Had my first one minute mole

[swanseajack 227]

No rest for me as my workload has gone through the roof, laying traps this afternoon in the sunshine. I spied the surface run coming out from the hedge, cut the top away, clean it out and lay the trap.. not enough loose earth to cover the trap so I walk 10 steps further up, grap a scoop full of soil turn around to see that my trap has gone off, fck it, too much fine tuning I thought, I lift it and Moley mole is in there :boogie:

[moxy 617]

Good man, hopefully many more to come

 

I was once showing a farmer with no interest of molecatching how to put his traps in, Dug the hole and dropped the trap, then less than thirty seconds whilst disscussing the finer points, snap!

Same as you i thought it had been set too fine but there was moley

 

Needless to say the farmer said "im not paying you for that one"

[swanseajack 227]

Good man, hopefully many more to come

 

I was once showing a farmer with no interest of molecatching how to put his traps in, Dug the hole and dropped the trap, then less than thirty seconds whilst disscussing the finer points, snap!

Same as you i thought it had been set too fine but there was moley

 

Needless to say the farmer said "im not paying you for that one"

The farmer was with me 10 minutes before, wanting me to show him how it's done.. there was a few shitty runs on one side of the field so I showed him then he went about his business... glad he wasn't with me when this one was caught!! I did tell him later on though!!

 

I had one last year, in a garden job, I laid the traps and she said do you want a coffee, being the nice kind of chap that I am I duly accepted, as she went in I saw the trap going off, so I drank my coffee and went back the next day, all surprised that I had caught the mole within 24 hours !!

[trappa 517]

Ha, its nice when u catch them quick. Couple of weeks ago i had dug out the run just as my phone went. Im looking down while talking and the mole saunters straight past!!

[DIDO.1 20,814]

Iv had one stick his head into my hole in the run while I was on the phone, I got him with my trowel.

[cumbrianrabbiter 0]

I cam remeber my first one and thinking to my self stupid trap has gone of by it self but it was nice to see the little black fellow in the trap

[comanche 2,799]

A few years ago I did a job where there were two sets of workings on the edge of a paddock bordering the owner's lawn . It was a classic case of ,"Don't mind the moles in the field but once they head for the garden they have to go ",from the owner.

I was just setting the last trap when the owner breezed past on the inside of the fence on her ride-on mower. Within seconds two traps went off- one in each of the workings . Two moles . I guess they were fleeing the disturbance from the mower.