I put a trap and bait in the demo set I made a few days ago.
Connected today.
Juvenile male.




Two tone tail on that one.Dk brown on top bright orange on bottom.

Very nice! Will have to keep a tally as to how many you catch at that set!

Chris

Wow. Look at all that colour. What a treat to see that swinging through the trees in winter !

Nice set and even better that it connects. Your tutorials are great. Thank you for posting about different furbearers.

Very pretty marten. Some day I will have to get one to make a pouch from. Can't trap them here in WI.

Cool deal Boco.

great job beautiful marten

I will give you this, your trapping posts are worth reading. Good job and congrats.

By the way, your tanning thread was great. I did a few up and it worked great. Thank you.

Verification of my assesment on age of the marten.



Juvenile.

Juveniles come already skinned, or what?

Nice set up , and catch. Interested in why on a pole away from the tree.
How it doesn't tip downward over time .
2-3 nails for support ?

See those two temporal muscles on the top of the skull?
On a male marten they are divided by a strip of bone when they are under a year old.
As they age the temporal muscles on the top of the head grow together.if they touch along the top of the head that marten is not a juvenile.

Marten trappers use data on sex and age ratios in their harvest to tell them when to quit trapping so as not to harm the line.
juveniles and adult males are the target-Marten trappers managing the resource on an RTL avoid the harvest adult female marten as much as possible.
When the ratio in your catch drops below 4 juvenile and or adult male marten to each adult female it is time to stop trapping.
Some years there are a lot of juvenile marten in the harvest some years not so many.

Would like to catch a marten. There isn't any in this area. Would have to travel a few hours north to get into them.

Check out my demo - marten set thread-shows how to construct the set.

Great threads lately Boco. You are a bastion of good info.

Congratulations

Very Nice!!!

Demo set strikes again.
Another juvenile male.

Is catching the bait by design?

He likely had a bite on it when he triggered the trap.