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[Andy]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Andy, what threat do fishers pose?
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They eat birds, and lots of them. I have a friend who is a wildlife biologist for NY State and he said they eat porcupines (from the butt hole side to gain entrance) and grouse/squirrels/mice and rabbits. They are killing machines. There's a video out there somewhere of one chasing a squirrel down in the tree and killing it. One of my employees had her whole chicken coup killed by one fisher (which she finally saw and killed). Took the heads off all the birds. Worst part is she really couldn't figure out how it got in it was a pretty tight enclosure with netting above.

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[Quigley97]

I hunted them the first three years that Mosquito Creek Sportsman Association held their coyote hunt. Don't know if they still have it. Moved from PA nine years ago. The club I hunted with in the Quehanna Wild Area killed four the first year they had a camp of their own which was way back in 1990.

[charlie cleveland]

that's a big ote for sure...charlie

[Randy Roberts]

A couple that got to close while I was perched in a tree. They run out of steam pretty quick after attack from an air missile.

[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.

[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

[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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[10 bore]

Originally Posted by Gary Laudermilch

Fishers specialize in eating porkys. Of course they also eat other stuff.

And red squirrels. They are in the weasel family so they don't stay in a small area they have big travel Range

[Tom Flanigan]

Thats a beautiful coyote. I've killed some in Sasketechawan. We have a number of them on the property I hunt in Pawling, NY. We see them fairly often and hear them howling and nipping many nights.

But, I decided not to shoot them. I have a caller but I've never used it. They look too much like a dog to me. I just can't pull the trigger on one anymore. Sure they do take fawns in the spring on the property, but I have never seen evidence of them killing a full grown deer in my area.

I guess its pointless sentimentality on my part, but I don't think I'll ever kill one on the property.

[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.