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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8025066
12/19/23 02:23 PM
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The wolves were back here again last night. The raven's are squawking like crazy behind the house so I better go for a walk and check things out.


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8025253
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Martens are registered,DNR and CO 's said there were more trappers out this year then the last few years.Heading into the boys hockey game shortly.Have a good night everyone.

Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8025272
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Registered two fisher today. [Linked Image]
Saw these tracks near one of my boxes [Linked Image]


Help yourself.



Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8025348
12/19/23 08:37 PM
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Registered my fisher and two of my otter today. Seen a few old friends at the registration center doing the same thing. The CO was great and while taking care of the paperwork, we all had a great conversation regarding fisher vs bobcat population. The CO claims that bobcat will prey on fisher and that would explain or recent increase of bobcat. Came across these tracks later when checking the last half of my short line. No wonder things have been slow around here.
[Linked Image]


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: 20scout] #8025362
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Originally Posted by 20scout
Registered my fisher and two of my otter today. Seen a few old friends at the registration center doing the same thing. The CO was great and while taking care of the paperwork, we all had a great conversation regarding fisher vs bobcat population. The CO claims that bobcat will prey on fisher and that would explain or recent increase of bobcat. Came across these tracks later when checking the last half of my short line. No wonder things have been slow around here.
[Linked Image]





I found those same tracks about 60-65 yards from my living room window.


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: 160user] #8025511
12/19/23 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by 160user
Originally Posted by 20scout
Registered my fisher and two of my otter today. Seen a few old friends at the registration center doing the same thing. The CO was great and while taking care of the paperwork, we all had a great conversation regarding fisher vs bobcat population. The CO claims that bobcat will prey on fisher and that would explain or recent increase of bobcat. Came across these tracks later when checking the last half of my short line. No wonder things have been slow around here.
[Linked Image]





I found those same tracks about 60-65 yards from my living room window.


Did you have to replace the glass??

Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8025515
12/19/23 10:49 PM
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No comment but I like the way you think! smile


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: 160user] #8025579
12/20/23 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by 160user
No comment but I like the way you think! smile

that's what not window insurance is if for.
just make sure some glass falls inside your room and throw in a grouse for good measure. smile

Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: Northof50] #8025591
12/20/23 12:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Northof50
Originally Posted by 160user
No comment but I like the way you think! smile

that's what not window insurance is if for.
just make sure some glass falls inside your room and throw in a grouse for good measure. smile

grin


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: Northof50] #8025667
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Originally Posted by Northof50
Originally Posted by 160user
No comment but I like the way you think! smile

that's what not window insurance is if for.
just make sure some glass falls inside your room and throw in a grouse for good measure. smile


Most every window screen in my house has at least one bullet hole in it. Now the screens come off in the fall.


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8025669
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saw some tracks like that yesterday also, mad

Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8025686
12/20/23 07:08 AM
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Morning,boys won last night hockey game,quite a few of those kind of tracks up here too....Hopefully one of the cats came back through last night,find out in a few hours.

Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8025756
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Get Em'

I found a deer kill on an open logging trail road last evening. mostly bones and hide.


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8025832
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Heading out shortly to see if the critters were on the move last night,Big track bobcat should be making his loop any day now,I figured he would have been back already.Good luck to everyone that are still out there after some kitty cats.

Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8026134
12/20/23 05:34 PM
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[Linked Image]
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I built my first Bobcat walk through cubby, guarded by 2 mb650 0S traps

i didn't have drags so I used 18" Wolf fang cable anchor

Gusto and Spots II

Inside I put Part of a dead deer I found near the beaver pond.


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8026193
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Look's good 330 if there are cats in the area they should check it out,saw one cat track today a medium size 20 something pounds fairly close to one of my locations,it might find the cubby tonight.Still no sign of the big track bobcat,he'll come back when he's ready,one male weasel today.Hung 3 coyote snares this morning and put in a woods dirt hole for bobcat about 50 yards from the other walk throughs set for the big track cat.Have a good night everyone.

Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8026198
12/20/23 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by rick olson
Look's good 330 if there are cats in the area they should check it out,saw one cat track today a medium size 20 something pounds fairly close to one of my locations,it might find the cubby tonight.Still no sign of the big track bobcat,he'll come back when he's ready,one male weasel today.Hung 3 coyote snares this morning and put in a woods dirt hole for bobcat about 50 yards from the other walk throughs set for the big track cat.Have a good night everyone.

I sure hope you Get that Big footed Cat Rick... beings that I was there to see that Track when it came through .

I hope to get a cat here at my stomping grounds...handicapped with no snow like a lot of trappers are.


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8026487
12/20/23 10:41 PM
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Anyone still out there trapping for cats other than the 4,5 trapper's posting a little on here?Still waiting for a few cats to make their loop again,should have a cat or two by the weekend I'm guessing,getting ready to pull the line before the new year.

Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: 330-Trapper] #8026532
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Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
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I built my first Bobcat walk through cubby, guarded by 2 mb650 0S traps

i didn't have drags so I used 18" Wolf fang cable anchor

Gusto and Spots II

Inside I put Part of a dead deer I found near the beaver pond.



In places where I can't anchor solid I will use a 4-6 foot Popple pole as a drag. Even better on a trail set, cut the top 6 feet out of a balsam or spruce tree and anchor it in the middle. The don't go far dragging that "against the grain" of the boughs.


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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season [Re: rick olson] #8026565
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160 I use old juniper fence posts here for drags on my cat sets. Staple a cable extension on the small end and let the try to pull it against the stubs of limbs the old time fencers cut off int he 30's. I have never had a bobcat make it more than fifty feet with an easy trail to follow. Last year a caught a fifty pound mountain lion kitten and it straight lined my drag for quite a way.


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