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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: trapper boy on December 12, 2014, 07:13:31 PM

Title: Weasels in washington
Post by: trapper boy on December 12, 2014, 07:13:31 PM: Where exactly are the most weasels able to found in eastern washington. I have always wanted to trap weasels. Thanks in advance. ;D
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Post by: RadSav on December 12, 2014, 07:42:03 PM: City scum weasels or long furry weasels? :chuckle:

I've always found the most weasels in areas with a high concentration of chipmunks or sage rats.
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Post by: jasnt on December 12, 2014, 07:59:17 PM: Pretty close to the whole state!
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Post by: mfswallace on December 12, 2014, 08:00:47 PM: You trapper are a weasel!! :chuckle:
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Post by: kodiak 907 on December 12, 2014, 08:04:05 PM: Well that escalated quickly :police:
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Post by: kodiak 907 on December 12, 2014, 08:05:33 PM: Highest concentration of weasels is the greater Olympia area.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on December 12, 2014, 08:05:58 PM: Little rascals
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Post by: kodiak 907 on December 12, 2014, 08:09:42 PM: Great pic. Little chicken killers
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Post by: T Pearce on December 12, 2014, 08:14:24 PM: Get out and start looking before snowfall because they are white in their winter coat and called Ermin (sp?) Come summertime they are Weasels again.
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Post by: lokidog on December 12, 2014, 08:28:37 PM: Be sure your trap has no openings bigger than 1/2" wide like along the sides of the doors, and that 1/2" might still be big enough for a weasel to get through so probably figure 1/4". I had mink getting through a 3/4" gap.

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Post by: CAMPMEAT on December 14, 2014, 11:52:49 AM: There quite a few around my neck of the woods.
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Post by: boneaddict on December 14, 2014, 12:01:10 PM: Last weasel I saw was while I was watching some beaver and I cant believe I just said that. :yike:
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Post by: kodiak 907 on December 14, 2014, 12:08:46 PM: Now that's funny
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Post by: nwwanderer on December 14, 2014, 01:12:58 PM: Considering Mustelid type weasels, pretty common. Great little mousers, but often in trouble killing anything they can catch. Not often seen and when you do they are on the move.
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on December 14, 2014, 06:17:11 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on December 14, 2014, 12:01:10 PM
Last weasel I saw was while I was watching some beaver and I cant believe I just said that. :yike:
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Well now. We might have to keep and eye on you for a while............................ :tup:
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on December 14, 2014, 06:20:34 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on December 14, 2014, 12:01:10 PM
Last weasel I saw was while I was watching some beaver and I cant believe I just said that. :yike:
Now that's just plain funny there!!!
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Post by: horsehunter509 on December 14, 2014, 06:25:17 PM: Found this one this hunting season
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Post by: GrampasGuns on December 14, 2014, 07:01:16 PM: I got one in duvall while trying to trap rats. Let the little guy go as I don't have a trapping lisc.
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Post by: KenPCPilot on December 15, 2014, 06:18:19 PM: Quote from: kodiak 907 on December 12, 2014, 08:05:33 PM
Highest concentration of weasels is the greater Olympia area.
Rats out number them there. I live just out of lacey. I saw a common fawn and white one hunting around a storm runoff retention pond. Lots of small fish and frogs. I was fishing at Lake St. Cair in Thurston county and saw a very small jet black hunting along the shoreline. I was curious how common black is. I have seen them alot in Wyoming and Idaho they were the typical white and fawn color and usually a lot bigger than ones I have seen in Washington.
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Post by: nwwanderer on December 15, 2014, 06:48:12 PM: Black one was probably a mink
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Post by: 7mmfan on December 15, 2014, 06:54:24 PM: Over in the Rimrock 2 years ago had a small weasel being chased by a big mean squirrel on the hillside I was sitting on. Dang weasel hauled butt right down and under the back of my hunter orange! :yike: He hid in there for about a minute while the squirrel yelled at him from outside. Finally the squirrel took off and the little guy came out from under my vest, looked at me, and continuted on his way. Very cool little encounter.
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Post by: Jonathan_S on December 15, 2014, 07:11:41 PM: I've seen a few in the wild but the best way to answer your question "where are the most weasels..." it is where you find them. Sagebrush, ponderosa forests, deep timber. They can be anywhere.

Look for mice habitat (tall grass, thickets, rock outcroppings, lumber piles etc.)

Their tracks look like this in the snow:

8 8 8 8 8 8 with about 10-18" between
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Post by: barracuda163 on December 15, 2014, 07:29:49 PM: I've had half dozen or so encounters with vermin, have always wondered if they were weasels or mink. Most of the time they were black, but once I saw both a black and a brown together, so that threw out my mink hypothesis.
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Post by: Jonathan_S on December 16, 2014, 07:06:28 AM: Quote from: barracuda163 on December 15, 2014, 07:29:49 PM
I've had half dozen or so encounters with vermin, have always wondered if they were weasels or mink. Most of the time they were black, but once I saw both a black and a brown together, so that threw out my mink hypothesis.

That's what color mink are
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Post by: T Pearce on December 16, 2014, 07:24:54 AM: 5 years ago, raising chickens and the wife spotting a Weasel on our patio caused me to get a Parson Terrier.
I don't know if the dog canceled a weasels ticket but I have enjoyed having the terriers weasels or not.
1/2 mile away my cousin lost all of her turkeys. They are the devil.
Patio security duty...
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Post by: Elkrunner on December 16, 2014, 07:26:24 AM: Pretty cool pics. Not sure if I have ever seen a weasel in WA
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Post by: boneaddict on December 16, 2014, 07:31:22 AM: THey don't tend to hold still long, but their curiousity is amazing. They don't tend to show fear, just zip from here to there. Talk about killing machines. I am very thankful bear don't have their metabolism .....
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Post by: jackmaster on December 16, 2014, 07:38:58 AM: They seem to really like river banks or lake edges, you can find them pretty much anywhere, do a Google search on the little devils, there is alot of info on them, it tells you their favorite foods, habitat everything... good luck, post up some pics when you start catchn some :tup:
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Post by: Bill W on December 16, 2014, 07:43:03 AM: Every once in a while there's an explosion in weasel populations.
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Post by: pianoman9701 on December 16, 2014, 07:56:07 AM: The state record weasel.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on December 16, 2014, 08:49:42 AM: Ohh look heres another one!!
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Post by: Pygmy on December 22, 2014, 08:57:40 PM: Saw this weasel carrying a large vole while deer hunting this year north of Winthrop.

Pygmy
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Post by: MADMAX on December 24, 2014, 06:49:32 AM: Saw one all white (ermine ) this year at the chopaka lake boat ramp having lunch during late archery