Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season
[Re: rick olson]
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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: 20scout]
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12/19/23 08:52 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. 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: Northof50]
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12/20/23 06:09 AM
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No comment but I like the way you think! 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. 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]
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12/20/23 07:15 PM
12/20/23 07:15 PM
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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. 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.
NRA and NTA Life Member www.BackroadsRevised@etsy.com
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Re: 2023 Bobcat,Marten and Fisher season
[Re: 330-Trapper]
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12/20/23 11:11 PM
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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]
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12/20/23 11:34 PM
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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.
I can't believe that cop put me in the back seat when I clearly called shotgun.
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