Too many Fishers.

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What is with the resurgence of Fishers in the Southern areas?
I think they need to put the quota up on these vicous little bastards.
This one is 40 inches long and weighed 15 pounds!
I would not want my dogs to tangle with it....

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I wonder if the increased fisher pop has anything to do with the number of coyote killed deer laying around in the south because of the rising cotote population. That may be just enough extra food laying around to get the population up a little. Who knows though.


The fishers must have moved south because this winter I have noticed way more marten sign than fisher sign.
 
Is too many fishers a bad thing? O.K., I know they are a serious threat to outdoor pets and they make some irritating noises prowling in the back yard, but other than that.......

I had never see a live fisher before I moved to eastern Ontario, only seen them stuffed in a class room @ college. I'm not against trapping or shooting fishers for income, sport, or property protection, because there is a very healthy population. In fact a couple years ago while I was deer hunting a pair of fisher ran right by me and if it were legal I would have blasted them. All I'm saying is that I'm happy to see a healthy population and the diversity of fur-bearing mammals in this region.

Jesus Christ! I sound like a god dam HIPPY!
 
I used to see lots of sign in the northern regions but never saw any sign of Fishers south of #7 in 25 years. Occasionally you would hear of one getting trapped down here but they were rare as bearded hens.
Now they are everywhere... and I must wonder if it is a direct result of the burgeoning turkey populations?
I have found Turkey feathers and Fisher tracks more than once in the last few years...
 
My wife and I saw one while deer hunting this past season about 1/2 a mile from our place and one was hit by a car in front of a friends place about 4miles north of us.
YES, getting to be quite a number of these little buggers!
 
I was working up around Lions Head on the bruce Peninsula. An old guy had them denned up right behind his house. He said they liked the natural dens in the rock on the escapment. Piles of porcupine quills and bones all over his backyard. Nasty little things
 
I don't know about everyone else but since the fishers have moved in there has been a noticeable decline in small game. Where I life it is a rare sight to see a groundhog they used to be everywhere. I don't know if it's just me but in the last 5 years there has been a rapid decline in rabbits. The rabbit trails around my house used to be insane I have seen 1 rabbit in the last 2 years and just this year where I hunt there didn't seem to be alot of partridge around. I use to see a half dozen every time I went out. I think the fishers are responsible for this.
 
bear slayer said:
I don't know about everyone else but since the fishers have moved in there has been a noticeable decline in small game. Where I life it is a rare sight to see a groundhog they used to be everywhere. I don't know if it's just me but in the last 5 years there has been a rapid decline in rabbits. The rabbit trails around my house used to be insane I have seen 1 rabbit in the last 2 years and just this year where I hunt there didn't seem to be alot of partridge around. I use to see a half dozen every time I went out. I think the fishers are responsible for this.
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You know I was just talking to a bunch of beef farmers in Bruce County that told me they barely saw any groundhogs last year. Same thing with my girlfriends family farm in Wellington County. In wellington county they think it's do to the coyotes which I can see since it sounds like Transalvania along the river at night behind there house.
The guys in the Bruce though said they hadn't seen many coyotes or heard them last year and yet the groundhog population was way down.
You just might be right about the fishers killing off small game
 
Not too much to worry about with the dogs - house cats are another matter.
Fishers do take a number of porkies, but are tough on snowshoe hares and red squirrels as well. I would imagine they account for their share of roosting turkeys too. Have always been a fixture in the Dist. of Parry Sound, and are quite amazing at how fast they can just about completely clean-up a gut pile ! Watched one do so over the better part of a half day - hauling everything he could carry away, returning for more at regular intervals.
 
billyc said:
just talking to a bunch of beef farmers in Bruce County that told me they barely saw any groundhogs last year. Same thing with my girlfriends family farm in Wellington County. In wellington county they think it's do to the coyotes which I can see since it sounds like Transalvania along the river at night behind there house.
The guys in the Bruce though said they hadn't seen many coyotes or heard them last year and yet the groundhog population was way down.
You just might be right about the fishers killing off small game
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Fishers in Bruce County?????? Theres gotta be another reason for the decline in DirtPigs.
 
I was grouse hunting up around PineFalls one time... walking down an old sandy logging road, I saw a fisher, trotting along, coming right at me. I stop... he's still coming. "What the hell?" I think to myself, "he's coming right at me!" About 30m away, I raise my rifle, then I guess he sees me, makes a high pitch squeek and jumps 3 feet in the air. He then did the "running in one spot" thing trying to get traction in the sand and took off to parts unknown. I still laugh about that, it was about 3 years ago. He was a fair size
 
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