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Overrun with weasels #7081196 12/09/20 02:27 PM 12/09/20 02:27 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan Spade OP trapper
Spade OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan	Couple days ago put out 31 mink boxes on banks of 2 streams about 3 mile each. Using muskrat and mink gland lure, yesterday 19, today 11 ermine. I use trip wire on all my conibears. Don't believe I have ever caught that many ermine ever. Really plugging up my mink sets, but the ermine are pretty little critters 24 years Army Medical Corps I only want to be known as: A great husband, a good trapper, and a great steward of the land.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7081319 12/09/20 04:34 PM 12/09/20 04:34 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 42,019 Northern Maine Bruce T trapper
Bruce T trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 42,019 Northern Maine	Lol....slot of ermine.Long tails or short tailed ermine? Nevada bound

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7081366 12/09/20 05:12 PM 12/09/20 05:12 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan Spade OP trapper
Spade OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan	Bruce: Most were long tail, but had several least weasels, no short tail yet, in fact I hope I'm done catching weasels. 24 years Army Medical Corps I only want to be known as: A great husband, a good trapper, and a great steward of the land.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7081385 12/09/20 05:33 PM 12/09/20 05:33 PM
Joined: Jan 2017 Posts: 10,155 Marion Kansas Y Yes sir "Callie's little brother"
Yes sir "Callie's little brother" Y Joined: Jan 2017 Posts: 10,155 Marion Kansas	Are u saving the glands? I'd buy them if you are.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7081400 12/09/20 05:50 PM 12/09/20 05:50 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan Spade OP trapper
Spade OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan	Yes sir: I'm gonna try, nicked one today, boy do those little guys stink. 24 years Army Medical Corps I only want to be known as: A great husband, a good trapper, and a great steward of the land.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7081613 12/09/20 07:43 PM 12/09/20 07:43 PM
Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 45,519 james bay frontierOnt. B Boco trapper
Boco trapper B Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 45,519 james bay frontierOnt.	When weasels are at their peak populations you can catch a lot of them.They are a small animal with small home ranges,they are everywhere when the carrying capacity is high. Have fun catching them.I love catching ermine weasels. Last edited by Boco; 12/09/20 07:45 PM. Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7081690 12/09/20 08:29 PM 12/09/20 08:29 PM
Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 68 Northeast Kingdom VT T TomInVT trapper
TomInVT trapper T Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 68 Northeast Kingdom VT	Wow! Sounds like an active couple of miles.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7081952 12/09/20 10:48 PM 12/09/20 10:48 PM
Joined: Apr 2019 Posts: 833 SD B Bison88 trapper
Bison88 trapper B Joined: Apr 2019 Posts: 833 SD	That sounds cool! Enjoy it while it lasts

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7081970 12/09/20 10:53 PM 12/09/20 10:53 PM
Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 2,293 PA L lumberjack391 trapper
lumberjack391 trapper L Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 2,293 PA	Probably worth as much as mink........

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7082206 12/10/20 02:18 AM 12/10/20 02:18 AM
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MsgRet Unregistered M	Those little critters are fun to catch. My oldest granddaughter and me trap them during her xmas vacation every year and have a blast.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7082289 12/10/20 07:51 AM 12/10/20 07:51 AM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 3,422 Pennsylvania H Hern trapper
Hern trapper H Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 3,422 Pennsylvania

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7082633 12/10/20 01:23 PM 12/10/20 01:23 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan Spade OP trapper
Spade OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan	Hern: Holy crap, now I'm going to start looking over my shoulder, more so than I do now. LOL 24 years Army Medical Corps I only want to be known as: A great husband, a good trapper, and a great steward of the land.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7082915 12/10/20 03:40 PM 12/10/20 03:40 PM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 574 Communist State Of New York Archeryguy trapper
Archeryguy trapper Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 574 Communist State Of New York	That weasel musk is deadly on mink and coyotes.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7083183 12/10/20 07:11 PM 12/10/20 07:11 PM
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 17,384 Central Ohio LT GREY trapper
LT GREY trapper Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 17,384 Central Ohio	Thing is a good erime is about the price of a mink nowadays !

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7083811 12/11/20 05:09 AM 12/11/20 05:09 AM
Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 42 AK Msturm trapper
Msturm trapper Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 42 AK	My mink line has been full of ermine as well. 13 so far, 2 minks. all my conibears are pans.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7083880 12/11/20 07:45 AM 12/11/20 07:45 AM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 3,422 Pennsylvania H Hern trapper
Hern trapper H Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 3,422 Pennsylvania	Originally Posted by Spade Hern: Holy crap, now I'm going to start looking over my shoulder, more so than I do now. LOL Someone once wrote- If Weasels were the size of Mt. Lions, it wouldn't be safe for man to go into the woods.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7084275 12/11/20 01:03 PM 12/11/20 01:03 PM
Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 45,519 james bay frontierOnt. B Boco trapper
Boco trapper B Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 45,519 james bay frontierOnt.	I read once where if a man could accomplish the same as a weasel killing a rabbit he would have to kill a 3,500lb beast with his bare hands-they are one tough little animal. Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7084299 12/11/20 01:25 PM 12/11/20 01:25 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan Spade OP trapper
Spade OP trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan	Told a story about--Snowshoe hares will actually freeze in their tracks and start screaming, waiting to die, if they spot a weasel on their tracks. Don't know if its true or not, but it sounds feasible. Caught 1 this morning in a 160, thought for sure it would be cut in half, not even a mark inside the pelt, 24 years Army Medical Corps I only want to be known as: A great husband, a good trapper, and a great steward of the land.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7084390 12/11/20 02:47 PM 12/11/20 02:47 PM
Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 2,293 PA L lumberjack391 trapper
lumberjack391 trapper L Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 2,293 PA	I would say a 10 lb weasel would kill anything if it wanted to.

Re: Overrun with weasels [Re: Spade] #7085095 12/11/20 10:10 PM 12/11/20 10:10 PM
Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,409 WI B BvrRetriever trapper
BvrRetriever trapper B Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,409 WI	I’d start putting down weasel boxes and forget about the mink!

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