I think you've got the terms confused, it's normal redneck and your world. I'll pm you the link for the rat fishing, you'll like it. The guy in the video reminds me of somebody........

 

He'll need the force against Darth Shrewder.

 

I got a vole running around now that is pretty smart. It is avoiding all the traps. Seems to know. Maybe its one that,,,,,! Just found a box that says return to sender!

 

I've got a mole that is being a real challenge. I think this guy is the elder mole of his tribe. Could even be the Yoda mole. Anyway last night as I was saying my prayers before bed the idea hit me of how I can get this guy. I'm going to do what Kevin Bacon did in Tremors. Well, I'm not going to stand in front of it and dive away at the last second but I'm going to use the trench idea to get the little sucker to fall out and get trapped. He plows through a narrow section in my flower bed, one side is lined by the sidewalk, on the other is the stone edging. And they always follow the same path (that I've stomped down to many times to count). I know he'll rip through there again.

Don't know just yet what kind of trap....maybe line the trench with plastic sheet and fill with water so he drowns.

Anyway need to go get started. He runs through ever few days between 1230-230pm. His trail is still stomped down and today is day 3 - he'll be through soon!

 

Moles are pretty easy. There are mole traps that you push down into the ground on top of their little tunnels and when they run through the trap gets them. <Mole Trap>

Voles ARE crafty little things. They avoid conventional mouse traps and sticky traps, and all they do with D-con is take the pellets and hide them somewhere. We had one in the bathroom that hid about 3 boxes worth of D-con before I sat and watched what was happening. What I ended up doing is getting a 5 gallon bucket and putting the box of D-con in the bottom. I placed a 1" X 4" board from the floor to the top of the bucket to act as a ramp, sprinkled a few pellets of D-con on it so they'd get the idea and left it. About 20 minutes later I had my vole! He walked up the ramp and dove into the bucket, but couldn't get back out. Then we played 'Titanic'!

 

I might need to go to a mechanical trap. I keep putting it off.

 

We use those traps all the time in our yard. Work like a charm!

 

After watching the Rat Fishing vid it reminded me of Bat Fishing trip a bunch of us kids went on..

One hot summer night we were kinda bored, after watching the bats dive in and get the bugs attracted to the light on the shed an idea pops into my head. Out comes the fishing pole complete with a fly.. We crawled on top of the shed and hid behind the light.. Well I hooked one, he took off like a bat out of shrew-ville as I reeled him in the circles he flew kept getting tighter.. All of my bat-fishing buddies left me.

Now I have to figure out how to un-hook my bat-fish with out getting the dreaded killer rabies thingy.. I commenced to beating my catch of the night on top of the shed till he longer put up a fight.. Out comes the pocket knife I cut the line at the reel and called it a night..

 

Well shorts....if you continue to have problems with the elder vole,you might have to make an appointment with the esteemed Dr.Rube Goldberg.I'm sure he can come up with a "Rube Goldberg device" to solve the shrewed vole dilemma.

 

The Magnum Force

Thats what I am using. Only thing I have caught so far is my finger.

Post office lost my GPS but would probably never lose a shrew.

Accidentally caught a sea gull on a Salmon pole. Tried to be nice and unhook it. Sucker put a hole in my hand.

I came up with "shrew boxer shorts"

 

Or.....

 

Cool!!!! Gonna get one of those and use it in the crawl space.
Those little monsters can't outwit me!!

 

NOT in my neck of the woods,geeze man I'd have the EPA,MTA,BAAQMD,SHERIFFS DEP.,FBI,FISH AND GAME not to mention PETA in my yard with drawn weapons.I really don't care for white bread baloney sandwiches and a thin mattress.
However,I have found that a 20min.road flare shoved in the tunnel thinge with my leaf blower on high WILL gassem!I don't care how shrewed they were.

 

I can see the news cast now.

Papa shrew, Mama shrew, and about a dozen baby shrews all standing out on the lawn in their PJ's watching Bark's home burn to the ground.

Of course there will be a ground swell of sympathy for the now homeless shrews.

 

That blaster will launch a prairie dog about 8 feet straight up. Great entertainment.