Snarin tree rats

[fuzz269]

So do you fellas snare squirrels on your lines? When I first strted trapin I was told to snare them to keep them from cloggin my martin sets, but once I started catchin them I realized they were kinda fun to catch and put up. Then once I shipped my first batch I saw the real up side of snanin squirrels, I made almost $100 of my first shipment So now I set snare poles at every midden I can find. At the last sale I got over $2 for most of my squirrels, the ones I shot with the 22 sold for less but not alot, even though some had some prity bad holes were the shot went threw. Here are a few pix.



This pole is leanin against a grainery on a farm I trap, every winter that pole is good for at least 30 squirrels

Of course when I have a loaded snare pole with a bunch of squirrels hangin I never have my camera, there is one midden that when I first hang the snares there is often 5 squirrels hangin the next mornin. Lets see some of your catch pole pix

[white316]

I have never set a squirrel snare,,could never find wire suitable for making snares,
what size wire are you using for your squirrel snares.

[robocop]

I would be interested to know what kind of cable or wire your using to.

[fuzz269]

The best wire I have found is called stainless steel trolling line, it is for fishin I guess, I had never heard of it befor the fella who showed me how to snare them told me about it. I bought my first roles at Canadian tire, right off the shelf I guess it is a comminly stocked item. I found later I could get the same stuff cheeper from the NAFA depote in Prince Gourge and from helford hide in Edmonton. They both sell it as squirrel snarrin wire and it comes on a nice eazy spool to work with. One roll will make a huge amount of snares. Maybe one of these days I will fire up the camara and do a step by step of how I was taught to make them.

[catmando1]

That would be awesome fuzz! Very interesting to me!!!!!! Thanks for posting.

[white316]

Fuzz how much is that squirrel snare wire a roll.

[fuzz269]

I looked in the Helford hide catologe and they want just under $30 for a 1lb roll, plus tax and shippin of course, but one pound of wire makes a mess of snares.

[white316]

I seen some where they used 26 g brass wire,,but i can't find that either,

[fuzz269]

I have some of the brass wire to, and it does work I just like the stainles wire way better, it is so thin that it is hard to see so you get less jump overs and it realy cinches up nice on squirrel.

[nightrider]

I read a story about a trapper who snared over 5000 squirrels a season.

[fuzz269]

I bet a fella could snare that many no problem if he had the population on his line and had all his runnin polls up befor season opend.

[robocop]

Just wondering if copper wire would be any good

[fuzz269]

I have never used copper wire but I would think it would work as long as they were long enough to make sure that there was no way the squirrel could fight the snare for any langth of time, as copper breaks eazer. But copper is probly way more expencive than the ss wire.

[white316]

I have used copper for rabbit snares however it was a bigger size than the common brass snare wire.

[trapp]

I will make a separate posting on squirrel snaring. I have written several articles on snaring the western red squirrel. Personally I have winters of snared squirrels just under 1000 and one winter of 1026. All were using 24 gauge brass wire. Copper is not recommended.