I've had numerous problems with woodchucks over the years. The Hav-A-Hart trap never worked until recently due to a change of bait. I was telling a friend about my dilemma and how I've tried everything I thought a woodchuck would eat. Heck, they eat everything in the garden, so I figured I'd use veggies for bait, but that worked for catching everything but woodchucks (skunks and racoons mostly). My friend said he knows somebody who's a lobsterman and he uses lobster shells in his trap and it works every time. I wasn't about to go out and buy lobster, but I did have some frozen shrimp left over from last season and tried that....and it worked! Two weeks ago I caught the mother woodchuck and this morning I caught the baby. Funny thing was that once I left the shrimp and stopped baiting it for a few days, the old shrimp started to smell and that is what drew the young woodchuck. Give it a try Tom. Good luck!

Tom, have any luck trapping your woodchuck? Is he still wreaking havock in your gardens?

I've caught all of our woodchucks and now have to start trapping more racoons before they steal all of our apples and grapes. Last year all of my apples were missing, I looked up in a tree and there was a nice little stash of my still green apples perched there in the crook of a branch. After that they started eating my grapes that I use for wine. I began trapping them and got 9 last year and only 1 so far this year.