Need mole help from the professionals!!

Hey all,

My wife and I are buying a new house and the backyard has a bit of a mole problem. Every time I go to visit or take some measurements for something, there are new mounds of dirt popping up. Now, I've got plenty of foot-hold, body-gripper, and snare experience, but I've never had to mess with moles before. We are in North-Central WV. What types of traps should I look into? Are there any good videos out there that I should research? What are your all's thoughts? And thanks ahead of time for the response. I'll be sure to keep you updated...with pictures

-Cody

Here is a good thread, however, missing some photos- http://www.trapperman.com/forum/ubbthrea...hrea#Post703491
Many folks like this trap- http://www.trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4492385/Albano_mole_trap_checking?#Post4492385

I have a much bigger problems with moles than most of you. While I have read an awful lot of information and posts on different kinds

of moles and how to deal with them, I have a very serious question: How come I've never seen one? Are there any other places in

America that have absolutely no moles besides southeast Wisconsin? And why is it that we have no moles? ( Don't get me wrong. I have

enough crabby customers now ) I just figured if it was something like the soil, I could start bagging it up and shipping it all over.

I have no problem helping the next guy getting rid of moles. ( Then maybe he could help me get rid of coyotes and rabbits )

Thanks for the links. I ended up ordering 4 of the Albano traps. They seem to a very tough little trap. I just checked the tracking number and they should have been delivered today (while I'm stuck here at work). I'll get to play with them when I get home. And try to keep all of my fingers...!

Paul, it is because your area probably has no earthworms. In the areas scoured clean by glaciers in the last ice age the worms were wiped out along with everything the glaciers removed including the moles that fed on them. Of course I am only assuming you have no earthworms, if you do they might be recent imports, geologically speaking or the recent past in your case.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialanimals/earthworms/index.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/invasive-earthworms-denude-forests/

Wear good leather gloves while learning how to use them. I was looking at them at a vendor display at a WCT seminar several years ago when I don't know exactly what I did wrong but it was like a little Bruce Lee in my hand poking a hole in my finger. I walked off like nothing happened and as soon as I was out of everyones sight I started break dancing and sucking and kissing on my finger then went back to class like it never happened.
I have since learned how to set them and have.nt went exclusively to them but they are a very effective trap maybe not efficient in all situations but very effective.