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Post by hunternotakiller on Dec 16, 2014 9:20:44 GMT -5
In my area of 2C, the fisher population has just exploded. I've been getting the fisher tag every year since they started them and I can catch fisher but just not during our ridiculously short season. The season this year is from December 20th to the 25th. With the fishers large home range, they can be in an area one day and not show up again for another 2 to 3 weeks.
Here is a few a the fishers I've caught and released the last couple of years.
i agree 100% its a stupid season like really end it on Christmas day to top it off!!
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Post by hunternotakiller on Dec 16, 2014 10:14:02 GMT -5
but i want one mounted so ill brave their teeth and claws lol
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Post by davet on Dec 16, 2014 13:57:29 GMT -5
I wouldn't be to a-scared of 'em. Nothing a 22-LR with a bolt action or single shot won't take care of. Just like fox, don't let yourself get so close that they can bite a hole in your rubber boot. It's amazing how skinny your rubber boots will be if they get those teeth into 'em. Not to get to graphic, but if they are like a fox, a fox will growl and bite down on the end of a gun barrel. 'Nuff said.
Oh, 22-shorts or 22-sub-sonic works very well. No need for hyper-velocity ammo.
Dave
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Post by trapperrick on Dec 16, 2014 17:34:53 GMT -5
ok i got a guestion can i use conibear traps on these Well, you can, as long as it's set inside a cubby recessed 7 inches back from the opening and you cannot use anything larger than a size 160 body grip and it has to be set within a watercourse. I don't have a law degree but I slept in a hotel that serves beer.....
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Post by hunternotakiller on Dec 16, 2014 18:26:09 GMT -5
meh to much work ill go with foot hold haha
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Post by Dutch on Dec 16, 2014 20:57:39 GMT -5
ok i got a guestion can i use conibear traps on these Well, you can, as long as it's set inside a cubby recessed 7 inches back from the opening and you cannot use anything larger than a size 160 body grip and it has to be set within a watercourse. I don't have a law degree but I slept in a hotel that serves beer..... But was it GOOD beer?
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Post by hunternotakiller on Dec 17, 2014 14:55:26 GMT -5
got me some traps today. and some fisher attractant stuff(is it legal to use it) got some foot holds by duke (any advice on good or not) fisher here i come
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Post by hunternotakiller on Dec 18, 2014 16:08:49 GMT -5
well im legal now. got my fisher permit the lady at the hardware store asked.. your going to waste $6.70 on a permit that you wont get to use? i said hey ya never know. then she goes off on how she has a bobcat eating her bush and comming to her door i think she is slightly loopy
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Post by trapperrick on Dec 18, 2014 20:11:47 GMT -5
I'm all ready! I have my beaver meat that was canned from the beaver I caught last March, fisher lure and bobcat urine. I'll be setting heavy on Saturday morning.
Good luck to all who are going after fisher and bobcat. Pictures would be great too!
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Post by hunternotakiller on Dec 19, 2014 9:51:28 GMT -5
ive got 6 traps probably wont catch anything but coons and opossums but my goal fisher fox coyote.
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Post by hunternotakiller on Dec 19, 2014 9:52:32 GMT -5
so we have cats that run around. a foot hold wont do much besides mabey break it unless they chew it off?
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Post by hunternotakiller on Dec 20, 2014 17:16:26 GMT -5
finally got out of woods at 12:30. had a staring match with our neighbor for about an hr he was up on ours last night and we were following his tracks. he went on 3 different properties besides his so we just stood there on our side of the line as he paced back and forth. he ended up leaving and now my traps will probably come up missing since he knows i have em out
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Post by trapperrick on Dec 22, 2014 17:17:31 GMT -5
Last year while trying to trap fox and coyote, I caught 2 fisher. Now, I'm focused on fisher and I caught a red fox this morning. He was a nice big one so I'm not complaining! Pics to come.
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Post by trapperrick on Dec 22, 2014 20:40:17 GMT -5
He weighed in at 13 pounds.
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Post by hunternotakiller on Dec 23, 2014 8:23:03 GMT -5
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Post by redarrow on Jan 10, 2015 20:59:11 GMT -5
Hunter, do you know of any local trappers who would give you some pointers? What part of PA are you from?
