Nice catches Rick! Glad to see someone finally connect!

Got about 3" of fluff this morning and not much sign of anything moving. Did find fisher tracks along the river but it never came close to my fisher box. I wasn't entirely skunked today as the last snare I checked held this nice red.

Just got back from the neighbor's place,fresh marten tracks and maybe snowed in cat track mixed in with the deer tracks.That patch of woods would always produce a fisher ten plus years ago,we will see what happens wishing for a fisher for him,but guessing he'll catch his 2nd marten.Great looking fox Tim,heavy and decent color as well,hope we start seeing a few cats being caught on here,Have a great night everyone I think I'm going to take in a HS hockey game in this evening.

So far 4 days without seeing a single fresh cat track, so we are definitely getting closer! The young men caught another big male marten to keep them excited.

Nice work guys, loving the fur pics, checked all the traps today and only had one marten. Very few track in the new snow we got this morning/afternoon 4”-10” depending on where you were. Pulled my last otter trap as it was completely buried under snow.

I’m not feeling very confident the line my boy and I are running is going to produce (never has but gotta try) it’s more fisher territory so hopefully one of them will be waiting for us tomorrow.

Great pictures,went to the hockey game the boys looked sloppy they won 3-0 they beat some really good teams this year,but theyll have to play better than last night to keep their winning streak going 8-0 for now.Hope that bobcat came back last night he's been MIA since season opened he's due back soon.Have a great day everyone and good luck on your traplines.

4th night the bobcat has'nt returned he'll be back tonight or tomorrow night I bet.Picked up a real ugly darker coyote today,hope to see some nice catch pictures later this evening.

Set one more Jake in a blind set today originally I made it for a snare it’s about 25’from the cubby

Was out this evening. Absolutely no fresh sign anywhere. Hopefully things move in the next couple of days. Have Friday off so want to spend sometime in the woods between beaver put ups.

Today was a pretty boring day on the line if there is such a thing. No fur in the traps other than a shrew in a weasel box. We had two refusals (one marten and one mink) must not have wanted to climb the tree. I can only hope the marten was a female then our system would be working. Not sure why the mink refused, they climb trees in Canada all the time. We pulled one whole line and only left seven easy to get to sets out in case dad has to pull alone after we leave.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow!

My sons birthday is today and is always extra special since it’s at trap camp!

Good ole cake compliments of DQ

Rick, I’m ready for your cat to show back up, hopefully tonight!

Nice,congrats on your daughters limit,happy birthday Jacob.Me to on the cat return I need to break in those Jake's,The marten thawed out so I put up the marten and bobcat from yesterday,yearling went 33" looks like a little fur ball.I will donate that to the MTA Tanned Fur Project along with the marten and some coyotes.Have a great night everyone.

Happy Birthday Jacob! What a great way to spend a birthday!
Great catch pictures MOTR! Bet it'll take a month of Sundays to get that grin of your daughters face!
Caught another coyote in a snare today and seen the tracks of another close by. Might have been a sibling and hope it's waiting got me tomorrow in another snare I have close by. Found fresh fisher tacks by the river thus morning so set up a fisher box under a bridge. Would be nice to close out my season with two, then I can work
my at cat.

Rick/Tim Jacob says thanks.

Tim yote looks heavy

Good luck on today’s checks!

My gut feeling that the cat would return last night was WRONG,another 1.5" of snow last night.Never saw a fresh track this morning,but it was still snowing at 7:30am so there was'nt much time for them to make fresh tracks before I got around.Tomorrow is another day,maybe it will be a Christmas bobcat this year.3 more nights to get one more Marten out of the 3 sets that are out.

Well we just checked our seven sets and had nothing. Going to make two more sets today in a new area.

The lack of squirrels and grouse has me concerned. Hare population is way down too. I guess it never really clicked when I wasn’t hearing red squirrels barking at me while I was setting traps. Usually we see hundreds of squirrels or their piles of chewed up cones but this year nothing. I wonder if they died from disease?

K9man, I spent most of the evening picking burrs out of that butt sniffer and it payed off as he looks good on the boards! Sad to think he may only be worth $15-$20 so will probably send him in to get tanned or donate him to MTA's tanned fur program along with some other furs I have for them. I scored my second and final fisher today and of coarse started seeing all sorts of fisher sign while pulling up all my fisher traps.

Rick, I'm surprised as you for not connecting with that cat yet! As much action you've had earlier I as sure you would have connected by now but then that's trapping for you!

Think I may have found some cat tracks but could never find a clear track to make a positive ID. Was going to make a few cat sets on another piece of property but when I stopped in to touch base with the LO discovered the place had been sold! Nice people but they declined me permission this year since they had just moved in. Had a nice chat with them, gave the dog and their kids a treat (not the same treats mind you) and left them my card. I trap pocket gophers on that farm and offered to continue to do so in hopes of granting permission next year.

As regular as he was before season I thought within 3 days I'd have him,but like you said that's trapping and cats are cats.You cant catch them when they don't come back,he knows there food there he'll be back when he's ready,maybe he wants to be a Christmas cat????????????It's close to home so he will get a ride in the Chevy this year or next year lol.The other location where you got your cat last year,still nothing,but I'm keeping bait there it's a matter of time there too.No traps there yet,that might be a next year cat I'm thinking.

The big bugger finally come back through!!

It took him quite a while.

Yay!! Congrats on a nice looking fisher!