Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday
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12/09/20 04:17 PM
12/09/20 04:17 PM
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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...
"...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
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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday
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12/09/20 08:01 PM
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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. .
"...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
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Re: Found hot wolverine sign Thursday
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12/13/20 10:37 AM
12/13/20 10:37 AM
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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
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12/13/20 11:23 AM
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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 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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