GoodJob!!!

Osky yes those cats were huge. I caught them both in the same area a year apart. Right now I have a set in this same area where there is a big track again. I don't know why but these are the only cats I have caught in this area. I have caught other cats but never in this one spot, except the 2 big toms.

160user I couldnt kill that little cat. This is the first one that size I have ever caught.

GOOD of you to let the little one go backroads!
I had a little one in a 220 a few years back. D.O.A. so I put it up and shipped with the others. Little bugger graded Western and went for $500 before commission. One of my other big ones went top lot Northern and only brought $200.

43 and 45 are my heaviest

Ive had several guys bring in "40lb bobcats" most where low 30's and even high 20's (Weighed them after they left lol) but I have mounted a 39lb and 43lb for customers and have seen a few other legit 40lb cats that were caught. I myself haven't even broken the 30lb mark but if I ever catch a 40lb cat I will be mounting it, even though I already have a couple "pretty" ones mounted

Awesome pics. Nice to see states that still allow fisher and marten trapping done the right/effective way. Our lynx exclusion devices are a pain in the buttocks. You could run quite the fisher line with a back pack full of 220s, wire, beaver and lure. Now that same 220 requires a small garage to put it in:(

Morning heading out shortly to pull the marten line,it's a day early.Hope to have some bushy tail pic's later,have a great day everyone.

I'll be heading out tomorrow to waive my magic wand that turns all my fisher sets into cat sets.

nothing today. Will be pulling boxes and BG's tomorrow with fingers crossed. Hopes not quite as high as they were a few days ago.

I had a fisher go right by a set. It must not have been hungry.

I'm a little north of MN but I like to brag.





28lbs male. Caught the cat in a fisher box. Used to never see cat sign but they seem to be getting more common here. Must be coming from MN or eastern North Dakota.

You go right ahead and brag young man, you've earned it.

Great catches, very pretty cat.

Osky

That’s great, didn’t know a cat would stick his head in a box?

Congratulations Pmbna...very nice Catchs

Another marten season is a wrap,worst year ever for movement,proven spots 2 marten.Talked with other trapper friends abnd everyone up here 1 or 2 critters for the too short of a season,still fun,but we normally get our 6 running 30 sets for 4 days.Maybe next year they extend our season back to 9 days at least.Now it's time to trap and snare some bobcats and coyotes.Have a great day everyone.

Hey, Rick. I bought your book last year and have poured over it several times trying to gain as much info from it as I can. Let me tell you what I've been experiencing and maybe you can point me in the right direction.

Last year I had a few cats using certain travel corridors quite regularly. When I say regularly, I mean I might get a picture of them every few days following the same path they used before. Those spots have all gone cold on me this year. Maybe the cats are gone or the prey species is more abundant elsewhere, I don't know.

I have found more cats but they are quite a ways removed from where I had been finding them. Their timing and movements have been unpredictable with the exception of one cat. They don't move through the areas in any particular way. I have cubbies and scent post sets. Law prohibits me from using flagging within fifty feet of a set and snares aren't allowed. As infrequently as the cats move through it would be good to set up right on them but they seem to cross in different places every time, save for the one cat I mentioned above.

The conditions keep changing due to snow every two or three days and it's starting to accumulate. Over a foot on the ground right now. I'm throwing every lure known to man at them but keep drawing blanks.

Not much is moving right now except for squirrels and hares. Any advice?

Nice catch Pmbna.

I caught no fishers or maten for 6 sets. all of them set on sign.

I did catch a cat today.

Nice cat Les, was it in a coni?

Nice cat there les. I would imagine you snagged him in a snare near where you caught that beaver.. now you have a little more bait..