The Cage Trap Advantage

Imagine pulling up to small creek covered with beaver sign, getting a cage trap out of the truck, quickly setting it and moving on.

- Jason Houser

No stabilizing, digging trap beds or fooling with lure and baits. It almost sounds too easy, doesn’t it?

When trapping just about any furbearer, there are more than enough types of traps and manufacturers to go around. Traps come in every size you can think of, whether you’re trying to decide on footholds, body grips, dog proof traps, even cage traps. Choosing which trap to use gets confusing, especially for newcomers to the sport.

However, the selection process gets easier with cage traps. Yes, they come in many sizes and even different styles, but it’s often easier to choose the right trap for a particular animal with cage traps. While you wouldn’t want to buy a beaver cage trap to catch a coon and vice versa, most cage traps tell you in the name of the trap the animal the trap is intended for. For example on Tomahawk Live Trap’s website, you can search for traps by animal and find exactly what you are looking for. This takes the guessing out of what size of trap is going to do the best job.

Cage traps come in many styles and sizes. Some have two doors that allow an animal to enter from either end, with wire triggers the animal must push for the doors to close. Others have guillotine-style doors that allow the trap to be placed against a building – great for situations such as a trail coming out from underneath a building. Still, others have the conventional door that protrudes a few inches in front of the trap’s entrance, with a pan on the bottom of the trap the animal must push down to close the door.

Cage traps work on the same basic principle as other traps. They are placed in areas where the specific animals you are targeting live. A bait and or lure is placed inside.