good read, I use duke traps, 160, for fisher, I put cables, on them with never losing one that I know of

Thanks to all for their responses. I filed them in my "If I get to trap them again" file. We moved to New Mexico, and now I have to learn how to catch bobcats, kit/swift fox and get better at coyotes!

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Keep the wires close together, on the bottom, about an inch apart. This allows a good chin rub/push.
Fireplug, Have a great fall season in the Adirondacks!

I catch most of mine in 160's and boxes but have caught a few in #2 coils.

A chunk of beaver is the best bait by far for fisher and marten.155's work great just bend the triggers wide apart and outwards over the bait.

ebsurveyor.Its all we have other than 160's or 220's and I hate them for marten and the exclusion cages we have to use them in compared to the 5 inch or smaller coninears.

Love them for Fisher before the exclusion cages but hated them for marten which are all in the same areas I trap.

The newer Bridger 155s are way better than the old ones. I have a few old ones that are 120 springs with small offset eyelets where one loop is bent one way and the other loop is bent the other way. Those ones aren't very good. The newer ones with 160 springs are great traps. I mostly run 155s I do have a dozen or more 120s with coni pans that I try to put in places I think I have a better chance on catch marten than a fisher. Those 120s still catch fisher its just not the right trap for them in my opinion.

Just picked up 2 dozen of the belislie 120's to try on marten and Fisher.Im also coming up with a 5 inch or smaller box design myself as I hate the hinged boxes.

At the spring rendevous in Brooks a prototype for a 160 size exclusion device without baffles and a 4 inch opening basically a oversized 120 size box was given to Shevenell Webb the fur biologist to take into consideration. The gentleman who presented it to her wants it tested in the wild for lynx not at the farm In gray. Who knows what will come of it but I'd love to be able to use 160s.

If that is where your conibear sits I don't care for how it can't snap forward when it goes off towards the Fisher or marten but away from them unless your sitting it back further then the picture shows.

Some trappers missed your post about moving but;
live goes on;
if you made those boxes you should consider that they will be deadly on spotted skunks and ring-tails where the real money is at selling

On my 160's for Fisher cubbies ..I run the triggah like this ..towards the bait..and on the top.

This helps let in the red squirrel and ermine ..without firing the trap.

When I want Fisher...I try to avoid non target critters

That trp needs to be run through the paint shop.

I used #155's, more versatile with NY regs. I used wooden boxes, flower pot sets an the Noonan wire cage. The wire cages are lightweight, easy to set up and worked well.



This Fisher never flinched, didn't even nocked the trap off the spike nail that stabilizes the trap.



I dipped me cages and the #155.



Get your wooden boxes done early and let them weather outside, makes them more stealthy.




Flower pot set are another lightweight option and take up less room in the truck.




I added swivels to my #155's and cabled them to the tree.
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I used mainly tainted chicken thighs, Gusto and Lenon's All Call Fisher lure.

Best of luck to you on your ADK trip! Hoping to see great pics posted on Tman!

Sure wish them boxes above were legal here in Maine