Just run with 120s. The key is bait placement. Get that trap in the back of the box by the bait making that fisher crawl in and try to grab the bait with his mouth. If he can reach in with a paw to grab the bait out of your box then you will get him by the leg and he will pull out of a 120.
I found when I target Fisher I can catch everything but them lol. They will find your marten and lynx sets. The 3 I got last year were all in 330s in lynx cubbies. You don't want too many either as once you hit your quota you have to pull most other sets to avoid them. Couple of years ago I hit my fisher quota on both lines I trap all in 120s set for marten. Sucked cause that was it for marten trapping that year.
Awesome pics guys. You don't know how jelous I am right now seeing those. I sure hope I can get a few pics like that this year. I am so pumped. Those big male fisher is what I want for a mount. They are like mini wolverines!!
Bullgetter, I think i will be o.k on quota I have 7.5 townships and I think one or 2 out of the 3 townships I can take 10 for a quota if it happened. I think it is 3 plus one for the other area or 2. I will have to look at it for sure before I start though your right.
That's a lot of country. Nice to have that high of a quota. Set for marten and you will pick up the fisher. If there is a lot of snow set in the muskegs or any other really dense bush with good rabbit sign. Fisher need less snow cover to get around.
Nice tread !!! I couldn't help to throw my two cents in with regards to catching fisher with 120's. I have found using longer boxes (16 inches long) seems to create a better catch rate on our line. I am not sure why that is but the short boxes don't seem to produce toward late winter in terms of "misses" yet the long boxes do. Using the approved martin 120's/long boxes I personally have not had a big male fisher pull out, that being said several years ago using old duke 120's it was very common to loose a couple of big males a year. We use 50 % ground sets and 50 % I mount the boxes straight up and down 6 feet up from the ground on approx a 8 inch tree.
Good thread nube!
Thanks for the pictures you guys sent in. I've never taken pictures on the line and don't really know why? To lazy I think.
You guys have inspired me and I am going to start.
Best of luck to all of you this season. It's starting to feel like it in the air.
don't like to de-rail this interesting thread, but did everybodys computer screen "stretch" after tomcat posted those nice pics?
I can't understand how someone can post a pic. that suddenly changes the entire format or point of view on someone eles screen. Makes it difficult to view subsequent posts.
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