I have a load of fisher in my area and I'm hoping to get one during our short season. I think I'll be going with a cubby on ground or on a running pole with either a 120 or 155/160 in it. Best types of lure? I'm thinking slightly tainted meat and a gland lure. Any suggestions appreciated!

Around here you just have to make your best coyote set and stand back, you'll get one. Unfortunately we have a very short window to catch our limit of two. I like a box cubby with beaver for bait and skunky lure seems to work the best.

Thank you!

We have a 2 fisher limit as well; combined hunting and trapping.

Fresh beaver for me, but our season is earlier with warm weather. Throw a castor based lure in the back and a skunky one up high. Make sure you have strong traps that are cabled off and swiveled. Then go and collect your fisher!

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A fisher is not hard to catch as they are an opportunistic hunter/scavenger that prey on a wide variety of animals including hares, grouse, squirrels, birds and their eggs, berries, mice and voles and CARRION thus will respond to most baited and lured sets. Venison, moose and beaver are excellent bait for them with beaver being my preference. You just need to be on location and have PATIENCE as they may take several weeks to complete their circuit. The general set use for fisher is an elevated baited box set:

Though setting on sign is often a advisable tactic if your State does offer a season long enough to wait out long circuit traveling animals putting sets where a fisher has been(fresh tracks) won't likely be out long enough for a return visit. I have much better success setting ahead of them in habitat I know fisher travel and catch them coming thru.

Like stated above, getting in front of them is good if you have some good habitat and know their behaviors well enough to head them off at the pass so to speak. Spread out your sets over a large area.

To share a brief trapline scenario. Snow can tell good stories and reveal some consistencies if you pay attention.

There was a fisher running along a small creek bottom that I ran along daily for a couple weeks doing some coyote work. I didn't know of its presence until we got our first snow. I had coyote sets not far from the stream but never caught a fisher.

When I cut some smaller fresh tracks, I was just getting out to open a pipe gate to access an out of the way livestock pasture in a hilly hardwood area. I knew what it was right away. The tracks too large and the stride was too long for a mink.

We kept snow cover from that point on, so I monitored for tracks. 11 days later I saw another set of fisher prints crossing around the gate corner at the same spot as I had seen them previously.

I stayed on my routine at that pasture for about 2-1/2 weeks. I logged the track sightings in my notebook. That fisher came thru the 3rd time 10 days later. I don't know if it was the same animal but likely it may have been. It followed that same route along that small stream and crossed under the same fallen tree / log each time thru.

I could have set a two-door cage trap and caught that fisher, I am sure. The same animal I am not sure, but the same travel route for another fisher or a mate quite possibly. Maybe a scent trail was established along that route.

You can wait for that fisher to come back thru if your season gives you enough time or get lucky and catch a different one following the same route in a shorter time frame.

X2 box cubby with a 160. Skunky lure and beaver for bait. Yep already release a huge male fisher out of a coyote set.

Resident fisher know their home range very well.Wherever they find a meal they will be guaranteed to return.They will not miss a good chunk of bait in their territory.
A good set option in late fall is setting the dispersal corridors that the juvenile fisher will use.Identify the core fisher habitat that sustain resident populations of fisher then identify tiimbered areas that connect them.
Best thing is to brush up on Fisher biology,and get to know your trapline well.