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PA fisher season #8289769
12/21/24 05:59 PM
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Claypool313 Offline OP
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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.

Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289771
12/21/24 06:00 PM
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Good luck


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Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289772
12/21/24 06:01 PM
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Not me, I am a woose afraid of the cold, but wait till next week, will set some then......jk


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Re: PA fisher season [Re: jk] #8289792
12/21/24 06:18 PM
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I had plans to, but my mother is not doing well so I spent the day with her
Maybe Tuesday

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

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

Good luck claypool

Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289807
12/21/24 06:28 PM
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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.

Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289815
12/21/24 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Claypool313
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

Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289853
12/21/24 07:20 PM
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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.

Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289854
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Would love to put leaning pole 220 sets in!

Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289856
12/21/24 07:23 PM
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Your npt allowed conibears on the ground?


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Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289862
12/21/24 07:26 PM
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i'd just like a season in 1a! we are stocking ohio with them! gc says no habitat here for them! there everywhere!


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Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289863
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Fisher can adapt to all terrains from forests to farmland and anything in between.


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Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289872
12/21/24 07:34 PM
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Leaning pole ...45 degree angle or steeper ..and a 160 is my go to

Fisher set up


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Re: PA fisher season [Re: Nessmuck] #8289887
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Originally Posted by Nessmuck
Leaning pole ...45 degree angle or steeper ..and a 160 is my go to

Fisher set up


If only. Not in Pa.

Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289889
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My favorite fisher set but with either 120,155,or 160.....SADLY NO LONGER LEGAL
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Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289905
12/21/24 08:06 PM
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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

Re: PA fisher season [Re: wetdog] #8289907
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Originally Posted by wetdog
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.


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Re: PA fisher season [Re: Claypool313] #8289914
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And they have to be set for mink or muskrat only


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Re: PA fisher season [Re: jk] #8289920
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Originally Posted by jk
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?


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Re: PA fisher season [Re: wetdog] #8289925
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Can't you put a chunk of muskrat in the box for mink in an area where there is fisher?

Re: PA fisher season [Re: jk] #8289939
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Originally Posted by jk
And they have to be set for mink or muskrat only

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

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