2023 marten line

[JakeLand]

Group photo

[redi]

Stacking them up. Nice

[Machias]

Great job!!

[JakeLand]

Caught 5 today but a Fischer decided to snack on 2 of them as in left me a head and tail of them 😡
He’s the 3 leftovers

[Birdgetter]

Awesome! Marten trapping is a lot of work. Looking forward to following along this year.

how you guys doing this year ? You put up great numbers last year !

Well I’m done with the marten for the year. I trapped them for a few weeks and ended with 8. My buddy is still trapping them and is at 19. I think he’s going to pull traps this weekend. You’re having a great season!

[JakeLand]

2 more

[JakeLand]

One more today plus a bobcat ate all but the head of another😡
Started doing a new box setup in the big trees where there’s not many pecker poles for sets

[JakeLand]

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[Boss .300 winmag]

What percentage do you loose to predators?

[JakeLand]

Bad year this year with cats and Fischer … I’ve got 28 in the fur shed and after today that makes 7 have been taken by the *censored*s

[Boss .300 winmag]

Bad year this year with cats and Fischer … I’ve got 28 in the fur shed and after today that makes 7 have been taken by the *censored*s

Not great, but not terrible.

[Alchase]

Forgive my ignorance about martins. My only knowledge has come from watching those Alaskan trapping shows. Most of the martins they show are black or almost black with a little white. All of those shown in this thread are reddish? Is that a regional difference in color?

[JakeLand]

Marten in the norther territories are bigger and darker for sure kinda of a dark chocolate. Here we have pacific marten which are typically a little smaller but I’ve caught them light and dark and some have white chests but most have the peach throat patches

[Alchase]

Marten in the norther territories are bigger and darker for sure kinda of a dark chocolate. Here we have pacific marten which are typically a little smaller but I’ve caught them light and dark and some have white chests but most have the peach throat patches

Thank you Jakeland