Re: 2021 Mn Marten/Fisher Season
[Re: K9man]
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01/14/22 09:21 PM
01/14/22 09:21 PM
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Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 480 Baudette MN
FriarTuck
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 480
Baudette MN
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Interesting year. I drove by the sets that I pulled and not a single track. These were all sets that were super active up to the time to set the traps! I am starting to wonder if bobcats avoid frozen meat or something. I felt like I had it down pat until the season was shifted. I understand the move, I just need to relearn I guess. Yesterday I had a crazy event. I went to the cubbies by the cabin and this guy was waiting for me. He was standing right in the opening just looking at me. My first thought was that he somehow fired the alpha and got himself caught. When I approached he ran back deeper into the cubby. Then when I was making sure everything was ready to go trap wise I was bent over right in the opening, and the marten was in the back of the cubby snorting and growling at me the whole time. I guess he has claimed ownership of it!
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Re: 2021 Mn Marten/Fisher Season
[Re: K9man]
#7463663
01/17/22 03:01 PM
01/17/22 03:01 PM
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Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 5,515 West Central MN
20scout
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trapper
Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 5,515
West Central MN
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Noticed the same thing around here the past few weeks. I pulled everything right after that first big snowfall but went out last week to look things over. About the only tracks are birds and deer
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: 2021 Mn Marten/Fisher Season
[Re: FriarTuck]
#7464871
01/18/22 04:16 PM
01/18/22 04:16 PM
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 3,470 MN
walleye101
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 3,470
MN
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Interesting year. I drove by the sets that I pulled and not a single track. These were all sets that were super active up to the time to set the traps! I am starting to wonder if bobcats avoid frozen meat or something. I felt like I had it down pat until the season was shifted. I understand the move, I just need to relearn I guess.
The move, as I understand it, was to reduce conflicts between dogs and bobcat sets. Maybe the grouse hunters have benefited some, but here is what I have observed. The late season and deep snow has made a lot of remote locations inaccessible. About 1/2 my old locations on private land, accessed by field road or pasture, are out. The less used logging roads are closed, concentrating more of the trapping activity near the main roads. Dog owners still like to exercise dogs in winter and tend to do it on less traveled but plowed township or forest roads. These are the same roads trappers are using to access public lands.
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