Trapping mink and big mink.
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Trapping mink and big mink.
What the biggest mink you have seen. My biggest I caught last winter, it was 4lb7oz. Still in the freezer to be mounted. I also caught a blue mink the same year. There’s a pic of the big mink beside a good size female, caught the same day.
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
Not seeing the mink we use to have locally, but certainly more otters, though saying that seen a few mink remains on the M5 down Devon where the culm runs parallel to the motorway, obviously no traffic sense ...
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
SmellySmelt wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27 2020 19:39 -What the biggest mink you have seen. My biggest I caught last winter, it was 4lb7oz. Still in the freezer to be mounted. I also caught a blue mink the same year. There’s a pic of the big mink beside a good size female, caught the same day.
Biggest Ive seen was actually a skin, it was about the same size as yours.
It was an oatmeal colour and part of a collection of the range of colours found in mink, shown during my trapping course.
Didnt know mink had been released in Ireland, I hope you can get ontop of them before they decimate your wildlife.
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
Mike J wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29 2020 10:22 -Too late, they are wide spread across the country, escapees and fur farm antis releasing them since the 70s. There are 4 fur farms left in Ireland still.SmellySmelt wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27 2020 19:39 -What the biggest mink you have seen. My biggest I caught last winter, it was 4lb7oz. Still in the freezer to be mounted. I also caught a blue mink the same year. There’s a pic of the big mink beside a good size female, caught the same day.
Biggest Ive seen was actually a skin, it was about the same size as yours.
It was an oatmeal colour and part of a collection of the range of colours found in mink, shown during my trapping course.
Didnt know mink had been released in Ireland, I hope you can get ontop of them before they decimate your wildlife.
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
Mike J wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29 2020 10:22 -Light doesn’t do it justice.SmellySmelt wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27 2020 19:39 -What the biggest mink you have seen. My biggest I caught last winter, it was 4lb7oz. Still in the freezer to be mounted. I also caught a blue mink the same year. There’s a pic of the big mink beside a good size female, caught the same day.
Biggest Ive seen was actually a skin, it was about the same size as yours.
It was an oatmeal colour and part of a collection of the range of colours found in mink, shown during my trapping course.
Didnt know mink had been released in Ireland, I hope you can get ontop of them before they decimate your wildlife.
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
Between lockdown and my traps getting submerged constantly, and managed to trap my first mink of the season, bout time
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
It won’t let me post a pic
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That’s the one
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
I was forced to use cages but there is nothing like a Fenn to do a proper job.
Keep up the good work.
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Keep up the good work.
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
First of the season for me, little female.
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That’s it.
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
Bloke who runs the Duck shoot on a pool I fish was trying to catch a Mink with the cage style traps but didn't get any when I asked him. They also had a pack of hounds down there but they all walked straight past the bush I had seen the Mink jump into earlier that day!
I wonder if anyone has tried to catch Otters in traps like these
I wonder if anyone has tried to catch Otters in traps like these
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
spincityfan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14 2021 19:28 -Crayfish trap better for otters palBloke who runs the Duck shoot on a pool I fish was trying to catch a Mink with the cage style traps but didn't get any when I asked him. They also had a pack of hounds down there but they all walked straight past the bush I had seen the Mink jump into earlier that day!
I wonder if anyone has tried to catch Otters in traps like these
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Re: Trapping mink and big mink.
piker al wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15 2021 07:07 -spincityfan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14 2021 19:28 -Crayfish trap better for otters palBloke who runs the Duck shoot on a pool I fish was trying to catch a Mink with the cage style traps but didn't get any when I asked him. They also had a pack of hounds down there but they all walked straight past the bush I had seen the Mink jump into earlier that day!
I wonder if anyone has tried to catch Otters in traps like these
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