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Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on November 09, 2015, 04:35 PM:
Howdy all. Came down from the high country. It's winter up there. Snow on the peaks and the temps have been in the teens in the mornings.
Have seen a lot of deer, elk (in the hay fields),
Big horn sheep along the highway and a nice mountain goat billy laying on a rock ridge.
Only seen one coyote. Just to many hunting seasons and they are wound up from all the hunters.
Been doing a little marten trapping. Something easy so I can go along.
See the doctor Wed for my 6 week checkup on the hip.
Closing the old house down for the winter and headed back to the high country.
Have limited internet time so won't be on much until Feb. Have a great winter all.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 10, 2015, 05:21 AM:
Be sure to check back when you get a chance, Friend. We will be here.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on November 10, 2015, 08:58 PM:
Yes, please check in, would love to see trap line pictures as well as the fur!! MARTENS ARE COOL CRITTERS. I saw one in a tree once and chased another through an elky forest with a .17hmr. I really, really wanted his pelt bad!! It looked like a beautiful long red ermine only 8 times bigger!!
Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on November 11, 2015, 04:56 AM:
The hard part lately is getting the pictures. I've been the shotgun rider and the other half has been doing 90 and doesn't stop! lol
I've got 2 marten tanned hanging on the wall. The last 2 marten my great uncle caught many many years ago. It's been said once you feel marten fur nothing else will compare.
LB- I have the picture of the billy goat. Only problem is not enough lenses to be real clear and sure there is one in it. lol
Off to the doctor today and UTV shopping. Expensive trip it's looking like. lol
Have a great winter everyone.
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on November 11, 2015, 06:31 AM:
Be well and Enjoy !
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 11, 2015, 07:28 AM:
Is a Fisher bigger than a Martin? I don't know that I have ever seen either one, or a mink, now that you mention it.
Of course, the only critter I have ever trapped is ditch panthers. I caught one that was so wild I didn't know what to do with him. Wound up dropping the cage in the pool. It was amazing! That cat swam to every corner multiple times as swift and expertly as any beaver that ever lived; for about a minute.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on November 11, 2015, 10:27 AM:
Heck yeah, they are!
I've seen fisher on at least three different occasions. Once, while spring turkey hunting, that sucker trotted past me at like 20yds...looked like a mini-wolverine!!!
A separate time, my dog had 'something' treed behind farmer's son's house. Soon as we got close, the dog ran off and started treeing again. This went on 3 different times and we never did see the animal?
Told my coonhound buddy about that, and he said "it was prolly a dang fisher timbering thru the canopy". Can't confirm, but when I mentioned that to farmer's son, he told me about seeing a fisher crossing down below his house earlier that month...
Go figure?
Fisher file photo:
That is one BADAZZ animal! They eat everything from porky-pines to raccoons, to turkeys & whatever else they can catch!!!
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 11, 2015, 10:59 AM:
WOW !
I thought so, but not by that much?
But. It brings up an event from many years ago. Suddenly, I think I know what it was! I shot it because I mistakenly identified it as a fox, or at least, a very "predatory" looking approach to the call, at night. The unfortunate part was that I couldn't retrieve it from where it tumbled down the side of the hillside.
I walked out there with a flashlight and found out that it was swamp between me and where it rolled. (steep bank) There was a creek, actually, without any way to get on the other side and I didn't realize it was there? I tried several times to slog through the weeds without swimming but eventually, cold and wet, I decided what I thought was a red fox wasn't worth the trouble.
I can easily count on one hand the number of times that kind of thing has happened and every one bothered me then, and still does. I recover everything. Some guys, that have no intention of pulling fur, will leave a scroungy coyote where he lays. Not me. If he's worth killing, he is worth recovering.
I have never seem a photo of a fisher before, but I now know that I have seen them twice, at night, on a stand. The first time, I thought it was an otter and had no interest in killing it. But that second time, he was far enough away and moving through brush and I just made an assumption, basically because of the shape and the dark uniform color.
But, yeah. I think that was a fisher I rolled down the hill, years ago.
WOW !
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on November 11, 2015, 07:37 PM:
Be careful LB. Most western states don't allow hunting or trapping of fisher.
Maine and MI allow it.
Idaho doesn't. Haven't seen one here either, they are mainly north of Boise. Cascade roughly the east west line.
That picture is a big male for sure.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 12, 2015, 06:54 AM:
Yes, you are right, ew.
It wasn't intentional, had I known what it was, I certainly wouldn't have shot it. I wouldn't have shot it if I knew I couldn't recover it either. I have a narrow focus when hunting predators. Sometimes I won't even waste a bullet on a mangy coyote, and definitely won't waste a bullet on a kit fox.
But, I have heard of fishers and although I had no idea of their size, I always assumed they were found "back east" somewhere? That photo looks like a twenty pounder!
Good hunting. El Bee
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