World's Best Gopher Traps

If pocket gophers are tearing up your yard, garden, or pasture, this is the trap professional trappers reach for. The World's Best Gopher Trap is stainless steel, requires no bait or poison, and goes to work the moment you set it in an active tunnel.

We've been running a full-time gopher trapping service since 2018, and this is the trap we carry on every job. It isn't a hardware store compromise , it's the tool we bet our own reputation on, day in and day out.

Why this gopher trap works

• Stainless steel construction — rust resistant, no plastic parts, and built to last for years of repeat use.
• No bait, no poison, no chemicals — set it and walk away. Nothing to re-bait, nothing to spoil.
• Compact profile (2.5" W × 1.5" H × 5.5" L) — sized to seat properly inside a pocket gopher tunnel, which is where trap placement lives or dies.
• Safe around kids and pets — every moving part stays underground, out of reach.
• Approved method of control on organic land — farms, ranches, orchards, vineyards, and nurseries.

Choose your quantity

Available in 3, 6, or 12 traps, with the per-trap price dropping as the count goes up. Most homeowners dealing with a single gopher do fine with 3. If you're covering acreage, managing multiple mounds, or trapping a pasture, go with 6 or 12 — you'll want traps in the ground in more than one place at a time.

New to trapping? Read this part.

Here's the honest truth: the best trap in the world won't catch anything if it's in the wrong place. Tunnel location and trap placement are what separate a caught gopher from a sprung trap. Over 40,000 pocket gophers have been caught using the techniques we teach in our Gopher Trapping Video Training Series, and if you've never done this before, that training will save you a lot of frustration.

Want everything in one box? The Deluxe Gopher Trapping Kit pairs these traps with the probe tool, trowel, gloves, flags, hole covers, and the video training. The Basic Kit has the same tools without the training, for folks who've done this before.

Common questions

Do I need bait? No. These traps work on the gopher's own movement through the tunnel.

Will this work on moles? No — moles need a smaller trap. Use our World's Best Mole Traps for those.

Note: Kits, traps, and training sold here are intended for the control of pocket gophers only.

Ready to take your yard back? Order today, and happy trapping.