the interview
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Do you mean Dacron fly line backing Smithie? If so I'd agree that it is ideal. I used to use it when I first started tying the triggers on but when I ran out I used the pound a mile Chinese braid that I'd got laying around.
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Braid fishing line between 30lb to around 80lb works fine. As does builder's or gardener's twine. The things to avoid are chain or plastic connectors like tie wraps as they don't work properly.
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Smithie, The best way I've found is to put the triggers about 1" back from the prongs. When the traps are new I place the triggers slightly lower so that the rounded corners of the trigger are below the prongs otherwise the trap could go off after setting, or when a mole starts to push the trigger resulting in a foul capture by the hand. As the traps age you can place the triggers slightly higher as there is more grip between the surfaces. After a while you might want to rub the touching surfaces with a wire brush or emery cloth to clean them up. Ideally the trigger sh
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I had a Talpex go off last week and no mole in it. As I was clearing the tunnel to re-set I felt the mole just a little way inside. Not a mark on it. And, like Phil I've had a couple dead 'uns under the trap, but not in it. Strange. Only had a couple of Putanges dragged away in many hundreds of settings. Not a big problem if the traps are pegged down. In soft soil I use plastic plant markers rather than the wire pegs as these hold better. You can get 20 of them for a couple of quid. The problem comes in stony soil or when the clay is baked hard.
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If they are going off in the tunnel without catching or signs of a mole having passed by then it is usually down to one of three things. Firstly check the triggers. The two cut ends should align perfectly when in the trap. Secondly make sure that you are setting the triggers square and not at a slight angle, and when new have around 1 to 2 mm showing at the bottom so the curved corner of the trigger aren't meeting the curve of the trap's legs. The other reason is when the traps are the type currently being sold in French hardware stores and garden centres. The surfaces are just too shiny.
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How very dare you sir! I am no puff. That's my boyfriend.
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Nah! Space suits, crawling boards, ladders. Not a chance. I still bear emotional scars from collecting wasp grubs for bait when I was a lad. And those Asian hornets! One of them got me five times in the chest while i was riding a motorbike in Cyprus. I'll leave that sort of stuff to you pro's
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When I first came over I used all sorts of boilies and pellets, but found three grains of maize out fished them all. I'm not fishing commercials and holiday let lakes though. Mostly virgin or lightly fished public waters and rivers. It would be a different story on lakes where the carp have been fed boilies day in, day out. I used to rent a cottage on a farm estate. There was a small lake where the hunters had some call ducks and a feeder on the edge of the water. I used to see carp up to around 8lb beach themselves to get to the spilled maize grains.
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I don't like doing rat jobs. But I've had to offer some sort of limited service due to the massive increase in numbers last year because of the long hot summer. That killed the mole jobs, but I was getting calls about rodents from my customers. The mole jobs are coming in now thankfully. I draw the line at wopsts though.
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Anybody going out to France for fishing can get good bait at some of the local branches of national tackle shops such as http://www.pacificpeche.com/ http://www.europeche.fr/ And you can pick up cheaper stuff including ground baits, pellets and boilies at http://www.decathlon.fr/ Each of these have stores all over France and you can locate the nearest one using their store locator. Lots of larger supermarkets and garden stores such as Gamme Vert and Jardiland sell bags and sacks of grains including pigeon conditioner, hemp seeds and both whole and crushed maize. Als
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Been looking after a friend's house for them while they are away in Spain for couple of months. He had left two traps in the back garden that I had to clean out, fettle and replace to catch the mole, and then two days later another new tunnel appeared in the front garden. Caught it with a Putange and the little bu99er was brand new, straight out of the box. Scrapers as pink as a rose. Normally I'd expect the first hatch to be kicked out around the end of January / first week of February in the warmer parts of my patch and a couple of weeks later where this one was caught. Looking at the pa
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probably been hooked that many times its disfigured its mouth It hasn't been caught that many times compared to many carp in other waters. I think the disfigurement is down to a genetic problem; that's how it was born. People have known about this fish and its growth rate for years. Given its age there is more growing room left so it is likely to feature in consecutive records over the next few years. When walker caught his then record 44lb carp he removed it from the water and had it taken to London Zoo thus preventing any one else catching it when it weighed a bit more. p.s. Its
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They don't fit inside the spod so I put them on a PVA string and lob out three or four in one go using the big rod. Otherwise I'd have to break them up and put the bits of one and a half or two at most in the rocket. One other thing, you can use custard powder rather than hot chocolate powder to add flavour and stickiness. That is basically corn flour with vanilla flavouring.
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Some French mole traps come with instructions showing the prongs placed down, but I have never come across any pro's actually doing it. As for sideways; I think that Torchey prefers that method. For me, I prefer prongs up, but if the tunnel curves then I put the prongs sideways, so they follow the tunnel. Many times I have found that moles caught when the prongs were up are on their sides. This suggests that the mole rotates so it is on its side to wriggle through. Not every time, but a significant number do it. If you have a straight run then my advice would be prongs up. When you thi
