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[Richard Flanders]

That's a juuuuge coyote, as Trump would say. Fisher Cat? I've never even heard of one and figured it was the same as our marten up here but this pic shows that false! Jeeezus, they can be huge, bigger than a wolverine. They'd have to eat a lot of smaller critters to survive. I'd be, uh..hmmm.. uh, "looking for them" too if I had chickens or whatever.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Richard Flanders

That's a juuuuge coyote, as Trump would say. Fisher Cat? I've never even heard of one and figured it was the same as our marten up here but this pic shows that false! Jeeezus, they can be huge, bigger than a wolverine. They'd have to eat a lot of smaller critters to survive. I'd be, uh..hmmm.. uh, "looking for them" too if I had chickens or whatever.

That is one AWFUL BIG fisher!! I have never even heard of one that big and I've seen and caught a number of them. I caught a big male one time that was 19 lbs but the one in the picture looks like 25-30 lbs.





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[John Bastiani]

Originally Posted by Richard Flanders

That's a juuuuge coyote, as Trump would say. Fisher Cat? I've never even heard of one and figured it was the same as our marten up here but this pic shows that false! Jeeezus, they can be huge, bigger than a wolverine. They'd have to eat a lot of smaller critters to survive. I'd be, uh..hmmm.. uh, "looking for them" too if I had chickens or whatever.

I moved to Maryland(Deep Creek lake area) 3 years ago and was having some work done on my house. The contractor ask if I had ever seen a Fisher while trout fishing in some remote areas I go to. I said no and had to go look on the internet and see what they looked like. I live in the woods just off the main highway and see game almost everyday(Mainly deer-small game and the occasional Bear) I was looking out the door one day and noticed a strange creature in the back yard coming about 20 yards by the house. It was a fisher-the first one that I had ever seen. I don't know how aggressive they are towards humans but I really don't want to see one in the wild and find out. The contractor told me that at night they sound like babies crying and sitting out on my deck one night I heard that sound. I figure I might have a family of them close to the house but have only seen the fisher one time in the last 3 years.

[Researcher]

"The Coyote is a survivor
Reckon he's got to be
Lives in the snow at forty below
or Malibu by the sea"

Ian Tyson

[Tom Flanigan]

Harry, I have no doubt that coyotes take adult deer. I just haven't seen any evidence of it on the property I hunt. We do snowmobiling on the property, so if there was evidence of a deer kill, we probably would have come across it.

I wish they weren't there. I really don't like to see them although I do enjoy the howling and yipping just after dark. It's a wild sound that I like. The deer population on the property is very high so they couldn't make much of a dent and would probably be an asset to the deer herd. There are only three of us who hunt deer and I am the only one who really hunts to any extent.

[Dean Romig]

Coyotes in the area of VT that I hunt take down.. or more descriptively, kill fawns, adult deer and moose calves-of-the-year. I see it every fall/winter in the hunting seasons I am there.
I will shoot one whenever I see one while knowing the scientific facts are that no matter how many coyotes we hunters kill it will not affect their population. Others will quickly fill the vacuum.





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[Tom Flanigan]

Coyotes certainly have their place in nature. We tend to view them as enemies, but they are just trying to survive. They don’t hunt for sport like we do and they don’t take more than they need. In my opinion, they have more of a right to game than we do.

In some areas, they might actually be a benefit to wild populations. I believe they are on the property I hunt although I hate the thought of them taking fawns.

I have nothing against people who kill them. I understand why. I used to shoot them too in Canada. But I’ve changed a bit over the years. I now no longer kill anything I don’t eat and am more in tune with the coyotes and other animals place in nature.

[Tom Flanigan]

Amen

[Dean Romig]

We are amazed that our bird dogs can pick up the scent of a pheasant, grouse, quail or woodcock at twenty or thirty yards or even more. But the nose of a predator is even keener because he survives by his sense of smell. They hunt at night when the ground roosting birds are at their most vulnerable and the predators know this. They can sneak in soundlessly and kill them in their sleep. I am really surprised any of these ground roosting species are even as plentiful as they are today and I’m not surprised in the least by the “kill em on sight” of the old time plantation owners and managers.





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[Bob Jurewicz]

Here is a picture of the 52 lb. coyote Harry shot that he mentioned on the previos page.