Best Bait for Iguanas?

[Sebastian the Ibis]

Anyone else overrun with Iguanas, and found a good bait for trapping them? I have heard "fruit" but have not had much success with grapes or mango.

 

[DocRock]

Overripe bananas.

Iguana hunting is a thing in Puerto Rico, like a real industry.

 

[FL-NC]

Whatever pet iguanas normally eat?

 

[Mr. Zorg]

I've watched iguana hunting in the Netherlands Antilles, what I saw wasn't done using bait. It was catch and no release. One attacked my wife's big toe while lounging on a seaside patio at the small intimate accommodations one morning after breakfast. It didn't draw blood.

http://www.fieryfoodscentral.com/recipe/iguana-stew/

 

[WestKentucky]

I have seen plenty videos of guys in south Florida bow hunting iguanas. A lot of times they will use fishing equipment so that they can easily recover their gear, and fish arrows are a lot more durable than your everyday carbon arrow.

 

[Olon]

Lol I never knew this was a problem. Don't see many wild iguanas in my neck of the woods

 

[whughett]

The folks in the up scale village of Boca Grande, tip of Gasperilla Island, South West Florida hire trappers to capture the critters. A stroll down any village street and one can see the green scaly creatures hanging around. The idea is control not eradication I believe. The trappers live catch then place the cold blooded critters in a freezer to go to sleep. Hides and meat have commercial value. Englewood Sun newspaper articles.

 

[Olon]

My gf is a vet student and all she's got us that if you eat them they apparently taste like chicken

 

[rdnktrkr]

We vacationed at Ft Myers FL this year and I saw at least 1 a day around the house we rented, some were of decent size, the bait store said people hunt them and leave them. We put out some bread and banana peals and the next morning everything was gone, I didn't see what ate it.

 

[jmorris]

Only thing I ever watched one eat was lettuce, when I was a kid. Once they start you’ll have plenty of time before they finish getting it down. Kind of like sticking peanut butter to the roof of a dogs mouth.

 

[Dunross]

I dunno. Looks more likely to catch an iguanna hunter to me...

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Overripe bananas.

Interesting...,

I was gonna suggest a female iguana in heat, would probably bring in the males pretty fast...

LD

 

[WestKentucky]

Interesting...,

I was gonna suggest a female iguana in heat, would probably bring in the males pretty fast...

LD

Then when the males are caught, just put out a memo to the females that the males are out carousing and not working through their list of chores and the females will come to grips at the guys. There... you got all of them.

 

[Sebastian the Ibis]

It’s amazing, every time I go to the county gun range there are more iguanas. There is probably no LESS hospitable habitat for a nuisance pest than the backstop of a gun range, but more keep coming. Now they are at my house!!

 

[Mn Fats]

I wonder how they taste. Breaded and fried Iguana. I suppose "like chicken".

 

[DocRock]

I wonder how they taste. Breaded and fried Iguana. I suppose "like chicken".

I have not eaten iguana. I have eaten monitor lizard. It tastes more like gator or snake than chicken. And it was rather burnt.

 

[armoredman]

" I wish I was in Tijuana, having me some fried iguana..."

 

[buck460XVR]

Iguanas are folivores.....meaning they eat primarily leaves in the wild. If you are being overun with Iguanas, odds are, there is a tree/shrub in your yard with leaves they prefer. That's what I would use for bait....their preferred locally available food.

 

[Speedo66]

I was down on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico one time talking to a local. Guy said mom didn't send him out to buy dinner, she sent him out to catch dinner, which was often an iguana. Said he enjoyed the taste.

 

[Patocazador]

In Costa Rica they called them "pollo arbol" (tree chicken). My wife and I watched a man climb a 60' tree with a pole and rope and capture one. He trussed it up and dropped it to his 2 companions below. By the time he got down to the ground again, they had a fire going and the iguana on a spit.

I took their pictures but lost all those pics when my hard drive failed.

At Chichen Itza in the Yucatan there was a vendor who sold bottled water and roasted iguana on a stick .. like a Popsicle.

 

[Mr. Zorg]

I wonder how they taste. Breaded and fried Iguana. I suppose "like chicken".

My guess is not breaded but instead acting as the "chicken fajitas" at the all-inclusive resort buffet.

 

[Mr. Zorg]

" I wish I was in Tijuana, having me some fried iguana..."

Close - the one hit wonder Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo there's an extra syllable in Tijuana to keep the rythm

"I wish I was in Tiajuana
Eating barbequed iguana"

 

[armoredman]

It's been a few decades...

 

[Dinosaur1]

Many years ago in Vietnam, the little boys used to hunt whatever lizards they were (not iguanas) with sling shots made from bent coat hangers and rubber bands. They would take tin foil and roll a short length tight and bend it in half or a short piece of wire and aim for the little round ear spot right behind the eye. They would string them like fish and take them home and cook them on bamboo sticks over small hibachi grill type burners. Didn't know they hunted them in this part of the world.

 

[entropy]

A chameleon in hot pink?

Many years ago in Vietnam, the little boys used to hunt whatever lizards they were (not iguanas) with sling shots made from bent coat hangers and rubber bands.

I believe those lizards are described by the sound they make.....and it isn't a nice thing to say.