This video will cover how to physically place trapline pocket gopher traps.

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Transcript:
In this video, we’re going to cover how to place a trapline pocket gopher set. This is a bonus video that's actually found within the book but is also available unrestricted on the Modern Mole Trapping YouTube channel. This is a typical gopher mound. You will see the fan shape and it's got a little bit of an edge on one side. You can see the gopher plug where he pushed the dirt out. Sometimes this is obvious and sometimes not so obvious. We're going to probe and try to find the lateral tunnel which is what we want to go ahead and trap. There is another tunnel that goes up to that plug and that's the tunnel that you definitely want to avoid. If you put a trap in that tunnel the gopher will typically just throw dirt on the trap. I'm going to use a shovel to excavate down to the tunnel. The tunnel will have two directions to it. I’m going to come in with my knife and kind of clean the dirt out in the tunnel. Sometimes you can get by doing this with your hands. I usually like to push down a little bit and create a nice flat spot in that tunnel. Make it kind of hard on the bottom of the tunnel. Then we're going to use traplines. Here we're using a gopher version of the trapline. It's just a little bit bigger version of the mole trap designed for North American pocket gophers. It’s of a simple wind-up design. I'm holding the trap in my right and left hand, sliding the trigger wire over the front of the jaws, pushing the square trigger forward, and doing a wind. One thing I like to do is to put a little peanut butter on the trap trigger. That gets the gopher in the proper position so that he gets caught humanely every time. One of the things that you don't want with a gopher is a mis-trapped gopher. A mis-trapped gopher has memory and will not go back to a trap for some time. That’s a situation you definitely want to avoid. We'll insert our two traplines in the tunnel. I like to bed the front of the trapline into the tunnel just a little bit. I'm kind of pushing down a little bit on the front edge but the trap should still generally lay flat in the tunnel. We'll stake our trap down. I'm going to put the plug back in and cover it up. Usually, gophers are very, very, active in most cases you're going to catch a gopher within 4 to 6 hours or less - at most 24 hours.

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