Nice Fisher

[Single_shot]

Just had to share this with you. Nice,nice fisher.

http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/pennsylvania/117212-fishers.html

Hope it's ok to share it. If not,Lord I appologize.

[Bballhunter11]

Very nice fisher. They are starting to become pretty populated here now

[Single_shot]

I had a big one run along the stone wall just below the cabin last spring,was a good size one too. A friend near my house in Pa has a family of them right by his house,they watch them from the porch,really cool to see.

EDIT: I hear NY has a reporting link of some sort for them?

[Geno C]

nice size

[FULLDRAWXX75]

Fishers have a very large fondness for porcupine's, it is there favorite food group per say.  Where you find a high concentration of porcupine you will also find Fisher.

There is an area of wood lots near my house, within a 1/4 mile to the south. It covers several country blocks and @ a 3-4 mile radius that is loaded with porcupines, over the past few yrs. the amount of Fisher sightings has increased greatly. I see at least 2-3 per hunting season when in that area. One of the land owners had a rather unpleasant run in with one in the late fall while cutting firewood. All we can guess is he was very near or on top of its den area.

About 12 yrs ago, I was hunting a new area and was still hunting the edge of this big swamp area, I sat down on a wind blown hemlock to check things out, when I felt the tree move/bounce slightly.............................I slowly looked down the tree and here comes a fisher, just trotting along up the tree. At first I was not sure if it was coming for me or just didn't see me.......................well it was the later, just as I moved to point my gun at it (if needed) it stopped dead, slowly lifted its head and had the most surprised look on its face. It just slowly backed up about 3 steps and jumped off the log and ran off away from me.

It was only about 1.5 - 2 ft. long at tops (nose to tail)

It was one of those excited/scared moments, not sure what it was going to do. Turned out to be a really cool day in the woods.........................................

FDXX75

[Doc]

I had no idea they grew that big!

Doc

[Single_shot]

I just got back from the cabin...went below to the stone wall and put out some scraps,a turkey carcass,the drippings,half a cake nobody ate and other table scraps. Set everything up on a melted set of tracks that look like the fishers tracks....won't be heading back up for a few weeks maybe. This could be very interesting. Can't wait.