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Post by hunternotakiller on Jan 14, 2015 9:50:43 GMT -5
Hunter, do you know of any local trappers who would give you some pointers? What part of PA are you from? northwest.. crawford county. there was one caught about five miles away from where i was setting. but after season was done there were tracks so there is still one. just stupid 5 day season
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Post by redarrow on Jan 14, 2015 20:05:03 GMT -5
That's pretty common with fisher, I suspect. Sometimes I won't see any tracks in he snow for a few weeks and then I find new tracks for a few days in a row. If there's one, there probably more. They just have to come through your area while the short season is open. It seems to be as much luck with timing as anything.
I have only caught one that was in season. The other two I caught had to be released. the first I ever trapped was a few years before we had a season anywhere in PA.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 20:10:54 GMT -5
To think when I was a kid while attending a youth field day we would always be told during the trapping part that the pelt was a fisher's but they weren't in PA. How times have changed.
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Post by hunternotakiller on Jan 15, 2015 10:55:52 GMT -5
That's pretty common with fisher, I suspect. Sometimes I won't see any tracks in he snow for a few weeks and then I find new tracks for a few days in a row. If there's one, there probably more. They just have to come through your area while the short season is open. It seems to be as much luck with timing as anything. I have only caught one that was in season. The other two I caught had to be released. the first I ever trapped was a few years before we had a season anywhere in PA. how exactly did u release them?
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Post by redarrow on Jan 15, 2015 15:35:18 GMT -5
I made a catch/release pole from a 4 foot fiber glass tube, like some shovel handles are made from, and some 1/8" cable.
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Post by rudy1234 on May 16, 2017 18:39:24 GMT -5
I'm all for hunting in order to control animal populations while also having some fun but...those of you using traps that cause significant yet nonfatal damage should rethink your approach. The fact that you have to "guistion" if something is legal should be a moral red flag. If you want to be a real Hunter, use a gun or bow and arrow. I'll bet you sleep better at night.
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Post by Dutch on May 16, 2017 18:52:01 GMT -5
How long should I leave this up? LOL
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Post by dennyf on May 16, 2017 19:41:15 GMT -5
Another member, yet another opinion? horse2 Speaking of fishers, got done mowing an archery course today and spent some time yakking with one of our club's archers that I've known for a very long time. Asked him how his oldest brother (we were in the same HS class) is doing. Haven't seen his bro in probably 25 years. He was once a nationally-ranked ATA shooter. Said the bro now has a cabin in Maine, spends lots of time up there in the winter, trapping. Showed me quite a few cell phone pics of his brother's "catch", including several fishers and a heckuva mess of red foxes. Interesting 'yote pics, too. One was as blonde as the one I saw near camp years ago in archery season, another was almost all black. I can remember when we were in Junior High and his brother would show up late for school, pants soaked and muddy from checking his trap line on the way to school. He was into 'skrats back then and there were plenty of them along the streams on his way to school. He also got sent home once, after a skunk had sprayed him while releasing it, came to school anyway. Some of us claimed he always smelled that bad and didn't notice anything different, when our homeroom teacher told him to get out? Morning ritual after that, was for us to crowd up next to him, sniffing. Teacher put an end to that ritual pretty quick, when we suggested she come sniff him up.
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Post by redarrow on May 17, 2017 20:37:11 GMT -5
I'm all for hunting in order to control animal populations while also having some fun but...those of you using traps that cause significant yet nonfatal damage should rethink your approach. The fact that you have to "guistion" if something is legal should be a moral red flag. If you want to be a real Hunter, use a gun or bow and arrow. I'll bet you sleep better at night. Rudy, I don't know how experienced you are or how much you understand the need for hunters and trappers in the management of our wild life. I urge you to keep an open mind about trapping. And I do understand your concern for the welfare of the animals we trap. Unless somebody uses oversized traps for his target,the damage to the released animal is usually very little. The fact that you say that an animal chews it's leg off may be a sign that you are misinformed. There are times when 'coon will chew it's paw if it has been held in a trap for a while. It does so on the part of the paw that has become numb below the jaws of the trap. I would not release a 'coon that had much foot damage. The talk of an animal suffering the pain of chewing it own leg of to escape is a myth. There is a big gray Tomcat sleeping beside my chair right now that was caught in one of my fox sets about ten years ago. He limped around for a couple weeks but after that time had passed you'd never be able to tell he was injured.
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