did last winter thin your fisher population?

[Fenelon]

Not sure if you other trappers are seeing the same thing in your areas. I've now gone 3 weeks with fisher/coon cubbies out, and slow is an understatement. Only managed two fisher so far, when the usual for the past 22 years (including last year) on these properties has been 8-10 animals in a week or less. I've never overharvested the area, there's been no habitat change, and there's no new trapping pressure adjacent. I don't think it's weather related during this trapping period either. Wondering if last year's brutal winter had an effect on them too (females didn't implant due to poor body condition by the time spring arrived?). I'm thinking I'm going to pull my traps next weekend. Don't want to pound what's left too hard.

[severn don]

I am not a trapper Fenelon but definitely a reduction in my area, 12 weeks only seen 1 lots of bears thoe good luck on your season Don

[xbolt]

I seem to have a good sustainable population here. I have been seeing lots of tracks and out of the five i've harvested so far three have been females. During bear season i've seen multiple fisher in the area. They seem to be fairly resilient and haven't shown signs of reduction in population here.

[oaknut]

Populations are doing well here too. I am not a trapper but spend alot of time in the woods. I would have thought the extra snow to be a good thing for them anyhow.

[mooboy76]

Don't know about fishers up here, but the marten catches have been way down the last two years.

My friend is trapping on two lines with over 120 boxes, and has only pulled 12 this year. I think he only pulled 6 out last year.

He examined the skulls this year and did notice that over 80% of them were juveniles, so things seem to be okay on the breeding side.

[Bo D]

We had a trapper in last season on our hunting property and he took out 17 in a week. Only noticeable difference this year we're seeing more porkies. Not a good thing when you are running hounds that run to catch...