Wolverine are making a comeback here last decade or so.Bruce
The couple times I have seen wolverine tracks I pull all my sets in the vicinity until they move on.
Trappers that have caught incidentals in wolf snares are allowed to keep them for personal use only not allowed to sell since they are zero quotad on licence.
Native people here can intentionally take them for traditional use.
I would like to see them increase in this area so we can get a quota even if only one or two in the future.

Gotcha. Like you said, the early ones are easy to over scrape and get to the roots. Came close twice but I’d say it’s the best wolf I’ve got, not the biggest but really nice and no blemishes except the 2 toes missing on the one back foot.
There’s the odd wolverine a few hours north of me.

Good deal on the wolf!

Had a couple days snowstorm,it really got the fisher and marten active.
Checked my boxes this afternoon picked up a fisher at the cat cubby,2 snares on his neck,lights out.
Also got another nice blackcat fisher and 3 marten out of the 12 boxes.

Snowing again tonight,I will probably go again tomorrow.
Just waiting for my ski doo to come back from the shop to start making trail.Got a good foot of snow on the ground now.

Nice frozen catches

I was able to skin 1 fisher and one marten,the rest are hanging in the cold room until tomorrow.

Snow starting to pile up now.

Nice marten

Are you catching red squirrels in your sets this time of year or is that deeper into winter?

Only two red squirrels this year-they are as scarce as I have ever seen them.
A bunch of white spruce were killed off last couple years from the spruce bug worm,might have had something to do with the crash of the red squirrel.
They sprayed heavily to kill the bugworm last couple summers,so maybe the spraying affected the red squirrels,but I doubt it because there are still lots of flying squirrels

Good to see you finally got some snow! Good deal on the fur! How much you get for fisher? Never had the opportunity to chase them.

Fisher are fun to trap.

Been a while since I have read this posting. Just spent 30 minutes catching up. Thanks for sharing your line with us. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Safe and productive trails too.

Chris

Merry Christmas to you and yours Chris.

Fur from today.
Fisher marten and a couple weasels.




At 26 marten from the home line.

Fisher are around 100 bucks Cad HFT.for the big males,about 20 bucks less for the smaller females Primeness and clarity is what you want in a pelt for the auction.
I keep a few to make hats for people,fisher makes a really nice fur hat.
Fisher fur is a bit tricky to work with,hair gets longer and thicker from the head back.

Way to go.All frozen solid.

Fisher had 3 snares on him at the snare fence,lol.He wasnt going anywhere but froze.

Looking good Boco, fisher prices have definitely been on the rise

Good stuff! How long is your home line and how many boxes?
I finally got a marten, but there’s more sign and another warm up coming. Will have to close the wolf snares that I won’t be able to check every couple days, but I guess it could get the other critters out moving. I’ve got 3 coon sets all made up just for these warm spells, I’m sure he’ll come out if it goes up to +4.