Woodchuck Bait

[Team Hoyt]

What's everyone use for this dang critters. Unfortunately where I live I cant use a firearm, I've used my bow b4. But I'm getting over run quickly lol I've tried apples, lettuce with no luck. 

[ny hunter]

How about a bb gun.....or pellet gun..

[Bigfoot 327]

Best woodchuck hunting I ever had was sitting on my Mom's back porch. I nailed 5 in 20 minutes. She had planted a small garden and the chucks were destroying it. They really love newly sprouted green beans

[turkeyfeathers]

22 minutes ago, ny hunter said:

How about a bb gun.....or pellet gun..

Unless throwing some really high fps I wouldn't. Not enough umpf for a humane quick kill

[cbyzerman]

Later the summer the harder it is to get them in a trap..........  Try watermelon and brocolli.......  Nothing beats a body grip in the hole  though...............

[Engraver99]

i use a double open ended hav-a-hart trap with no bait. I set the trap and place it in a position where the groundhog coming out of it's hole has to go through the trap. I enclose the sides of the trap nearest the hole so there is only one way to go. when he come out of his hole...bingo...trapped. I then relocate it. they say there is only a 3% chance the critter will make it once relocated, but I figure that's better than a 0% chance with a bullet. I usually set trap in the morning and take it down at noon. the reason for this is if I catch him, I want him to have time to find a new place, dig a new hole, etc with hours to spare rather than releasing him with an hour of daylight left. I know bleeding heart I have, but don't like killing something for nothing or doing just what they do, or just because i can. Caught one under my barn just last week within an hour after setting the trap. Blocked 1 hole, set the trap on the other.

[G-Man]

A 220 conibear over the hole.. done deal

[wolc123]

Bananas work pretty good in a box trap for woodchucks.   There was one burrowing under my wife's fancy new vinyl front porch a couple years ago, and it only took a couple days to get him with the box trap.   Fortunately, I can use guns here and have killed (2) in the last week, from the backdoor of the garage, with my Ruger 10/22.  The buzzards are tearing the last one apart as I type.    

[fasteddie]

4 hours ago, Engraver99 said:

i use a double open ended hav-a-hart trap with no bait. I set the trap and place it in a position where the groundhog coming out of it's hole has to go through the trap. I enclose the sides of the trap nearest the hole so there is only one way to go. when he come out of his hole...bingo...trapped. I then relocate it. they say there is only a 3% chance the critter will make it once relocated, but I figure that's better than a 0% chance with a bullet. I usually set trap in the morning and take it down at noon. the reason for this is if I catch him, I want him to have time to find a new place, dig a new hole, etc with hours to spare rather than releasing him with an hour of daylight left. I know bleeding heart I have, but don't like killing something for nothing or doing just what they do, or just because i can. Caught one under my barn just last week within an hour after setting the trap. Blocked 1 hole, set the trap on the other.

If you do "catch and release " you are creating a problem for someone else . Some people release them in the country and they become a farmer's problem . 

[fasteddie]

Melons work good for woodchuck bait . They give off a sweet odor . I bought some melon woodchuck liquid bait at Gander Mt years ago and put it on lettuce . That worked until I loaned the bottle to a friend who lost it . Small bottle cost $9 and they quit carrying the stuff . 

[biggamefish]

On 7/28/2019 at 5:07 PM, fasteddie said:

Melons work good for woodchuck bait . They give off a sweet odor . I bought some melon woodchuck liquid bait at Gander Mt years ago and put it on lettuce . That worked until I loaned the bottle to a friend who lost it . Small bottle cost $9 and they quit carrying the stuff . 

melons or cantaloupe are some go to baits.

[johnplav]

Not joking... my in-laws catch woodchucks in their garden using bok choy as bait.  Apparently the woodchucks up in Webster have a sophisticated palate.