Texas is a big state, with a lot of different physical geography. I suspect that yotes from the high plains and the southwest desert are generally like other southern half of the Inter-Mountain West. For as much as I appreciate Savell's coyote catching adventures, those parts of Texas isn't near-sea level always humid piney woods. 600 to 800 miles west or northwest and a couple thousand or more feet higher elevation has some impact...

Nice cat bigbuck

Since there doesn't seem to be many mink pics.

Nice pictures good to see those little water wolves,wish we had more around here,the number's have been really down the last 20 years along with the muskrats.Some years you could trap 50 to 100,back in the days you could get many in a day no problem,this year while duck hunting out of Willow creek there was about 15 houses so a guy could have trap 30 to 50 this year.Our bobcat,marten and fisher season opens next saturday,going to run a couple of sets hope to post a picture or two of a cat or two along with a marten,keep posting pictures good luck to all the trapper's that have a line out.

I set this little overflow pond yesterday at our nearby village treatment plant.
Crazy rats are building push-ups above their runs out of moss and fist sized rocks. I have never seem the utilize rocks like this.

Caught and released my 7th red fox of the week. A real big male.they're beating the yotes to the sets.

Set yesterday...

Set today...

Final result...

Must not have been waiting too terribly long for me this morning.

This time of year I'm usually water trapping numbers, but this year I went north with some friends and got my first marten and fisher. They've been trying to get me to go for years. Glad I did. We only have a ten day season, but I got it done. Plus, caught a few beaver, seen some sweet country, played a lot of cards and drank a decent amount of beer!

Sorry about the shadow but I was in a hurry this morning.love the Grey's.

That is awesome. I think I am hoping to go next year. Just didn't plan well for this year.

I suspect that about 98% of Americans, maybe even more, would mis-identify that big fisher. Either they would have no clue at all, call it a fox, or maybe on the outside a wolverine.

And yet the return of fisher to the forests of northern-eastern CONUS is a species success story. One of many. And almost none of them are talked about, especially 1) the resilience of many wildlife species, and 2) good wildlife management. No, rather dwell on the half empty side of the glass because it gives certain advocacy groups more political power and money. Give the WWF a hundred bucks and you can help save the polar bears. And who do you think political administrations such as Sniffy's and his minions (or his handlers?) listen to when it comes to wildlife trends, WWF people or state game managers...? What crap...