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I was just talking to Ron Siderits last night. The subject of marten came up. He said the snow will tell you where to set.
Trapped a bunch of them in NW MT. Above 4K for the most part. Wood boxes with screen in the back. Piece of beaver meat (greasy stuff) in back of box, box nailed to branchy tree if possible, 5 to 6 feet off the ground. Used mostly foothold victors but 110 connibears as budget permitted. Throw some sardines in the back of box and hang the sardine pull tab lid or piece of 6x6 sheet metal from a length of trapping wire from a branch so it spins/reflects in the moonlight to attract em. They're attracted to shiny things. Used a similar deal for bobcat/lynx cubby sets. Neither critter is very smart and can be had if u put a good amount of sets out.
Quote from: Humptulips on December 13, 2017, 06:51:42 PMI was just talking to Ron Siderits last night. The subject of marten came up. He said the snow will tell you where to set.Old Ron from Lake Wenatchee the wolf trapper?
Fred, I trapped 2 pine martin in the Blue Mtns a few years ago at 5700 feet elevation.
We've got a lot of marten up here where im at. This year id like to get my hands on a few and thinking about trying something new, im thinking on using the better mouse trap rolling bucket idea but over size it using a 55 gallon drum half full of water with a gatorade bottle packed with beaver meat suspended above it. Of course ill have to make it so that the bait is not visible to raptors and ill suspend up the trunk of the tree in hopes nothing larger will tip it over or get to my marten. Snow is about the only way i know of to for sure locate marten populations and there are plenty around here as far as elevation goes i caught one at just over 500' in big old timber he'd been tripping my bobcat sets i thought it was just a civet and set a little trap up next to my cat set and the next day boom i got my first marten.
Why their thick where hes from
Same as JakeLand, Fred.Trap was on the ground, covered with a tarp and brush. Beaver meat for bait.