WCS™ Collapsible Turtle Trap

We had a snapping turtle problem. They were killing the ducks in our pond. We could not find a trapper. We found this product on line along with a telephone number (rare these days) I called and talked to a knowledgeable, very helpful person with great advise (again rare). We ordered the trap at 3 PM and received it the next morning. I assembled the trap in minutes, set the trap up-stream in the pond using chicken parts and had our first very large turtle caught 3 hours later! We caught 2 more the next couple days. The trap collapses for easy storage. 3 pieces of advice: 1.Use 2 people transferring turtle to a transport cage. 2.Take the turtles to an area at least 15 miles away, as we were advised the turtle could make it back over time. 3. When setting trap, make sure to leave top of trap a 3 inches or so out of the water (so the turtle can get air to breath) using floating noodle (kids use) or set trap in shallow water as we did.

My husband baited the trap with a can of sardines and caught 4 turtles the first day. He has caught 11 so far. Works like a charm!

Had a few trapping jobs with little success. This call I went ahead onto got two of these traps and set them up on a 30 day program not knowing what to expect. Caught target big boy on one day deployed plus some others. Already paid for itself.

This trap works very well but unfortunately the directions that go with it are lacking some information that I would have liked to have known ahead of time. First thing that I learned is that you want the entire base of the trap in the water just make sure that it is not submerged. I was originally setting it with with the backend out of the water but with no success. Second I do not recommend you move the turtle very far while it's inside the trap. Learned that the hard way because while a turtle that I caught was trying to snap at me it actually snapped through some of the netting. Don't get me wrong though the trap definitely does a good job at catching and holding turtles. Normally I think they won't try to bite through the netting to get out the only seem to use their powerful jaws to either catch prey or as weapon against a potential threat. Again this trap is certainly great but I would keep these two points in mind when using it.

Easy to use, durable & effective. I was pleasantly surprised to see it came with a bait holder. Will be ordering a couple more soon.