Coyotes don't need a season. We averaged 50 dollars on our shot February early March coyotes.

That’s different. You live gods country. lol

I just bit my tongue 😛

I wonder if it's hard for Beav to keep his cool at that Dane Co circus. Maybe his diplomatic skills shine through.

No, I don't. We averaged a full 50 percent more in January The point is if there isn't a biological reason to protect them, so let the market will decide when to harvest

Maybe this is who some folks had to listen to at the hearing last night

https://www.google.com/amp/s/madiso...f38-851a-55d2-9637-28c00bca2021.amp.html

Wow, these people are really shallow... becasue 85% of wisconsin doesnt even go in the woods anymore...

Yep Aje that’s one of the two. She got up and rambled on about totally irellevent points to almost every question. She was at the microphone at least 50 times and she’s not even from here, she’s from Marquette county. Apparently she got limes disease because her land is overrun by mice because there are no more coyotes because we’ve murdered them all. She lost me somewhere in there. And if she didn’t stand up, her friend from Madison by the name of Fitzpatrick did. That’s the one that nominated herself for both delegate spots but lost.

Wow, I couldn't get through the opening paragraph of that. Where would wildlife be without Pittman Robertson? I guess ignorance has no bounds.

I agree k snow.

I made it a little further in the article until she cited Huff Post as 1 of her references.

The question was incomplete since it didn't mention dates, I could care less how they divide up the state, but a common opener hurts the folks in the North. The last few years it was froze up for the mink/muskrat opener.

I can see why it's so hard to agree on much, I favor the longer season because where I trap (mostly in the Park Falls District of the Chequamegon NF), fisher numbers are very low, lots of cats, few fisher. I don't even apply for a tag most years, but this year I did and gave it to a young trapper that has never caught one. He didn't connect, but a longer season would have helped. Since there is an online registration they can close the season when ever the quota is met, so there shouldn't be an over harvest and less permits the next year. They could have a snow leopard season up here and it wouldn't hurt the population one bit, or change the number of tags next year. While I am on a role why is there a daily check on body grips on dry land? Fisher trapping would be a prime example of a three day check on body grips. And when I am mink trapping and see a perfect set for a 110, I know I have to set so my dead mink can reach the water and drown to be legal on a four day check!

Actually the way it is worded now a conibear has to be at least half submerged to be considered adrowning set ... I dont agree with it ,but they added some verbiage to the definition of a submersion set so thats what it is now.

Not many people in attendance at the portage County meeting this year compared to last year. Maybe 40-50? Looked like a lot registered to do the online voting them left.

I take that as body grips between 60 and 75", not the smaller ones.

All body grip traps have to be at least half submerged to be considered a drowner set, it doesn't matter how tiny the conibear is.

If one can't catch a single Fisher in the three month long season that we have now, they probably should find a different place to trap. Continuing to harvest in low density areas doesn't do trappers any favors and extending the season to encourage this behavior is even worse. By shifting our efforts, the data they use to gauge populations changes to our benefit.

You guys are right, it's in the submersion rules not the body grip rules.

Hence the snow leopard joke. You can't hurt a population that isn't there. And why with the over abundance of bobcats do we not get to harvest more and have a chance of the fishers return? Is that good biology, and wildlife management?

Many of todays "low density" areas were the initial core areas. What is causing the shift of location in fisher populations?

I wonder if the pathetic participation is due to laziness, people not caring, lack of awareness, people feeling too busy, or maybe people figuring Conservation Congress is worthless.