Skunk Removal

[fishinwrench]

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Indian build little fire....

Looks like they poop small too

[Guest]

Indians are excellent trappers, maybe I can learn something from the Chief.

[TTJJ]

I may have something that needs trapping. There is a fresh dug small hole under my AC compressor concrete slab. I already set up my skunk trap today and will get my Bushnell black LED game camera set up this afternoon. I’m going with peanut butter and tuna tonight. I have couple Havahart traps (med and large), but will try the PVC trap first.

[Quillback]

The old PVC trap trick.

[mic]

This made me think back and smile. In six grade science, we used to get extra points for bringing different animals and nature related stuff. One of the items was mice... for the class Alligator. My buddy Fred made mice traps out of pringles cans that look so much like a smaller version of that. They worked for him, hope that works for you.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I may have something that needs trapping. There is a fresh dug small hole under my AC compressor concrete slab. I already set up my skunk trap today and will get my Bushnell black LED game camera set up this afternoon. I’m going with peanut butter and tuna tonight. I have couple Havahart traps (med and large), but will try the PVC trap first.

Some animals dig and some don't. If it's really small I wouldn't rule out a ground squirrel or a young groundhog. I know skunks will dig, but they seem to like to do it inside or under. Like barns or porches.

[jdmidwest]

I have toads digging holes in the garden and the yard this year. They have been taking advantage of the mole runs in the yard.

The neighbors mosquito pond also is a breeding ground for toads. The have been worse than grasshoppers the past few years. More like a locust plague. Hard to put your foot down without taking out a few. But they have did a number on the ants that used to bother the bees.

[TTJJ]

Nothing caught last night. Didn’t get any pictures of any animal moving away from the AC compressor concrete pad last night. I’ll replace the bricks with concrete blocks. The hole going under the small slab is medium size. The trap door was closed and locking mechanism in lock position after raccoon attack.

Camera is located about 1 inches from foundation; so whatever is under AC pad has to go thru camera range, if it's still there. I did trap a opossum and a skunk in the PVC trap couple years ago.

After I put fresh bait in trap and adjust camera view just slightly to the right a little this afternoon; I will take a hoe and push some of the loose dirt into the hole, and see if it gets cleared out overnight. If it weren't for game cameras, you'd never know what's going on in your back yard!

[Old plug]

Let me see where to begin.

None of you know me and for the most part I do not want to know any of you. Let me start with this. I do not use the internet much and this site was the first one I have used in years. But you might say I was a internet troll. I used to frequent many chat rooms. with different names of teens and other young people.( who's parents allow them to subject themselves to the dangers of those places) and also Went into several senior rooms. let me explain to you the two easiest things to do on the internet are to make a young girl feel like a grown woman and to make a old woman feel like a young girl. That was not my purpose my purpose was to help catch those people pray on these women and girls. And I have aided in catching of a few mostly stalkers. In the days before good policing and laws to back it up I belonged to a organization call Cyber Angels. The organization had direct contact with law enforcement all the way up to the Secret Service and Interpol. That doe not mean me. I reported and those above me took it up.

As far as LOZ goes. Well it is my home and I do bot like people insinuating it is a some sort of polluted mud hole. I will let the tournament results speak for themselves. A lot of you think that crystal clear water in Table Rock means it is about pollution free. Well A lot of you have no ides how septic systems work and the way it moves through the ground and effects ground water. I can guarantee you sewage will move a whole lot further than the 300 ft buffer you have down their and the Corp of Engineers knows it. Study about it before you talk about it.

I been fishing for over 65 years I have seen more changes. I do not like some of those things. Tournament fishing i do not like. I do not think that really belongs in fishing. Lures and tackle is another area. I grew up with someone who was a pool shark. there were people who wanted to play him for money that he referred to as fish. " I must say I think that applies widely in here. I Got to wonder how many of your over spend on fishing tackle to the point of your family having to make sacrifices. I recently mentioned to someone about something I noticed in a Tackle repair shop I go into go into set on a stool and talk fishing. You know I cannot remember the last time I have seen one of the old round Garcia among several( at times) reels setting on the back counter waiting far parts and to be repaired. I have sen the insides of a lot of these things. Tiny teeth on plastic gears. They are hard and expensive to repair. NOT BETTER by not means. Sure there easy to cast when you lack the ability to learn to cast. And that applies to rods as well. A $25 dollar Cherrywood rod will compare with some highly tooted rods as far as sensitivity and weight are concerned. Then we have lures. A lot of this new stuff coming out is a sales gimmick. I would not know these things about tackle if I would not have lived through that period myself. If I attack something on here it is because I do not like to see people hooked like the fish. If you use one type of lure and throughly understand it you can do very well for yourself. I think many of you are doing nothing more than looking for some miracle. Or trying to keep up with the Jone's . Well there is NOT ONE.

Now to you Mr Trophy fisherman. You made post like you were one fine trapper as recall you trapped a 35 lb coon etc. But Could not trap a simple skunk and had to be told the the difference between the face of a Raccoon an Opossum( that one was shocking to me) to see from a trapper hobbyist or not. People in my area will pay me to rid them of vermin if I would accept it. I say that because I shoot a lot of Armadillos right now. Of course shooting does not seem like your thing either since you missed a target at point blank range with a 20 gauge if I recall with 4's in it. Then there is the garbage in the yard. I do not know of anyone living rural that does not have better sense than to put something like that into secure containers at all times.

Now about my manhood. I am a veteran. I spent 6 1/2 year in the Navy. I spent several years of that on the flight deck of -a WW II carrier that was flying modern jets ( WW II carriers were to small and never meant to carry aircraft of that size and speed) and while not like a grunt in VN it certainly was no place for the faint of heart. I have skipped around and over more hung ordnance including a 1000 lb bomb that was came of during landing than I can count. I have fought several big gas fires one of them as a hot papa. That time on the flight deck cost me my hearing. Do you have any idea what something like that can do to your future and the struggle you will face in society. I doubt it. I have fought for the rights of disabled people. I have lobbied the state senate and house and served on board of some of the handicap organizations. I have also supervised a unit of 65 people.

If you were kidding none of it seemed that way to me. To me you looked like so idiot. And your a bit to full of the BS for me.

This is the end for me on this forum. I have no motivation to stay on here.

[Lvn2Fish]

Thank god.... Back in my day those young tournament whiper snappers catchin all the mans fish yak yak yak.