CQ,
That is a good observation.  The same happens here while trapping weasels and mink.   A set that has caught them, will continue to.  With mink once I catch a mink, I no longer re-bait it.  They add the smell for the attraction for the next one.
This happens even with lynx, year after year, there is a particular tree which always catches lynx.  I made several sets within close distance, yet the old location seems to draw them.

I hope you guys don't mind me chiming in from over here.  I certainly don't have any experience with your conditions or islands...
Here is a link to a bunch of items used here.
http://www.pcsoutdoors.com/weaseltrappinglure.aspx

Alaska hunter wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 10:40am:

not at all! you fellas must be the world leaders at trapping over there. always great to see/hear new ideas etc.
some interesting lures etc. pretty sure we would have problems importing it with gland product etc.

I was talking to Robin Thomas from the QE11 trust in the weekend who has incredible knowledge and experience in predator control. He gets very good results using bright orange ping pong balls brought from the wharehouse as bait in his traps.... not joking!

chris wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 10:43am:


Chris,if you have a hayshed, put new  made boxes down there with some grain in and let the mice take over for a couple of weeks. Then put boxes out on the line baited for stoats.

I had a talk to an old trapper this week who has used, with great success, eels. He said they drag an eel over the ground for 100m before putting some in the trap and any ferret cutting the scent is a goner

sako wrote on Oct 7^th, 2013 at 4:50pm:


He was looking for other options than eggs that were expensive when doing extensive control so thought he would use artificial eggs dipped in a powdered egg solution. But the artificial eggs were also very expensive when you need a large number. so instead decided to try ping pong balls coated in powdered egg solution.
The cheapest option was from the wharehouse with packs of a dozen that had six white ones an six flouro orange coloured ones.
He initially only used the white ones which worked well and after a while he even stopped dipping them in egg solution with no loss of effectiveness! Since he had a heap of flouro ones he though he might a well give them a try and they worked even better!

Worth a try sako?

I need some advice guys – up at the office today – had a bit of lunch and walked outside – heard a screaming noise and looked up to see a mid-size rabbit about 10m away – running fast and some other loopy looking bastard about 2m behind it – when they saw me the rabbit came back towards me and the other one took off with Cruz hard on its heals
Not sure which one was screaming – but I presume it was the rabbit
I didn’t know what to do – I had a sharp hoe in my hand so walked up to the rabbit but he took off and up a novaflow drain pipe
Only the second one of those I have ever seen here – I am highly offended 
I had set a cat trap on Sunday evening close to the shed – had a pouch of cat tucker in it – but nothing in the trap today
Not sure what that animal was but about 300mm long, fawn and brown colour and quite skinny
So I went back up the hill ripping weeds out round my native plants and old Cruz starts sniffing down a fresh hole – I dug it out a bit so I could get my hand up to the end – it produced four fresh rabbits about 150mm long – so I have stuck one in the cat trap and three in the freezer
Is this stoat/ferret??  likely to go into a cat trap – or do I need some other type of trap – where can I get them – maybe I need a few 
I need help please – got to get this bastard before these chick are on the ground

Getting stoats regularly in the traps now and also some good sized rats



I didn't get to see the biggest rat but the old man said he thought he'd nabbed another ferret when he got the first glimpse of it from outside the trap box...