What have my fellow Mainers been up to? Anyone persisting through the bad fur prices and ludicrous regulations to trap this fall? I didn't get much chance to trap last fall/winter between college and logging, but I'm looking to get back into the swing of things this fall and hopefully work up a decent pile of fur, maybe even some marten.

Thanks, Alex

Going to trap at least some muskrats during early season then maybe some mink,otter sets with a few sets for bobcats thrown in.Maybe just maybe a few fisher and marten sets.

Ran my first long line last year and learned a lot because of a very generous friend. Caught a pile of fur, learned a little about fur handling, and had the best time of my life.

Anyone putting out some steel for marten and fisher yet?

Caught 114 muskrats and a mink.Not going to trap marten and fisher untill they do away with the exclusion cages.

going to set for marten and fisher tommrow.got 6 beavers, 4 rats ,2 otters and 2 coyotes so far.bruce t good job on the rats. good luck everyone.

Thanks.Good luck trapping.You using the exclusion cages for fisher with the opening in the side or the front?

I have both types. they are all wire i am not a fan of them. but will see what happens.

I'm using a 50/50 mix of wood and wire with my marten boxes, and my fisher box is wire. I've heard of quite a few people getting fisher in their marten boxes.

last year got 5 marten and 5 fisher in them out of 36 traps.

The ones they are getting in their marten boxes are females and small males.I'm hearing the fisher exclusion cages with the opening on the side is working much better then the one with the opening in the front.At least they are catching a few.If you don't mind let me know what you find out on the trapline.Thanks,Bruce

Of the 5 fisher were they caught with the openings on the side of the fisher exclusion cage or the front,or marten sets?

bruce you are right if i was to build more i would do the side entrance ones.Even marten were refusing the ones with front entrace with baffle in it.

they were the front ones all small males and females,

Set 6 Marten sets today and 3 mink/muskrat sets. My exclusion devices are made out of wire, but I have one that I made out of wood to try out this year. I set the wooden one on the ground the rest are wired to leaning or downed logs. Anyone set their wooden boxes on the ground and any advice on setting them on the ground?

I have done the same as you with wiring the wire up and setting wood on the ground. I don't have a whole lot of knowledge of the devices since this is my first year using them heavily. All I know is that I have been told to mark them well before any threats of snow, because once they are buried they are hard to recover.

Good luck.All Keep me posted if you don't mind.

I do believe that there is a strong possibility of this.

I have heard that there was a possibility of it happening this past summer, but people weren't able to work things out to get it done.

That would be nice.Miss trapping fisher and marten.