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success with new wc mole king eating

wisema2297 Sep 06, 2013 07:47 PM

Caught a small (15 inches) female mole king 2 days ago. I offered a f/t pinky tonight scented by placing in a small snake bag with an earth snake and dekay's snake that I hunted out this evening. Not sure if was the scenting or not that did the trick but she ate it. Good thing for the little snakes too because they received a pass back to the lumber pile.

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joecop Sep 07, 2013 12:32 AM

Congrats!!! I know that feeling of relief. Never had a problem getting w/c adults or sub adults to eat f/t Cb hatchlings---- whole different story there!!!! I have over 20 hatchling md locale moles giving me a headache right now!!! .

wisema2297 Sep 07, 2013 04:40 AM

I know what you mean. I had the same problem years ago with some OBX hatchlings. Had to hunt up ground skinks and slice them open after freezing them and rubbing the pinky in the entrails. Sounds gross but it did the trick. I learned this method from Howie Sherman.

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