Re: Marten and Fisher
[Re: UPJake]
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12/12/18 10:24 PM
12/12/18 10:24 PM
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Posts: 23,752 New Hampshire
Nessmuck
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New Hampshire
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Have waited 21 days before connecting
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Marten and Fisher
[Re: UPJake]
#6397162
12/12/18 11:12 PM
12/12/18 11:12 PM
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 7,978 On Georgian Bay, Ontario Canad...
Hutchy
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I am blessed with an incredible fisher population. As in, one area I went today I walked a mile through the bush, amd literally never was out of sight of fisher tracks. And even still, I went two nights with nothing, then boom last night they moved hard and out of three traps got two, and fresh tracks everywhere. Setting on sign is good, but it still might take a few days for it to return. Now, consider that I waited three days with a crazy high population, and assuming your puopulation is low, I have no surprise at all that you haven't seen anything yet. One good cold night and assuming there are fisher at all, I'd not be surprised if you have several.
Are you using a good skunky call lure? Did you see ample tracks when you were setting?
I always rub the bait (beaver chunk) up and down the trees near the set. Really load the bark up with beaver fat. Increase the bait surface area and really get the scent to carry on the wind. I do whatever I can to make it easy for them to find the bait.
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Re: Marten and Fisher
[Re: Hutchy]
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12/12/18 11:28 PM
12/12/18 11:28 PM
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Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 2,794 100 Mile House, BC Can
bctomcat
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100 Mile House, BC Can
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My experience has been that if you are in good habitat and set on sign you should connect with marten within a week. Being that fisher rome a much larger territory I would expect a two week or so interval in a fisher catch. In my area good habitat for both species involves coniferous stands with a closed canopy and lots of coarse woody debris ground cover.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
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Re: Marten and Fisher
[Re: UPJake]
#6397795
12/13/18 05:38 PM
12/13/18 05:38 PM
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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 5,117 Northern Michigan
J.Morse
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Northern Michigan
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Back before I was a has-been and actually went to the U.P. to trap, we usually never had to go longer than a couple days without a catch. It was mostly a Marten line we ran, but there were a FEW roaming Fisher making the occasional track. One year (2003?) my partner and I each caught a Fisher. We trapped in Luce County, and the total Fisher harvest that season was 4....we'd gotten half of them. I have no idea what the population is like nowadays, but a retired Game Warden pal of mine and 3 friends just got back from there and between the 4 of them they snagged 6 Marten and 3 Fisher. They. like us when we trapped 10+ years ago, only trapped about 5 days.
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