Photo Phriday 18
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10/15/21 08:17 AM
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Gulo
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I periodically read about or see photos of trappers in other parts of the country catching huge numbers of weasels. I catch a handful each year, mostly as incidentals in my marten and mink 120 boxes. I've tried to catch both long-tails and short-tails in the boxes with rat traps or small footholds, and I've tried every imaginable bait and lure combination. I simply can't catch numbers, even with hundreds of trapnights on good sign. I talked with other intermountain trappers that tell me the same thing. Anyway, here's a few weasel pictures. Summer long-tailed weasel Long-tailed weasel caught in BG. The single short-tailed weasel I've caught in a rat trap box with hundreds of trapnights. Jack
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
[Re: Gulo]
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10/15/21 09:17 AM
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Jack a now passed trapper in Minn would catch 100 plus weasels every year. I believe his name was Jack Pine Savage ????? Not sure if someone knows who im talking about correct me.
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
[Re: Gulo]
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10/15/21 09:56 AM
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MJM
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I see weasel sign of all three types here. The shot tail seems to be the most common in my yard. When ever I set boxes for them, I pretty good luck catching them. I have never tried to take any number. I have seen all three types in the yard. I checked this box on the way out across the road going bird hunting. On the way home the dog wanted to run up and check the box which we had checked a couple hours earlier. I called him back a couple time and he kept trying to get up to the box. I knew I had something before I got there, by the way he acted. After I dispatched it and when I was resetting the trap the dog grabbed him and ran for the house. He was sitting on the porch with him when I got there.
Last edited by MJM; 10/15/21 10:02 AM.
"Not Really, Not Really" Mark J Monti "MJM you're a jerk."
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
[Re: Northof50]
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10/15/21 06:16 PM
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Gulo
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My average trap nights is about 30 per box most years for catches.
Using your catch per trapnight, I should have taken ~20 weasels (600 trapnights divided by 30). As stated earlier, I got 1. Wife and I have put much effort into this, and we'll try again when weasel numbers are once again apparently high. It just makes no sense, but others in Idaho have also experienced very poor results. Go figure... Jack
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
[Re: Gulo]
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10/15/21 06:29 PM
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I have good luck with Lenon's Weasel Super All Call. Have you tried it Jack? I think feathers or fur in the box are a plus too.
"Not Really, Not Really" Mark J Monti "MJM you're a jerk."
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
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10/15/21 06:50 PM
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Gulo
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I have good luck with Lenon's Weasel Super All Call. Have you tried it Jack? I think feathers or fur in the box are a plus too. Yes Mark, I've tried Lenon's Weasel All Call. Bait-wise, I've tried just about everything you might imagine, including jackrabbit, muskrat, beaver, deer mice (sometimes including fur). The year we really put the effort into this, we had extremely high weasel numbers, and they didn't seem to avoid the boxes. Tracks over top, and around the boxes constantly. Just wouldn't go in. I eventually took the fronts off the boxes so they didn't need to go through the hole. No difference. I swapped out the yellow-panned Victor rat traps for #1 longsprings. No difference. I thought strange that we always pick up a few incidentals in our marten boxes, but basically nothing in our weasel boxes.
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
[Re: Gulo]
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10/15/21 06:54 PM
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Back in the early seventies I couldn't keep them out of my southeast PA fox traps. I caught five long-tails at one set over a ten day period in a Victor #2 square jaw (the premier fox trap of the day pre-Northwoods). I haven't caught a weasel in forty years despite targeting them on a limited basis on my north central PA line.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
[Re: Gulo]
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10/15/21 07:00 PM
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Jack that does seem odd. Here they seem to go in the box if they find it pretty much. Our snow is often crusted to the point you can't hardly track a coyote across country, so seeing weasel sign is often a no go. If we get fresh snow there seems to be a fair number of them at times.
"Not Really, Not Really" Mark J Monti "MJM you're a jerk."
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
[Re: Gulo]
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10/15/21 08:03 PM
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Northof50
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I have good luck with Lenon's Weasel Super All Call. Have you tried it Jack? I think feathers or fur in the box are a plus too. Yes Mark, I've tried Lenon's Weasel All Call. Bait-wise, I've tried just about everything you might imagine, including jackrabbit, muskrat, beaver, deer mice (sometimes including fur). The year we really put the effort into this, we had extremely high weasel numbers, and they didn't seem to avoid the boxes. Tracks over top, and around the boxes constantly. Just wouldn't go in. I eventually took the fronts off the boxes so they didn't need to go through the hole. No difference. I swapped out the yellow-panned Victor rat traps for #1 longsprings. No difference. I thought strange that we always pick up a few incidentals in our marten boxes, but basically nothing in our weasel boxes. Looks like some of the boxes that 2Poor had the threads about, back hole is hardware cloth closed ? When I was having that problem I took a thumb tack and put a small piece of paper over the hole with a small pin hole in the center. doesn't take long for them to climb under the paper. When the collecting rules change with Hanti around we had to sterilize after every catch. Numbers really dropped then in catch effort in the Sherman live traps They are sure a wonderful collector of fleas and tick when dealing with them in the wintertime.
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
[Re: Gulo]
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10/15/21 08:26 PM
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In poor years I can pick up around 30 weasels as incidentals in marten and mink boxes. In good years over 100. Weasels here have a very small home range so every box will connect with at least a resident,not to mention all the juveniles dispersing in good years.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Photo Phriday 18
[Re: Gulo]
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10/15/21 08:48 PM
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On another note-in around 40 years trapping here,the first longtail weasel I ever caught was about 5 years ago.Since then I have caught 3 more in consecutive years including last year. Their northern range limit is obviously moving north with the warming climate. The ones I caught were all in mid to late november. Two were greybacks,and the other two still brownbacks,while the northern shorttails caught at the same time were pure white
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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