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Marten Attractions #8221400
09/23/24 06:32 AM
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E.J. Kelley Offline OP
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If you are trapping for marten and dont have any beaver meat for bait, what do you use for youre next choice? Thanks!

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8221444
09/23/24 07:55 AM
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grouse > rabbit > duck > ... > squirrel > .... > salted fish > burnt moose hide > ... > dirty bait-soaked glove

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8221460
09/23/24 08:54 AM
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What Tatiana listed plus table scraps and fish scraps from processing.

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8221465
09/23/24 09:04 AM
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Blueberry jam, or any jam works. anis oil, paddle fish oil, old seal oil, sardines, fish sauce, and the list goes on. Just about anything will work. Sometimes something new, that the marten has never smelled before will attract them. good luck


Life is hard. It's even harder if your stupid!
Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8221528
09/23/24 11:09 AM
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E.J. Kelley Offline OP
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Thanks everyone!

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8221537
09/23/24 11:18 AM
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Fish has always worked great for me especially if it's a little green. Grouse and duck carcasses work good too with a dab of lure. I saw a guy using those little cans of cat food with a hole drilled through it to run the wire, not sure how successful he was with it.


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Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8221602
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Any good sized chunk of meat that creates lots of activity around the set will work.


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8221696
09/23/24 03:08 PM
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My first fisher was caught with a piece of squirrel hide that I tanned with the cheap orange bottle stuff. I just dabbed some marten lure in the fur. Just about anything should do. When my coworker had a line up north, all he used was fish guts in his marten sets.


Wind Blew, crap flew, out came the line crew
Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8221960
09/23/24 09:23 PM
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Have used suet successfully when out of beaver meat.

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8222090
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Great info everyone thanks much!

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8222099
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I've used ground squirrels, whole or halved, bobcat meat, cougar meat, deer and elk meat scraps and beef scraps from a butcher shop, and skinned marten carcasses. Never had any luck with raspberry or strawberry jam, but back when I tried that I had no other bait and I had never caught a marten, while I set on marten tracks I did not choose good areas (out of a lack of knowledge) and never seen tracks come back through those spots while I had traps set there.

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8222209
09/24/24 10:27 AM
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I use fish. last season I found out marten cant pass up bear meat


If you take care of the land the land will take care of you
Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8222243
09/24/24 11:28 AM
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Ryan, have you used bear meat for wolverines much?

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8222261
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yes. for wolves too. I found that after a fall bear hunt the wolves or wolverine would stick around until the carcass was gone so i started taking meat for bait.


If you take care of the land the land will take care of you
Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8222267
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Good to know. Thanks. Black and brown bears? Or one or the other.. I have some bear fat/scraps/bones for this year.

As for marten attractants I've just used ptarmigan wings/carcasses and some anise/berry/skunky lure.

But admittedly catch them in my 330s more often than not.

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Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8222307
09/24/24 01:46 PM
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Caught a marten on a chocolate chip cookie once.


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Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8222317
09/24/24 01:58 PM
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Fairbanks, Alaska
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My friend, the late Ben Hopson Jr, of Anaktuvuk Pass, in his never-ending (and sometimes futile...!) quest to try to drum into my brain some traditional ways to catch wolves in open country, introduced me to tainted grizzly fat as a premium wolf attractant.

Always experimenting, I tried it as well for marten and had some luck. I assume that black bear fat would also work.

Pete

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8222700
09/24/24 10:19 PM
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A piece of tainted bear fat the size of your thumb best marten bait I ever used.

Chocolate chip cookies never made it to be bait with me, What a waste


I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8223553
09/26/24 11:18 AM
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Seal oil and jam helped back when I was seriously trapping. A visual is a good addition.

Re: Marten Attractions [Re: E.J. Kelley] #8224555
09/28/24 09:19 AM
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Get on a set of marten tracks and follow them. They'll go to and investigate any and all leaning poles. It's a way (underneath the leaning pole) for them to get access beneath the snow. Just the leaning pole, with no bait, is an attractant.

Jack


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