Muskrat eat a lot of plants, but when I would trap them I would use ground up fish for bait. Hoping to catch a coon but would catch a lot of muskrats. They could of just bin inspecting the hole I dug in the bank for the coon set.

61 acre water shed lake. bass, channel cat, black crappie, wiper, walleye, redear sunfish, blue catfish and bluegill. To many bullhead and common carp
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