I have one burrowing under my above ground pool. I was thinking about putting a few drops of gas in there hoping he would back out. Thought if it worked for snakes it would work on these critters. Any other ideas?

bacon on a string, when he grabs it pull him out. repeat X500 and put water on to boil...

If you can keep the hole filled with water for a few hours (usually) he'll come out on his own and just grab him, when i was a kid we used to put the water hose next to the hole and just let it trickle enough to keep the hole full and they'd come out the hole and we'd put em in a bucket for bait.

I though about the bacon. I have caught them that way in ditches and such but never out of the ground. This hole is not vertical so the bacon may not work. I am going to try the water thing. Hopefully I can catch him. He will make a tasty little morsel for my dog.

It is just proof that the eco system in your yard is in good shape.

Go on, and put a gold star next to your name, in the "Politically Correct " column.

And if you have a teenage daughter with a PC attitude, well, she should despise you a little less..... not enough that you could tell though. Teens are rough !

Be careful with the fire ant stuff around the mudbug hole, if a pinch of it accidently falls in the hole, no more mudbug. s

I did not think of poison but this mudbug is not in a good place and needs to go.

You will be able to buy firecrackers in a week or so..I am just saying...

throw some butter, garlic, and TOny C , corn and potato down the hole...follow with a match.

just eat em

I sprayed some starting fluid down there and never saw him. I put the sand he had pushed out back in the hole and packed it down. This morning saw no evidence that he is still with us.

I would try to catch it at night. There are alot of mudbugs around the pond i fish and at night they are moving around alot. Just my .02