Fisher problems

[tonka]

Today while tapping, I came across 6 drops and 4 lateral lines that were all chewed up and the laterals were chewed all the way through. I've come to the conclusion that Fishers are doing the damage, you folks in the new England and upper peninsula run into fisher doing damage? I like seeing Fisher out in the bush because squirrels are their top pray and it show since I have slim to none damage from squirrels.

[Buddy 58]

yes , Found large holes in mainline , and talked to a few others that had the same thing , we all think its fisher doing it .

[JoeJ]

I have had fisher problems at my home woods for 7 or 8 years. First year the fisher chewed 250 -300 drops. Took me 2 years to trap it. 2 year later another one moved in. The new guy chews only 50-60 a year and is not attracted does by traps. I will get it some time.

I have been taping at my remote woods with 2,300 taps for 6 years and a fisher chewed tubing rolls in a pile as we started to set up the woods. Not a good sign. That one did a lot of damage over the years (hundreds of drops a year and lots of laterals) and I finally got it in Jan 2018. Then a new one moved in this summer. Have not gotten it yet. Just keep setting the traps.

Joe

[Chickenman]

If you don't trap and don't know anyone who does, send me a PM and I will try to get someone who does in contact with you from another forum I belong to. Fishers are very destructive little buggers and are tremendous killing machines.

[jimsudz]

[QUOTE=JoeJ;367411]I have had fisher problems at my home woods for 7 or 8 years. First year the fisher chewed 250 -300 drops. Took me 2 years to trap it. 2 year later another one moved in. The new guy chews only 50-60 a year and is not attracted does by traps. I will get it some time.

I have been taping at my remote woods with 2,300 taps for 6 years and a fisher chewed tubing rolls in a pile as we started to set up the woods. Not a good sign. That one did a lot of damage over the years (hundreds of drops a year and lots of laterals) and I finally got it in Jan 2018. Then a new one moved in this summer. Have not gotten it yet. Just keep setting the traps.

Joe[/QUOTEBeautiful , DEC just interduced fisher into our area about 3-4 years ago.

[tonka]

I'm planning on trapping the a-hole. I've trapped for several years and I have taken a few fisher. The crappy part is in minnesota the Fisher season starts up the weekend after Thanksgiving and it runs for less then a week so the window is a very small window to kill the bugger. I do know why they are hanging out in the bush so much, I found a dead deer amongst my tubing that they have been chewing on, all the damage has happened in the past 2 months. Think I'm going to hook on to it with the atv and drag it out and hope that helps. Not liking all your guys encounters with fisher, hope I don't have to deal with that amount of damage in the coming years.

[Cedar Eater]

I'm planning on trapping the a-hole. I've trapped for several years and I have taken a few fisher. The crappy part is in minnesota the Fisher season starts up the weekend after Thanksgiving and it runs for less then a week so the window is a very small window to kill the bugger. I do know why they are hanging out in the bush so much, I found a dead deer amongst my tubing that they have been chewing on, all the damage has happened in the past 2 months. Think I'm going to hook on to it with the atv and drag it out and hope that helps. Not liking all your guys encounters with fisher, hope I don't have to deal with that amount of damage in the coming years.

If I was you, I would report the situation to the DNR and ask for permission to trap it out of season. They can do that for animals causing property damage.

[Tap&sap]

Sounds like the culprit. We have running water to our hunting camp which comes from the side of a mountain using a 1 inch pvc line. One year the line had all kinds of holes from something chewing it. We set a trap for it in the fall, and we caught a big fisher. We still had a chunk of the line left at camp that had been chewed, and the fisher's teeth fit the holes perfectly.

[amasonry]

here in nh I have a mating pair in my bush. never seen any damage from them. they take turns taking gray squirrels of my neighbors bird feeder.

[antelope76]

I had a nice set of fisher tracks run through an area I have buckets hung. Don't have to worry about him eating aluminum!

Cool to see the tracks still.

[tonka]

I have thought of getting a hold of the dnr about it but I feel it's a lost cause. We along with a few othe farmers around here have 100+ deer at each loacation eating our feed through out the winter, we have contacted the dnr about it along with other farmers and all they tell us is put up a fence around our feed lot and they'll cover half the expense, won't work too well when we wrap all our 3,000+ hay bails, our silage bags alone covers an acre of land.