Mongoose hunting

[ckfishdive]

Anyone tried baiting for mongoose before? 

 

[Kaeokini]

Yep I made several videos on you tube. Look up Kaeokini channel.

Aloha

 

[ckfishdive]

Did you use any bait? 

 

[Aimright]

Interesting...never knew that Hawaii had mongoose. Just googled it and learned something new, sounds like they are pretty destructive to the native animals.

 

[ckfishdive]

They kill lots of native birds, they were brought in to kill rats. But rats are nocturnal and mongoose are daytime. So it didn’t quite work out. On the plus side we don’t got any snakes. 

 

[Aimright]

I talked to a good friend today who just got back vacationing from Hawaii for two weeks and brought up this thread about the mongoose. He said he saw two of them run across a highway somewhere and also one roadkill. Not sure what island this was on, think he spent most of their time at Maui. So based on his observation I assume these beasties must be pretty commonplace?

 

[ckfishdive]

Yea they are all over the place, only island without them is kauai. It’s our version of squirrels but they are a invasive species. 

 

[PeterJC]

Mongoose are fun to hunt and smart critters. When approaching bait they are slow and cautious like their head is on a swivel 360 degrees looking all around to make sure it is safe. Sometimes they will do about a 3 foot circle around the bait before cautiously approaching. I usually hunt from a spot on a pali (cliff) about 25 feet above the bait and they still spot me even when completely still. When they eat the bait they will take a bit, stop and look around for signs of danger. Very easy to spook them

I came up this this way to hunt them which works well:

Cooked some bacon and had a sheet of aluminum foil underneath. Rolled the foil into a ball. Pounded a piece of rebar into the ground about 18" high and secured the foil ball to the top. Mongoose can't resist the bacon smell. Mongoose has to stretch out to reach the foil bacon grease ball. While stretched out they are less cautious then with bait laying on the ground and they don't look around much at all for danger. Another advantage with this method is they are stretched out and don't move much with provides a much easier target.

Usually if I shoot and miss the mongoose will take off and not return, but with the bacon foil they will return in about 5 minutes. The foil bait lasts long too in the heat and rain.

 

[Monkyshine]

Very interesting techniques. 

 

[ckfishdive]

They are really smart and wary of their surroundings, which then very hard to hunt.

 

[PeterJC]

My sister in law gets more mongoose by trapping in her garden than I do hunting. She uses papaya as bait.. Video is of two mongoose that were caught in the trap together. She has also caught three feral chickens at once in that trap.

https://youtu.be/fXv9cbk5N7k

 

[ckfishdive]

 papaya never knew they are that 

 

[Guest]

Peter, I see you are from CA. Is that where you are shooting and trapping them? If so I had no idea they were there. 

 

[whyzee]

Geez I want to shoot them just because they look like a tree rat!!! 

On a side note, fill a barrel with water and turn the hav-a-hart trap up on end into the barrel. Instant drowning. 

 

[PeterJC]

Peter, I see you are from CA. Is that where you are shooting and trapping them? If so I had no idea they were there.

I shoot them on family property in Maui where the video was shot. I am in Hawaii about 3-4 times a year.

I travel every week for my job so have lots of air mile points which = lots of free flights.

 

[PeterJC]

Geez I want to shoot them just because they look like a tree rat!!! 

On a side note, fill a barrel with water and turn the hav-a-hart trap up on end into the barrel. Instant drowning.

Close. We actually put the trap with mongoose in a bucket. Then we drain into another bucket scalding hot water from the solar water heater system and dump in the mongoose bucket = instant death.