Fisher

[Steuben Jerry]

[ny hunter]

Great pics..................

[bugsNbows]

Sure have been a lot of fishers showing up on cameras lately. Very cool.

[grampy]

Great pictures! I really like the top one. One of the coolest critters in the woods.

[Steuben Jerry]

We're seeing them more and more over the last few years. Up until 5-ish years ago, I'd only observed one in my life and had never gotten one in front of a trail camera.

Now, it's still cool when we see them, but I no longer consider it rare. I'm running 10 cams, and I usually have a fisher on one cam or another on almost every card pull.

[turkeyfeathers]

Every year in the last few on here it seems like we have more members seeing "their first'   I first cut tracks 3 years ago on our stomping grounds  The next year trail cam pics and one sighting  . Last year pics and a 3 sightings   

[helmut in the bush]

Cool pictures, I've heard a lot of people saying that they kill everything, they'll take out Turkeys on the roost? They'll tear your barn apart to get at a ground hog. they also said if you see one shoot it, you don't want them around, worse than coyotes 

[Steuben Jerry]

I think I posted these before, but here's a fisher that had designs on our chickens. Our smaller barn cat got into it with him, and didn't suffer a scratch. The fisher looked to be a juvenile, so I'm not sure the cat would have the same luck with a savvy adult. But we do still have the same chickens, and it (or anything else) hasn't torn the coop up.

Edited February 26, 2018 by Steuben Jerry

[Jdubs]

Lucky cat, Jerry!

[Steuben Jerry]

3 minutes ago, Jdubs said:

Lucky cat, Jerry!

Hah, I agree! 8 lives left?

[rachunter]

i noticed when one showed up on my property the frogs and snakes disappeared and the rabbit population decreased. From what i read they'll eat anything.Cool animal though

[Woody Meristem]

Fishers are actually omnivores and will eat a lot of carrion and fruit when it's available although they prefer small mammals and birds and specialize in killing porcupines. If fishers lived up to the hype about them we'd all be in danger.

[Lawdwaz]

The is one balsy cat Jerry!  I'm impressed........

Great pics too!

[REDNECK4LIFE32]

I see fishers routinely between sets at my aunts property and the new hunting spot could of killed both at both spots but like to see something moving around and not nothing.

[BigVal]

I definitely wouldn't shoot one... Cool pics I think fishers are pretty cool animals. I'll never forget the first time my dad and I saw one.

[Helderberg Hunter]

I'm not big on cats that cat of yours gets an A+

[Steuben Jerry]

1 hour ago, sherlockgael said:

I'm not big on cats that cat of yours gets an A+

Thanks! Niether my wife or I ever owned a cat before. Someone dropped one off one evening that we found in our chicken coop the next day. We couldn't find any takers so we let it live in the coop for a bit. Turned out she was pregnant. Only one kitten lived. We took Momma cat and her kitten to the vet and got them spayed and all up to code (shots, etc). Momma cat passed away a few months later. No marks, just found her dead with no apparent explanation. So 4 years later the kitten still lives in the coop in her own clean and heated "apartment". She's the defacto rooster and herds the birds around when we let them out. She doesn't seem to kill much except mice. She'll lay by the bird feeder for hours and never goes after one that I've seen. Very affectionate too. Comes in the house to visit, but wants no part of staying inside. And that's fine by me.

She also seems to get along with whitetails. Now if only I could make use of this info from her somehow..

[Arcade Hunter]

Great pictures... I have yet to see one.  My buddy saw one about 8 years ago in 9H while hunting off Curriers Rd.