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Found hot wolverine sign Thursday (20-21 journal) #7080540
12/09/20 02:48 AM
12/09/20 02:48 AM
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Alaska, USA
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Looks like I caught it Friday evening.
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wait for it
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Last edited by trapperbobs; 12/13/20 01:08 AM.
Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7080542
12/09/20 02:48 AM
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Nice.


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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7080547
12/09/20 03:14 AM
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Wasilla AK
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Awesome! Like the bucket set up! You make that?

Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7080551
12/09/20 03:49 AM
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NWT
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Nice catch!


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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7080553
12/09/20 04:09 AM
12/09/20 04:09 AM
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Copper Center, AK
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Nice, love it when they commit to a bucket. And you had a lid!

Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7080735
12/09/20 09:42 AM
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The Panhandle of Alaska
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Nice one trapperbobs. Congratulations!


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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7080762
12/09/20 09:57 AM
12/09/20 09:57 AM
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MT (Big Sky Country)
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Very nice catch that's always good when it all comes together like that !
Allan


Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7080917
12/09/20 11:27 AM
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Is that a 280?


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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7080945
12/09/20 11:46 AM
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I love those dark ones !! Must be a good location to commit a that much effort for a permanent set like that. I have a couple spots like that as well.


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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7081212
12/09/20 02:47 PM
12/09/20 02:47 PM
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Anchorage, Alaska
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Nice catch.

Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7081232
12/09/20 03:17 PM
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Alaska, USA
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That is a thirty gallon soap drum from the carwash that I made into a 330 cubby, this was a early winter moose kill that a wolverine had worked Thursday. I don't think this is the only one working it. I think it may be a YOY it is pretty small. This could be at least a permanent location for this winter

Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7081291
12/09/20 04:17 PM
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Lake Clark, Alaska
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Congrats! I also found some very fresh (same morning due to snow evidence) gulo tracks last Saturday and set it up, but will not get back to check until this weekend.

Do you, or others, notice recent "return visits" like this often?...doubling back, etc... or did you move "ahead" of the sign and get him where he WENT instead of where you found the sign?... I am sure it all depends on a lot of factors - attractiveness of an area, wind, serendipity, whatever...but just curious.

I always feel like when I come across super fresh sign, I set it with a stinky lure hoping they will 'double back', but I have never had this be the case. Usually they make me wait a looooooong time before any returns... smile


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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7081344
12/09/20 04:51 PM
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I have had them double back in a day or two.

But it is my experience that wolverines are creatures of habit. They use the same travel routes through the neighborhood for generations. I use the same spots year after year with reasonable success.

If you follow them long enough you will see where they venture a few feet off their trail to squirt some stinkum on a low shrub sticking through the snow. I am convinced that others can smell that for years and refresh it from time to time. I think that is why the same route gets used for succeeding generations.

SO.......if you have caught one or seen tracks at a certain spot....... set it... whether there are fresh tracks or not. I also set at every beaver house on my line whether it's dead or alive


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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7081654
12/09/20 08:01 PM
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Lake Clark, Alaska
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Thanks, White! Interesting observation! I do regularly see tracks around "long-dead" lodges. I am always intrigued at why they continue to frequent these. Perhaps it has as much to do with your info above as it does the visiting otters/muskrats, other critters, etc.

As much fun (as I have) anticipating a wolverine check, it's the best game in town. smile.


"...if it moves, ground check that joker and tear at it with your pointy teeth. But save all the green stuff for the hippies." --The Possum Man


Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7086875
12/13/20 01:05 AM
12/13/20 01:05 AM
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Alaska, USA
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A few other catches this season and a shot of the wolverine throat patch. She was a 22lb female so about average the teeth look young. I had forgotten how much i don't like skinning those feet., but they are done now.
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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7086882
12/13/20 01:11 AM
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Wasilla AK
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That is a sweet bucket set up smile Congrats on the fur and thanks for sharing!

Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7087215
12/13/20 10:37 AM
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Bonner County, Idaho
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Nice catches there, especially on the gulo. Sure is a purdy marten as well. Excellent work.


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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: white17] #7087267
12/13/20 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by white17
I have had them double back in a day or two.

But it is my experience that wolverines are creatures of habit. They use the same travel routes through the neighborhood for generations. I use the same spots year after year with reasonable success.

If you follow them long enough you will see where they venture a few feet off their trail to squirt some stinkum on a low shrub sticking through the snow. I am convinced that others can smell that for years and refresh it from time to time. I think that is why the same route gets used for succeeding generations.

SO.......if you have caught one or seen tracks at a certain spot....... set it... whether there are fresh tracks or not. I also set at every beaver house on my line whether it's dead or alive


This is exactly why some locations will be visited every year, by multiple wolverine. I have not found any marking posts or trees as described. If we had more stable snow throughout winter they would probably be found very near what I call my annual cubbies.


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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7090785
12/15/20 01:09 PM
12/15/20 01:09 PM
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Anchorage, Alaska
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Nice catches!

Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday [Re: trapperbobs] #7101097
12/22/20 07:43 PM
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Alaska Northwestern
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Awesome! Hopefully we will get snow soon, just a little bit of snow earlier this month. Most of it blew away. Was excited for the storm that was suppose to be happening now, but it just put down less than an inch and most have blown away again. Hope to set out a few traps soon

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