Trapline Products

I ordered 6 large original gopher traps and four standards on 10/09/19. I need to change the order to all standards if possible.

Thanks.

Travis Johnson. Please call.

Apparently Western Oregon gophers are the Godzilla of gophers. We have a subspecies in the Willamette Valley called the Camas pocket gopher (Thomomys bulbivorus).

They run about 10" long and close to a pound in weight (about the size of a western ground squirrel that has been binging on pizza). More than twice as big as those little runts in California. These traps are not big enough for our gophers. The dimensions are not given on the website so I had no way of knowing how big they are.

The invoice says mole traps so maybe he sent me the wrong ones. I selected "Gopher Trap" from the website. Now I am stuck with trying to ship these back and try to get a refund.

These looked identical to traps provided by a trapper I hired to teach me to trap the pests. His traps are considerably larger, but I can't seem to to find a source for them.

My favorite trap. The biggest reason is that when installed they are compleatly under the sod.

I do not have to worry about hurting some kid, or pet. And it is much less likely to be ripped off. Just to be double safe, I place a 1' by 1' scrap of plywood over the trap, with HOLE written on it. But watch the online instruction "twice" and keep the front end of the trap down in the soil a little.

I like to prop the back end up just a little bit on a small mound of dirt. When you do it right it is fast to install and out of sight, and effective. The only downfall is that you can not see if it is tripped. But you should probabaly move any trap after two days anyway.

Do not be discouraged if you do not catch a mole the first day.

The trap can only catch a mole that travels through that trail. Moles are real unpredictable.

I've caught 97 moles on my own property since 1913..... I've had 784 inquires about Mole Problems.

I've passed on to people with moles over 1100 trapline mole traps in the same 4 years. Yes they are a little trickey getting the spring loaded, but they are stainless steel, very clean, never rust, and are the best traps on the market. I added a nylon cord and supplied them with red flags to mark the location of the two traps in place below the ground. I always knock down all the mounds so I can tell th next day if I've caught my mole.

Had 100% success !!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT TRAPS

If you take the time to learn how to set and place the Trapline Mole Trap, you will not be disappointed. I've tried scissor traps, plunger traps and sonic mole chasers with poor success.

The Trapline Mole Trap is elegant, simple and deadly. Study the videos and place these traps in the deep tunnels where the moles most frequently run and you'll kill moles. Use a spade to excavate straight into the mole mounds and locate the underground runs. Usually there will be two.

Then push a Trapline Trap into each run and carefully backfill. Set a flag so you can find your trap and come back in two days. Often I get doubles.

I've never had a tripped trap without a dead mole in it. These things work!

I bought these traps on eBay and tried them for 2 months and caught nothing. In the meantime, the moles continued to tear up my lawn.

I watched all his videos and followed his directions. I had caught a few moles previously with the EasySet Mole Eliminator from Amazon, so I know I have moles. The worst part is that I contacted the seller for help and advice and he never responded! Hence the one star.

So I went on Amazon and bought the Underground Exterminator which enables you to connect a garden hose to your car exhaust pipe and fumigate the little vermin. So far this seems to have been effective. I have seen no new activity since gassing them last week. Now I need to do other sections of my 4 acre property and hopefully this will be an effective way to manage the problem.

Also it only cost $18 instead of $50+ for these useless traps, and it's easier to do than constantly setting, checking and resetting traps.

Thanks for nothing Mr. Trapline.

I purchased these gopher traps and have experience with trapping gophers in the past. I have not caught one gopher with these traps after 12 attempts.

The traps I used previously that I will be going back to is the "Cinch" gopher trap. They are amazing and catch the gopher every time. Lesson learned in that if something works well, don't change it. Please don't waste your money on these.

Also, the company will not refund your money if you are unhappy with your product.

I sent three emails requesting a refund. Never returned my email until I threatened to report them to Better Business Bureau and then finally returned my email explaining there would be no refund.

I just go my traps 2 days ago. I have never used a gopher trap before.

On the first try, it tripped the trap, but no gopher. He not only tripped my trap, he also chewed my line off. I guess peanut butter got on the line. I missed him because I setup the trap incorrectly with how I positioned the trap relative to the hole.

Made the hole too big. So I set the trap in the same place, but this time, I was very careful with trap placement, and made sure the trap was right side up, and flushed down into the ground a little. Then I made sure the trap was snug. Covered it up.

I saw a 2nd gopher at a different location, and I setup the 2nd trap. I left it alone. Then at night, I decided to check, and I got both of them. The first one was huge.

The 2nd one was small. I was amazed. The next day, I saw another gopher move. I put in trap again.

2 hours later, I checked, and he was nailed. I think success with the traps all depends on whether you make sure the traps are snug in the ground, and not wobbling or tipping over, and that it's flush enough to the ground, and snug in the hole where it's not wobbly. All of those are elements the person can control. Once I started to be aware of that, and set them down that way, I am amazed at the catch rate.

In my opinion, these are the best traps ever. They are well made, don't look like they rust easy, and once you get used to setting them, they are very easy to use, and very easy to put down the hole.

I have been using trapline mole traps for about 5 years. Have caught close to 200 moles.

Have recommended to several friends who have ordered traps.

Great product. Would highly recommend.

I am the trapper at a 9-hole golf course in southern Washington state. About five years ago I began trying to exterminate the moles on the course.

I used everything from highway flares to poison but it wasn't until a neighbor's dog got sick from mouthing a poisoned mole that I began trapping. I used the Victor Out of Sight traps for about 2 years with some success but a lot of frustration from avoided traps. In desperation I went to the Internet and stumbled into Trapline Products and their small mole traps. The traps are simply elegant; well made and extremely effective.

The first season of use (actually I got the traps in late spring) I got about 25 moles with them. This year I am up to over 50 and I am ordering more traps because our town is full of them and I can make some money at it! The golf course job is volunteer. I secure my traps with braided wire fishing leaders and small bridge spikes.

I also made up some with 1/16" cable and swaged ferrules, which are better because you can haul a mole out without breaking the snap on the leader but they are more expensive than the leaders. The only problem I've had is that sometimes I hit a "room" (wide tunnel section) and a mole will evade the trap.

Every time I set in an active tunnel with a tight fit and well-bedded trap I get a mole. I have recommended the traps to several friends and everyone seems happy with them.

I read the review of the man from Tennessee and suggest he get a larger trap, marketed by Trapline, for larger moles and other similar sized pests. Also, Trapline is clear in their instructions to attach a line to the loop at the back of the product and stake it above ground so a wounded mole cannot back into his tunnel taking the product with him.

I have purchased the product twice and have had nothing but success.

After using the vertical plunger type trap unsuccessfully as well as poisons, gas etc., I ordered this trap on the recommendation of a friend in my neighborhood and swear by it. My success rate per setting is about 50% after three days.

The failures I believe are due to working on older tunnels rather than addressing them when I first see the mounds. While I haven't tried all other traps, I really don't need to as this one works.

I bought a set of 4 Trapline mole traps which turned out to be rather flimsy wire devices with a spring costing $6 each. I don't know if our moles in Tennessee are bigger than the ones the manufacturer has in California, but there's no way these little devices can kill one of our moles.

I wrote to the maker and he said it should work fine. Well our moles figured out a way to spring the traps and bypass them in the tunnel, and also drag them away so I couldn't retrieve them!

I wrote the owner at www.TraplineProducts.com and got NO REPLY! A good businessman might have replaced my lost traps with the larger sized gopher traps--at least one so I could try it out.