Anyone get sets out today?

Put a few out at my property in 1b. No tracks. Lots of grey and red fox tracks so i set for them in hopes a fisher lobs through before it gets warm next week.

Good luck

Not me, I am a woose afraid of the cold, but wait till next week, will set some then......jk

I had plans to, but my mother is not doing well so I spent the day with her
Maybe Tuesday


The cold keeps the coon and possums out of your sets when it's frigid out

Good luck claypool

Hardest part it seems is bedding well while trying to keep then working when the ground is warm but below freezing temps. At least for me anyway.

Salt is my answer to that problem
Just watch out for the pookie's

Ruin't myself today getting sets in. Lots of walk in sets. Forgot how much I hate making sets in the mountains here. Every swing hits a dang rock, get bed in and try to drive stake and hit solid rock. Move set, can't get bed in cause hit softball size rock to dig out of bed. Lather, rinse, repeat. other spots it was roots stopping stakes or in the bed. Could have got 3x as many sets in out in the fields. No fisher or cat sign in the day old snow, but like you lots of fox sign. No coyote sign either.

Would love to put leaning pole 220 sets in!

Your npt allowed conibears on the ground?

i'd just like a season in 1a! we are stocking ohio with them! gc says no habitat here for them! there everywhere!

Fisher can adapt to all terrains from forests to farmland and anything in between.

Leaning pole ...45 degree angle or steeper ..and a 160 is my go to

Fisher set up

If only. Not in Pa.

My favorite fisher set but with either 120,155,or 160.....SADLY NO LONGER LEGAL

Here in PA body grips have to be in a box with the trap recessed 7" to the trigger
And the opening can be no larger than 50 square inches
And a 160 or smaller, if I remember correctly
I use 1.75 c/s

I sure wished those were the rules here in Maine.

And they have to be set for mink or muskrat only

I thought you was allowed to use conibears for bobcat in boxes on the ground?

Can't you put a chunk of muskrat in the box for mink in an area where there is fisher?

A spring on the side of a ridge or mountain is a waterway

Ok....then wire that box to a leaning pole ..5 feet of the ground ...guarded with a 160... Near a stream.

Killah Fisher set...baited with a beaver hind 1/4 and some pure quill on a rag

Above the set

I got 11 sets out in my go to fisher spots.

What's your limit ..down there ??

1

No fisher or even tracks yet. Unfortunately didnt connect on any fox either. That was a bummer since saw no less than 3 or 4 fresh tracks, some near my sets. So i put out 2 more in spots that had activity two nights in a row.

Tomorrow? Maybe. Since i picked that day to devote to annual sausage making.

With. Limit of just (1)....and 11 sets out...

And say you have 3 fisher in 160's on your next check...

Does Fish & Game take the extras ???

Yes Sir

That's why most trappers use footholds Nessy

I’ve caught two fisher in conibears here in Pa. One was in a cubby box, with a 160. It was set along a creek, for coon. It was fisher season also.

The other, I’m still scratching my head over it. Caught it in a 330 , in a large creek.. It was guarding a castor mound for beaver. It went through the trap from the land side. Fortunately, it was also caught in the overlapping fisher- beaver season.

Update. After some disappointing nights of fresh tracks in the new powder snow, i connected this morning.

Congratulations Claypool, it looks like a nice. That would be a nice Christmas present.

Nice!

Thanks for the pic flip. I was in a hurry to go out and put him up. Ended up catching in a bridger 1.65 set in front of a walk through box baited with a muskrat hind and a little gusto inside and above the set. Had one go within 15 yards the night before and he never broke stride. Also narrowing missed one in a blind set same night. Removed most of my sets today to avoid another. This is north eastern crawford county. Filthy with them. Wish we could go to a bag limit so we could keep sets out.

Nice fisher.Congrats