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Re: Trigger positioning? [Re: Bushman] #4156473
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So Boco I think you're perhaps using a technique i use on my mountain line. I'll hang a whole beaver on a river flat and then place marten boxes around it. The presence of a whole beaver there year after year seems to draw them in. I'm unable to access 70% of that trapline so I want to pull the fur into these feeding stations. is this a method you're using in some way?

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Re: Trigger positioning? [Re: Bushman] #4156496
12/05/13 11:39 PM 12/05/13 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted By: Bushman
Boco - when you were talking about birds as an attractant you also mentioned you're using a big bait. That got me thinking as I have a lot of trail camera footage of baits from the last three years of wolverine research. Basically a whole beaver hanging where only a climber can get at it. We got thousands of images of wolverine-fisher-lynx-fox-cougar-squirrel - whiskey jacks - and lots of marten on film.

I could see no link between a whiskey jack showing up and then a marten appearing. I'd say 80% of the marten pictures were at night also so bird action is minimal. I'm still not convinced bird activity at marten sets makes much difference.

I do agree though that a vertical box on a tree prevents whiskey jacks from getting caught but it's my least favourite marten set. I like a leaning pole set.

100% my observations and experiences.

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Re: Trigger positioning? [Re: Bushman] #4156514
12/05/13 11:47 PM 12/05/13 11:47 PM
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AV - Your cheque is in the mail!

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Re: Trigger positioning? [Re: Bushman] #4156595
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A lot of the marten activity here is in the daytime.Marten tend to take advantage of the sunshine and hole up with a bone in the colder weather at night.Shrew and vole activity are massive at a large bait as evidenced by holes and scat.I do not feel the need to gang set at the larger bait as a marten once keyed on the big bait and its prey activity around it tends to live near it and keeps returning to it so I will have a pelt to pick up on most runs of the line.Sometimes several marten will set up shop in the vicinity of the large bait and will be picked up in the nearby box sometimes hours after it is re-baited and the trap activated again.This is especially true at very large piles of beaver carcasses,where marten may actually live inside the carcass pile.

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Re: Trigger positioning? [Re: Bushman] #4157004
12/06/13 10:16 AM 12/06/13 10:16 AM
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I agree Boco big baits are a fantastic draw. I once had a marten living in a moose carcass.

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Re: Trigger positioning? [Re: Bushman] #4157113
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I know a few guys in BC that because of those awful full time jobs only have time to check a few traps on the weekends......they make big bait piles and trap them all season. Two or three of these bait piles will pull in a lot of fur over the winter!

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Re: Trigger positioning? [Re: Bushman] #4157173
12/06/13 11:48 AM 12/06/13 11:48 AM
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AV - Your cheque is in the mail!

??? Endorsement fee? confused

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