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Basilmarvin

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I saw a fishercat today as I was just taking a walk in the woods and I got to wondering if they would come to a call. If they would come to a call, what would be the call to use? Thanks for any tips you can give me.


Basil
 
Not sure if a fisher will respond to a distress call. I have on occasion called in marten(sable). If I were to choose a call, stick with a cottontail or snowshoe hare distress, whichever is more prevalent in your area.
 
Don't know which call would work either, but I have seen them go right up a tree and take squirrels so fast it makes you wonder.

And wonder I do.....if maybe a squirrel call might not work?

I know one thing though, I have seem them mad, and believe me, you don't want to make one mad. They are some ornery critters.

In all the time I have been calling, I do believe this is one animal that I have not called in, at least that I knew about.
 
Thanks for the advice. What I am trying to do is get some pictures of a fisher cat in the wild. I have been baiting him and then going down to call him in and I have a camera at the ready but so far no luck. I have captured him with a remote camera though but the pictures were not great.

Basil
 
One of their primary prey animals are porcupines. If you have that sound it would be worth a try. If you get some pic’s would you post them? They would be a kick to see.
 
I don't have a porcupine call. Do they make a porcupine call? Can anybody tell me where to get one if in fact they do make a porcupine call. I will post any pictures I am able to get.

Basil
 
There have been reports of folks seeing fisher cats here on Cape Cod. I heard some god awful screams here a couple times in the last few weeks. I have lived here 30 years and never heard anything scream like one of those things.

Sounds like a bad power steering pump, shreekish scream. Really weird sound. Almost like a bird distress.

Those things are fast too. I first heard the scream like 100 yards away to my right and 30 seconds later the thing was way to my left.

The MA DFW says they eat racoons. Must be a mean critter to eat racoons.

Too bad they don't eat coyotes /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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Hi, Gnetter,
I have had others also tell me of the horrid screams that they heard at night. I have a few pictures of them but not any real good ones.

Basil
 


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