1285 Fox
I thought some of you might find this intersting.
Some of you may have seen this on facebook, for those who haven't, how's this for a seasons catch? http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...psod0x7zr5.jpg I love the last comment. |
Thats a busy busy man too bad they dont fetch a good price auction ..thanx for sharing keg
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Quite a picture ,a lot of work and time in getting them. Im betting Martys barn pic of coyotes beats this guys paycheck by a long ways .
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That guy sure goes hard, would be interesting to know some of his fox trapping technique. Now I know why we get such poor prices for our fox.
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1285 in one year? On a 100 mile trapline? That is unbelievable. WOW is right. you wouldn't think there could be that many foxes in that amount of area. What an awesome pic.
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It's not like I see one or more every day. If I see one a month I've seen a lot for that month. And the tracks suggest I'm seeing all there is out there. |
Keg, your Northern area probably has high wolf and coyote numbers. My guess is they are keeping the fox numbers in check. The Parkland areas in Alberta appear to produce high numbers of fox by guys targeting coyotes and catching fox in their snares.
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Things change. I don't know what it's like around central Alberta. Wetaskiwin, Camrose, Pigeon Lake, these days but I know that when I lived there there were far more Coyotes there then here. And I know that the Coyote population here is about the same as it was when I was a kid. And right now we have very few Fox and a ton of Wolves. I don't see any connection between Coyote numbers and Wolf numbers. The wolf population here was low up into the 1980s. Now it's very high, but the Coyote numbers seem about the same now as they were then. I'm not sure about Fox, they haven't been around long enough for me to even start to draw any conclusions about their interaction with Wolves or Coyotes. There were no Fox in the Wetaskiwin area when I lived there and next to none here back then either. |
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I'm going to keep trying to find the article/info because it's pretty darned interesting. :) PS. IMO it's just a matter of time before raccoons make the same migration and establish themselves farther and farther north. |
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"Gullable" readers.. picture isn't real ... modified internet photo...jezzzzzzzzzzz :sHa_sarcasticlol: |
Maybe you just need to view the picture from a different angle, Al. :)
http://i743.photobucket.com/albums/x...pse99olq0t.jpg |
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That fox number is insane, I wonder how many he's caught in the years from then till now. |
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Around here, there were as many Coyote when I was a kid as there are now. The Wolf numbers however have increased dramatically. My dad came to the Peace country in 1927, there were about the same number of Coyotes then as there were when he died in 1988, or so he said. And there were Wolves, more then there was when I was a kid from what dad said. Fox were different. When he came into the country they were increasing. By 1950 they were the staple of many trappers income. Then the rabies plaque and subsequent poisoning program wiped them out. There were none anywhere in the district when I started learning how to trap. The first Fox I saw in the Peace district was a classic Silver that I saw east of Codotte lake in 1978. The first Fox I caught walked into a Lynx snare of mine the winter of 1992. Now I see them all over the north but there doesn't seem to be a lot of them. |
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Dad talked a lot about seeing Skunks in the Peace district when he moved here but not Raccoon. He had learned trapping by trapping Raccoon in Nova Scotia when he was a kid but he often said he had never seen one west of Thunder Bay. I saw them in Vancouver when I lived there in the early seventies. They were all over the place down there. I hear reports of them here, some from family members but I've never seen one here or even a track of one. |
Keg, my understanding is most racoon in Alberta are generally in Southern portion. It is probably result of migration north from Montana as weather has warmed in last few years. It is considered as a fur bearing animal in Alberta.
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I ran into Mr brown at the NAFA sale a couple of times... super nice guy! A hard working guy and a knowledgeable trapper. He gave me his pict and I got it blown up and is on the wall in the depot.
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Impressive for sure, it's to bad they aren't worth much
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Hard work pays off eh!
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In support of Daves article on coyote migration the older trappers in BC claimed no coyotes then they finally migrated from Alberta.
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You bet ... It totatly make's sence to me ... the coyote is more of an opprotunist than a true hunter ... follow the easy prey and scrounge up the easy picking's !!!
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Widely debated over the past 10 years and only recently rejected as a full explanation, the expansion was attributed to the widespread killing/eradication of wolves and other large carnivores throughout North America. The removal of large carnivores is believed to have opened up a vast region of habitat for coyotes that was free from competition, while European settlements expanded north, providing ample alternative food sources for coyotes.
It sounds to me like killing of wolves and/or displacing them was only part of the explanation for their migration north. Coyotes are opportunists so I'm thinking that agricultural land development played a larger part. |
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He grew up in Margret's Cove, just down from Cape Spit I believe it's called. He trapped the finger that stuck out into the bay. His dad was a fisherman and sawmill owner. All dad wanted to do was trap and he couldn't take the ocean swells so fishing for a living was out. He left home when he was 14 and headed west to join his brother on a trapline near Codotte Lake Alberta. His brother returned to Nova Scotia to run the sawmill. Dad married a sheep herders daughter and went to trapping/homesteading and making babies. They had no TV and only one radio station so they needed something to do at night. I and my three brothers and twelve sisters were the result. We were a proper hillbilly family. :) |
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