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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oklahomabassin" data-source="post: 1401475" data-attributes="member: 1546">You can bait a little before hand, but if you have the trap ready, I would just set it, bait it and check it daily. I wish I took pics of it set, I have a dowel rod that is grooved on one end, rounded on the opposite end. I tie a small diameter string to the rounded end and run it out the top and across the top toward the rear of trap. I use the dowel rod to prop door open (groove end goes against panel wire, rounded end against the top of door.(1"sq tubing) The string is tied close to the door end of dowel rod to require less to pull it free. The opposite end of the string is dropped down into trap, from the top (approx 18" in from end) and tied to the top of a 2 gallon feed bucket. When the pigs knock it around they pull the dowel rod out. My trap will allow more hogs to "root" or push in the door to get in. The door propped open seems to help the weary ones enter. Before setting the trap I dig a hole about 18" deep and about the diameter of a 5 gallon bucket. I put soured corn, mixed with a little hog wild in hole to keep all the feed from being cleaned up real quick. (trap has a 4"x4" square floor) I set the trap over the hole, (hole about 2' from end opposite of the door end) I then pour some corn through the top down into the bucket, and a little in front of trap leading into the trap. I try to not enter trap or handle it anymore than necessary to keep my scent off.5 little ones in it tonight. I found out tonight, that the landowner shot at some big ones on Tuesday evening. That may be why they are avoiding the trap that I put out Wednesday evening.[ATTACH=full]83826[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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