keeping mice out of your boat

[Fishingaddiction]

In the process of getting the boat ready for winter storage and I got to thinking about mice. What recommendations do people have to keep mice out of a boat?? Thanks.

[MadMan]

This was brought up not too long ago.
Pretty good advice.

https://www.walleyecentral.com/forums...highlight=mice

[point12]

Originally Posted by MadMan

This was brought up not too long ago.
Pretty good advice.

https://www.walleyecentral.com/forums...highlight=mice

One thing I would add is I usually put a piece of plastic sheeting over the exhaust (in the prop center) and tape it tight with electrical tape. It cost a friend of mine a motor job once when the tiny livestock built a nest up inside the motor.


Al Denninger
Point12

[eyeboom]

This usually works for me.

[rpieske]

The advice about D-Con is good. It will attrack the mice. D-Con is a poisoned bait. Place it outside the boat, not inside. Be careful about placement. You don't want to poison your dogs and cats, or have kids get into it. It is generally warfin based and causes internal hemorrhaging. Mice will have time to damage your carpets and seats before death.

I had mice get into my wiring a few years ago. After that time I place moth ball throughout the boat. I put them in little tupper ware containers w/ no lid. I haven't had an issue since.

[K2]

I have always used fabric softener dryer sheets stuffed in any orifice that might work for a means of ingress. I also place them strategically around the inside compartments. I have never had a rodent of any sort in anything I have stored and you don't have the unpleasant smell of mothballs.

Moth balls. I have used them for years and have not had a problem. I tear a styrofoam coffee cup in half and put a few moth balls in each and place in all compartments and a couple along the floor

[2Labs]

Originally Posted by K2

I have always used fabric softener dryer sheets stuffed in any orifice that might work for a means of ingress. I also place them strategically around the inside compartments. I have never had a rodent of any sort in anything I have stored and you don't have the unpleasant smell of mothballs.

In my boat a couple of years ago, the mice used the dryer sheets in my boat for nesting material!! Every piece of it I had was full of mouse urine and feces. I had several sheets of it in every hold in the boat.

My pest control guy says use D-Con.

But, like the prior post says, it is warfarin which causes intestinal bleeding to kill the mice. You don't want your cats/dogs eating the dead mice, so be careful!

Originally Posted by eyeboom

This usually works for me.

Hey eyeboom, where can I get a cat like that? We just retrieved our Lund from the barn after 2 years and the plywood floors (carpeted) are soaked with mice pee. I power washed with Jungle Jake and then with bleach solution. The odor still takes your breath away. I had a half full shop-vac of nesting material and 8 mice that got sucked up and had already rebuilt their nests inside the vac!
I will use mothballs going forward but any ideas for the stench??