Fishers, sent here from the devil!

[JoeJ]

I got my Fisher lure on Monday, set the traps on Tuesday and yesterday one dead devil cat.

Monday and Tuesday I went through the woods and fixed numerous fisher chews and deer chews to get the vacuum from 19" to 26". Thursday morning, the vacuum was 20". Just could get the time to find the problems on Thursday. First thing Friday morning I found my problem causer dead and started to repair it's 2 day rampage. The fisher had chewed 6 drops and a bunch of laterals. I had to repair 16 chews besides the 6 drops.
The vacuum went back up to 26".

The fisher lure was a good $24.00 investment.

Joe

[blissville maples]

Interesting. I have major problems with coyotes. An occasional porcupine, what does this damage look like? Bunches of small canine teeth holes, or all beavered up??

[JoeJ]

The fisher cat damage looks like a bite by a house cat. The holes are very small but at 26-27" those little holes leak and drop the overall vacuum level. Sometimes I will find only one hole, sometimes 4 holes, sometimes 6' of lateral full of holes and then when the fisher is really energetic, it will chew a drop completely.

Out of the 16 repairs on Friday, I found mostly of one or two hole bites, a couple 4 hole bites and a 6' section bit every few inches.

Joe

[Old County Road]

JoeJ - do you mind sharing the name and source of the fisher lure?

[eagle lake sugar]

My culprit is a big male fisher, he has chewed holes in my mainline before, but lately it's been tees. He chewed four tees in one group of trees and completely destroyed them.

[JoeJ]

I bought the lure from the "Snare Shop" in Iowa. (712-822-5780) It is called "Martin and Fisher" call lure from Carmen's Superior Animal Lures. Pretty awful smelling stuff. It was double plastic bag sealed with a heat sealed plastic wrap around the cap and it still smelled after I opened the first sealed plastic bag. Even worse if you get any on your hands. But in my opinion extremely effective. Fished in the trap within 3 days. The last fisher I caught in July took me about 3 weeks and 12 cans of sardines.

Joe

[OneLegJohn]

My son's middle name is Fisher. Yeah, he's a tough sucker.