Keeping Mice out of my gear

[Jim Dodd]

My cousin showed me this trick, and had caught an amazing amount of mice with it !

Here is a pic after two nights in my canoe house.
Smear peanut butter on the middle of the pipe. They crawl out, and go for a swim. Clothes pins work fine in place of the spring clamps, to keep the pipe from rolling off.

The pipe was positioned in the middle of the bucket.

Jim

 

[goldencub]

Jim - my cousin has been using this approach for years in his hunting cabin. The liquid in the bottom of the bucket is anti-freeze and the reason is to prevent the stink of dead mice from permeating the cabin during the time (sometimes a few months) between his visits. The first time he tried it, he used water, and on his next visit, he could smell dead mice 100 yards away, or so his story goes. But now any more, and I can vouch for the fact that there's no smell of mice, or of antifreeze, for that matter, inside! Al D

Edit - that should be "But NOT anymore".....