Awesome

Sometimes the rate is high. Five years ago, with only thirty some boxes out on a fresh snow, I had seven fisher refusals on one check. When checking 70-80 sets with snow I expect one or two refusals every check. We like to tell ourselves that the animal will return and we'll have it the next check.

Me and a friend both noticed something this year. We had a big snow and the boxes were completely covered with snow. Fishers & marten were all over and all around the boxes but none of them dug into the entrance. Weasels did tunnel in.

BTW, a few years ago I put trail cameras on foothold sets for marten & fishers. I stopped doing it because the photos showed at least two or three animal visits to the set where the animal was not caught for every catch.

2 or 3 visits = 1 catch

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Thanks for the reply, I tried wood and barkers for mink, it was tough for me to get large numbers of mink to commit to a baited cubby so don’t know what worked better. Do you get mink in your setup? When I was in Marten country I would get Marten in mink sets. Wasn’t using any cubbies then, did the leaning pole to get Marten.

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Thank You