Having best marten year ever. Wish prices were good. They still pay for gas..

Caught my first pale ever last week..

Some nice marten! And this is the smallest wolverine I’ve seen yet...jk

Nice work on the marten

Nice. Keep it up. Is this the unit 13 area, your cabin?

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..

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.

Nice catches.

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!

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..

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..

Might as well catch some fox too!

Some good looking fur and pretty country!

I catch enough fox in accidental catches. Silvers and quite a few cross fox caught in wolf


sets like this one, buckets and coyote sets. Even catch a couple in un covered trap lynx cubby’s..

Caught a cross and cat today

Thanks for sharing

Nice catches!

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..