Maine Fisher Cat Season

Fisher have become more adapted to living in forests in more suburban areas and are responsible for preying on local house cats.

Maine fisher cat season. Year long trail camera in the north maine woods moose bear fisher marten lynx deer coyote duration. Giving an occasional chirp on my turkey call when i saw movement in the distance heading my way. If you are trapping in southern maine mdifw would like to know. Here is a small clip of the 2017 season.

Better check your seasons than walk home with a ticket or worse. Upland hunting season 2015 2016. Wmds 12 13 15 29. 1 see muskrat trapping for information on trapping muskrat after the general trapping season in areas where the beaver season is open.

November 15 2020 december 31 2020. The fisher is one of the only animals that can successfully attack kill and eat a porcupine. Other matters of attention new england cottontail rabbits. As it got closer i was very surprised to see it was a litter of four young fisher cats just playing and frolicking.

Adult males are 90 to 120 cm 35 47 in long and weigh 3 5 to 6 0 kilograms 8 13 lb. November 1 2020 december 31 2020. Big game hunting season 2015 2016. They are fishers not fisher cats no matter what the double a baseball team in new hampshire calls itself.

Fishers often are mistakenly referred to as fisher cats but they are not cats. During the summer the color becomes more mottled as the fur goes through a moulting cycle. Wmds 1 11 14. Since it is a nocturnal animal it hunts in the night and is not easily spotted in the day.

Adult females are 75 to 95 cm 30 37 in long and weigh 2 0 to 2 5 kg 4 6 lb. Although many people call them fisher cats the name is inappropriate. Except during their brief mating season fishers are solitary creatures and are active during night and day throughout the year. They are neither members of the feline family nor do they catch fish.

The fisher cat is a nocturnal animal and the most fisher cat screams and fisher cat screeches can be heard at night. Find all of your maine hunting seasons information right here. Went hunting one spring morning in york maine for turkey. They came within five feet from me and kept on moving.

The fur of the fisher varies seasonally being denser and glossier in the winter.