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This years marten pics #7135496
01/13/21 09:41 PM
01/13/21 09:41 PM
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Eagle River, AK
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Having best marten year ever. Wish prices were good. They still pay for gas..
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Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7135511
01/13/21 09:47 PM
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Eagle River, AK
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Caught my first pale ever last week..
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Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7135543
01/13/21 09:58 PM
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NWT
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Some nice marten! And this is the smallest wolverine I’ve seen yet...jk


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Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7135722
01/13/21 11:06 PM
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Fairbanks Alaska
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Nice work on the marten


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Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7136049
01/14/21 02:17 AM
01/14/21 02:17 AM
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Nice. Keep it up. Is this the unit 13 area, your cabin?

Re: This years marten pics [Re: martentrapper] #7136373
01/14/21 11:23 AM
01/14/21 11:23 AM
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Eagle River, AK
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Yes martentrapper, up my way in unit 13. Seeing sign were I’ve never seen sign and where I usually see sign I’m seeing LOTS of sign. We had the best blue berry season ever last year. That, and a lot warmer winter..

Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7136379
01/14/21 11:30 AM
01/14/21 11:30 AM
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Montana ,Rocky Mtns.
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Nice shots, those.

It is interesting to me how much they do resemble wolverine at the right angle, such as the second photo down. Love the necklace bling.

Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7136427
01/14/21 12:12 PM
01/14/21 12:12 PM
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Northern Maine
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Nice catches.


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Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7137059
01/14/21 09:19 PM
01/14/21 09:19 PM
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Anchorage, Alaska
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Nice variety of colors on your marten! I am trapping due West of you and have not seen a single track and very little sign of voles etc.

Re: This years marten pics [Re: broncoformudv] #7137195
01/14/21 10:05 PM
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Eagle River, AK
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Originally Posted by broncoformudv
Nice variety of colors on your marten! I am trapping due West of you and have not seen a single track and very little sign of voles etc.


Yeah I know where you are. You’ll find your marten pockets, just takes time in this area. Concentrate on saddles. By this I don’t necessarily mean a saddle between two hillsides, although those are also places to scope out, but saddles of land between groups of thick spruce out on the flats. They may look barren, but marten in our area consists of mostly large dark males and they are always traveling in these saddles. Food source and birds of prey are the biggest obstacles in our area for marten. I have explored many miles of perfect elevation and marten country with no luck. Just gotta stumble into them. Good luck!

Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7137211
01/14/21 10:15 PM
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Here is one of my marten saddle pockets. It’s also a 5 year old burn that is only getting better by the year. You should see all the fox tracks jumping and prouncing chasing mice..
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Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7137247
01/14/21 10:36 PM
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Eagle River, AK
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Here I am going thru a flat, similar to your country. Look ahead and you can see a saddle between 2 groups of trees. Another good spot..
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Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7137469
01/15/21 02:03 AM
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Might as well catch some fox too!

Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7137492
01/15/21 02:34 AM
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Wasilla AK
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Some good looking fur and pretty country!

Re: This years marten pics [Re: martentrapper] #7137527
01/15/21 04:45 AM
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Originally Posted by martentrapper
Might as well catch some fox too!

I catch enough fox in accidental catches. Silvers and quite a few cross fox caught in wolf [Linked Image]
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sets like this one, buckets and coyote sets. Even catch a couple in un covered trap lynx cubby’s..
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Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7140589
01/17/21 12:14 AM
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Eagle River, AK
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Caught a cross and cat today
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Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7144057
01/19/21 12:53 AM
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Thanks for sharing

Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7144638
01/19/21 01:10 PM
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Anchorage, Alaska
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Nice catches!

Re: This years marten pics [Re: Trailblazersteve] #7145284
01/19/21 08:55 PM
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Is that a black fox?

I found this on the Alaska F&G site:

The silver and black phases are similar. However, the black does not have the silver-tipped guard hairs characteristic of the silver fox. The occurrence of black-silver phase appears to increase toward the north and the northwest of Alaska. However, even where most abundant, it comprises less than two percent of the population.

Re: This years marten pics [Re: Slick Pan] #7145425
01/19/21 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Slick Pan
Is that a black fox?

I found this on the Alaska F&G site:

The silver and black phases are similar. However, the black does not have the silver-tipped guard hairs characteristic of the silver fox. The occurrence of black-silver phase appears to increase toward the north and the northwest of Alaska. However, even where most abundant, it comprises less than two percent of the population.


It is definitely a silver fox. Face and back have beautiful silver hair. One of the nicest silver fox I have ever seen. Not a flaw with him. Been offered $600 but he’s still hanging on my wall..

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