Yes mostly

Well that goes against what the experts say. NYDEC biologists say where there are high fisher populations there will be few marten. Looks like you are catching good numbers of both species.

They both are going to be where the food is.They both feed on the same things,small mammals, squirrels,mice,shrews,rabbits,certain mass crops like beach nuts,acorns,etc., carrion.

Nice catches.Thanks for sharing.

Great photos guys. Looks like you are proving the experts wrong.

Going to start making some boxes for the smaller 5 inch or under conibears.Just wish we wasn't limited to a 7 1/2 inch opening for the spring slots.I would just cut the slots from the front of the box back 19 inches.

Nice.Just to bad with the 7 1/2 inch spring slot limit I could make a straight box with no hinge in the box.Just simply cut your slots 19 inches from the front of the box.I was planning on making them that way untill I saw that rule.

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I would make this the only part making it 24 inches long.Cut the two spring slots back 19 inches and hinge the front board with the diamond shaped entrance hole on the front.

Surprised you're catching them in the same area. Wonder why Alaska doesn't have many Fisher.
What was your average on the Fisher and marten?

^^^^^^
Fisher are becoming more common in SE. Not common, just showing up more.

That's the style box I make as well I make them 24 or 25 with my spring slots at the back of the box. The only issues I have found is you need to use smaller bait so your trap doesnt hit your bait as it fires. Especially when it's frozen. The other problem is occasional bad catches on fisher where they are caught by the top of the head or snout. The boxes with the hinge in the middle make up for this but you will occasionally have a frozen fisher that you will have to take the entire box home to thaw out in order to remove it from the box. Every style has its disadvantages.

Once in awhile a Fisher will dine on one of my caught marten.I usually catch the Fisher on the next check.

Very nice!

I really used to enjoy trapping them when they were $150 a piece.

But, there aren't nearly as many around here as there used to be and I'm not killing them for today's prices.

Fisher everywhere now around here.

I stopped trapping Fisher when the prices dropped, Last Fisher I trapped brought 250.00. As much as I love Fisher & Fisher trapping, I just can't see trapping them for 30.00. I'd rather feed em & watch on trail cams & camera's. Mink & Fisher were always my passion to trap, just can't see killing them for these prices.
On top of that, New York State DEC changed the season to nov. 1-30, way to early to trap Fisher.

It was the exclusion cages and boxes that stopped me.

The animal rignts activist used the "endagered canadian lynx" to get the laws changed which now require exclusion cages on conibears among other limitations.

Sadly New York had a biologist that shortened the Adirondack Fisher season, but ON THE WRONG END ! Now that guy has left the DEC and we are stuck with the wrong season. Back when Mark Brown and Gary Parsons were managing Fisher we had biologists that knew what they were doing.

Not as many bobcat
Not as many bobcats as there used to be.Alot more lynx now.