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Any of you lake people have muskrat problems??.... What do you do to get rid of them? besides 180 grain lead and traps...

What are the muskrats doing?

Padraig

All you can eat buffet of dead fish followed by dropping a deuce in my boat house.... thinking about a rat size snap trap or maybe leaving out some antifreeze for those fu*** to choke on.

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Originally Posted by Got Cigs (Post 4482634)

All you can eat buffet of dead fish followed by dropping a deuce in my boat house.... thinking about a rat size snap trap or maybe leaving out some antifreeze for those fu*** to choke on.

Lol. I know exactly what you are talking about. We opened up my cousins boat house this spring after being closed up all winter and it looked like a muskrat murdered a family of turds, ate them, $hit them out and murdered them again. The smell of dead fish and critter $hit was beyond overwhelming. I think they baited some rat traps and that more or less took care of it.

Back in the day we would trap hundreds of 'rats and sell the for usually 4-8 bucks a hide. I don't think they are worth much anymore.

I had a trapping buddy that could trap a pond, but could not put any traps on the bank. The landowner had pets that he was worried about. He would take a piece of rigid foam about 2-3" thick and about 2' square. He would roughly cut a ramp in the middle of each side going from the bottom of the foam on the edge, to the top of the foam in the middle. He would take the same with of 1/4" hardware cloth about 12" long, and wire it to the ramp so that about 6" of it could be bent down into the water the give the rat some traction. The ramp would be the width of a wooden rat trap, which 4 of them would be wired to the foam at the top of the ramp. He would bait each trap with crushed apple and oil of anise. We used the same bait for years with success. Several of these foam squares were put in the pond so that he could catch as many as possible before the pond froze. As a bonus, he never caught a pet!

Good luck!

Whatever happened to them?

I'll be honest, I googled what a muskrat was! :D

They make special traps for muskrats, there is a season for them in NY for when you can trap them though. Usually if you don't want to trap them yourself (because you do need a license) someone will do it for free because they can sell the fur. Or you can just get a have a heart trap and relocate them to a neighbor you don't like down the road.

People in southeast Michigan are known to eat them during Lent. It's a Catholic thing.