How to Bait Cage & Box Traps Like a Professional

How to Bait Cage & Box Traps Like a Professional

How to bait cage and box traps (also called live traps) like a professional will explain how baits and lures work to draw and entice animals into traps. As wildlife become more accustomed to urbanized areas, you may find yourself confronting a situation where you need to trap a nuisance animal. This training details why baits and lures should be presented to animals in certain ways to improve trapping success. It also explains and shows specific tactics to improve bait and lure presentation to give your trap more "drawing power".

While information will be provided that discusses specific bait and lure recommendations for various species, specific bait and lure recommendations are not the focus of this course. (A list of suggested baits for common species of animals will be provided). This course is about the use and presentation of baits and lures so that you, the trapper, get the most effect from that bait and lure that you decided to use. In other words, this course teaches how to use the tool not about which brand of tool to use.

The information is based on the author's training, personal experience and research in the field of wildlife damage control.

If you need to trap damaging wildlife that is conflicting with your goals, then this course on using baits and lures in cage and box traps is for you. .

Principles and tactics to improve how attractants, baits and lures are used to capture wildlife in cage and box traps.

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What you will learn

• Understand the principles of baiting and luring cage and box traps (often called live traps)
• You will understand how to bait and lure cage and box traps to capture wildlife.
• You will learn the limitations of bait and lures in wildlife trapping.

Rating: 4

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Stephen Vantassel