1HomePest ID Guide Trap InstructionsOnline Store Golf Course InfoTestimonialsLinksContactWelcome to Trapline Products 1HomePest ID GuideTrap InstructionsOnline StoreGolf Course InfoTestimonialsLinksContactTrapline Products specializes in design and production of premium quality stainless steel mole traps, gopher traps, and other burrowing pest traps. Our mission is to produce the most effective mole and gopher traps on the market, and to provide our customers with concise practical information on animal damage identification and trapping techniques to allow for efficient control of your mole, gopher, or vole problem.Over 17 years of mole and gopher trapping experience has gone into the design of our traps. We continue to operate a mole and gopher control service business in the San Francisco Bay Area making extensive use of our own gopher and mole traps. In fact we initially went into mole and gopher trap design and production because we found that the existing traps available on the market gave inconsistent results, and thus did not meet the needs of our service business. Our traps are designed with sufficient spring strength, getting rid of moles and gophers by killing them consistently and humanely. Their stainless steel construction means that unlike most competing products, our traps will not lose power or trigger sensitivity due to rust.Please read more below about the development of our mole and gopher traps, or follow the links at left to find extensive information on proper identification of moles, gophers, and voles, trapping techniques including video instruction, and our online store where our traps are available for purchaseTrapline Products owner Steve Albano and field tech Angel Carpio participate in a University of California study on gopher control.Broad Footed Moles (Scapanus latimanus)in the Trapline Mole TrapThe Gophinator--Building a Better Gopher TrapThe Gophinator gopher trap was designed and tested between 2005 and 2007, and was awarded US patent No. 7,380,368 in June 2008.   The design of the trap eliminates several critically important limitations that reduce the effectiveness of other gopher traps. Many popular gopher traps such as the Victor Easy Set and the Macabee trap (pictured to the right) may catch juvenile and smaller adult gophers reasonably consistently, but lack the power and proper mechanics to reliably hold and kill the larger adults.  Gophers that survive being pinched in a trap quickly learn to avoid traps, and will repeatedly pack dirt against set traps, or avoid traps altogether.  These "educated" gophers can become nearly impossible to trap, and yet they continue to breed and their offspring quickly repopulate tunnel systems, hampering gopher control efforts.As traps rust from underground use, increased friction on the trigger mechanism and other sliding parts of the trap cause trap performance to decline from marginal to completely unacceptable. The Gophinator gopher trap eliminates the prob