caught whitey 2 days ago in a 1 1/2 long for mink,the pastel one today at a fisher set in a 4 coiled bridger 2.short tail/longtail??white one was 2 days ago at my lowest elevation and brownie was at my highest elevation today.what gives??

yes.and thanx for the info.

Lots of Marten are preyed upon by Owls and Hawks.

I use 1 1/2 long springs for short tailed weasels. Works like a body grip trap. I have only caught one long tail and it was white.

Nice catches! Are you using a boat to check your land line yet?

close,some muddy wet fur if nothing else.

pcr2. Nice catches. Thanks for posting the picture. What were the sexes of the weasels? Big one a male, small one a female? Of were they both males?

Jack

No they kill them in the bush.Seen them take them before.Also find their remains stashed in bushes.
Here is the remains of a marten killed by a hawk.

Cooper's hawks are pretty gutsy, red tails and great horned owls don't fear marten.

Osky

Here is a pic a guy took in his backyard,while watching a marten.
It wound up on the cover of an old FHA magazine.The bird is an owl.

Here,the long tails are white by mid-Nov,males and all.I see them occassionally and have never seen a browm one,through the Winter.

i USE GALLON PLASTIC milk jugs with bait suspended from cap. Usually beaver. You have to set pan light. I have seen owls feeding on a muskrat, a hen pheasant in a tree and on a mink I had trapped.

What the brown longtails sell for?

From a PGC download:

In Pennsylvania, most or all ermines change
from brown to white for winter, and perhaps one in six
long-tailed weasels turn white. Some least weasels undergo
the brown-to-white transformation, which is triggered
by shortening days.

if you look at my "not a Hobbie post,you see how light color it is with the hair not combed.almost like he is gonna change and half there.he will start my collection with whitey.always need more tanned hides for the walls.will have a weasel collection of different colors like my yotes.

I caught this longtail during the CNY 6 day Fisher season, I believe it was Oct. 29th. By the end of Nov. probably would have been pure white.


pcr2, the species might have something to with when they turn white??? I think there are many variants to when they turn white... if you were to ask al gore, he probably would say "global warming". Either way nice catches and good luck with your collection of different colored weasels!

I like that color better than any of the all white or brown ones.

same here

Nice catch.

I use a weasel box with a #2 infront of it for the surprises, like coon fox etc. Here in my part of Pa the short tails change by Dec first to all white but I have never caught a white long tail here. I mainly use rats for bait because of our seasons on beaver being after Xmas.