| |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
| |
| StriperTalk! All things Striper |
 |
|
05-12-2011, 04:08 PM
|
#1
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: N.K.
Posts: 1,330
|
Fishercats
I saw one of these creatures for the first time today.Scurrying across the road at sunrise.Funny I've lived in MA and RI my entire life and never stumbled across one until today.Very cool looking animal.Not my picture but after trying to figure out what it was the picture was spot on.
FisherCat.jpg
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-12-2011, 04:21 PM
|
#2
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
|
See them all the time in the Matunuck Wakefield, Narragansett area.
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-12-2011, 04:34 PM
|
#3
|
|
Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
|
saw one chasing birds and squirrels up a tree the other day in my backyard. you should have seen how fast it scaled the trees. unreal...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-12-2011, 04:37 PM
|
#4
|
|
........
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
|
they sure have a large fat tail don't they !
that gives them away right off....
their numbers had diminished and now they are on the rebound
in a big way
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-12-2011, 05:32 PM
|
#5
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
they sure have a large fat tail don't they !
that gives them away right off....
their numbers had diminished and now they are on the rebound
in a big way
|
When they banned leg hold traps they started to rebound. I know a couple guys that you to trap them near my house, once the law went into effect they gave up, now i see them about once a month or so. |
Everything is better on the rocks.
|
|
|
|
|
05-12-2011, 06:10 PM
|
#6
|
|
BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
|
Got one living behind my house!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
|
|
|
|
|
05-13-2011, 08:37 AM
|
#7
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Rockcrawler
When they banned leg hold traps they started to rebound. I know a couple guys that you to trap them near my house, once the law went into effect they gave up, now i see them about once a month or so.
|
Not true..their numbers were rebounding long before the ban which included conibears.. which is the main reason for the populatin explosion of beaver....... The most effective method for catching fisher is with a baited cubby or pole set gaurded with a #220 conibear.. this state has only allowed cage traps on dry land since the mid 70's.. fisher, like beavers were trapped to near extinction in colonial times.. Fisher have a very strange reproductive cycle,females usualy breed every 2 years, and only have 2-3 kits... they were re-introduced by the state ( of Mass) with animals live trapped from Vermont and upstate new york... like the coyote, they have adapted to urban life, which has made thier numbers explode.. Man is now their real only enemy...I've trapped hundreds of them... both as an animal damage control officer and fur trapper before retiring in 1993...after a second bout with lymes disease. |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
|
|
|
|
|
05-12-2011, 04:37 PM
|
#8
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Somerset Ma
Posts: 1,811
|
We have them around the Somerset/Fall River area. They make an aweful schreech.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-12-2011, 04:40 PM
|
#9
|
|
Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
|
woke up to the screaching the other night before I saw it a few days later. sounds like a baby screaming...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-13-2011, 12:18 PM
|
#10
|
|
What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
Posts: 3,108
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by bart
woke up to the screaching the other night before I saw it a few days later. sounds like a baby screaming...
|
yup |
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-12-2011, 05:26 PM
|
#11
|
|
No Shorts On
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bassachusetts
Posts: 1,109
|
We have a lot in Boylston. Had one chase my supervisor one day. Fast and vicious buggers
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-13-2011, 06:44 AM
|
#12
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Gloucester
Posts: 33
|
Did the same thing in VT. Killed off almost all the small game before they tried a porcupine....No more cats in the neiborhood
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-13-2011, 08:42 AM
|
#13
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Speedy Too
Did the same thing in VT. Killed off almost all the small game before they tried a porcupine....No more cats in the neiborhood
|
Fisher are one of the few animals ( great horned owls being the other) to dine regualrly on Porky's... deep winter will find them in the hemlock groves near a porky colony.... using thier speed, they confront the quilled pig head on, by administering several speedy bites to the nose and face they sit back and let the animal suffocate in it's own blood... then flip said pig and attack the soft ( unquillled) belly ... when they are done, all that is left is a skin with quills attached.... I've come accross several in the wint woods.. that tale in the snow told the gruesome act.... |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
|
|
|
|
|
05-13-2011, 01:15 PM
|
#14
|
|
Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
|
I had one a couple of years ago running up and down the wall down back. Have not seen it in quite awhile.
|
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
|
|
|
|
|
05-13-2011, 08:53 PM
|
#15
|
|
........
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
|
i've heard it enough that i know "for sure"
that a screaming (just caught) Rabbit
sounds the most like a screaming Baby
so much so that it awakens the prehistoric genes
defines the words blood curdling
raises the hair on your neck
creepy
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-14-2011, 05:22 PM
|
#16
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,038
|
I saw a toad in the road this AM.
Should I start a new thread for this sighting?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-14-2011, 05:38 PM
|
#17
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 65
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodyCT
I saw a toad in the road this AM.
Should I start a new thread for this sighting?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
Please. I would like to make a comment about it. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-14-2011, 06:16 PM
|
#18
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 629
|
Adam you should stop and pet him next time.Never mind what everyone else says,they are cute,cuddly,and friendly.  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-14-2011, 06:41 PM
|
#19
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: N.K.
Posts: 1,330
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by animal
Adam you should stop and pet him next time.Never mind what everyone else says,they are cute,cuddly,and friendly. |
Bob you should pet me !  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-14-2011, 06:59 PM
|
#20
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 629
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam_777
Bob you should pet me ! |
I'm flattered,but,no.  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-14-2011, 06:44 PM
|
#21
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: N.K.
Posts: 1,330
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodyCT
I saw a toad in the road this AM.
Should I start a new thread for this sighting?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
Please do.You are not wanted in this one any longer.  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-14-2011, 07:03 PM
|
#22
|
|
........
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodyCT
I saw a toad in the road this AM.
Should I start a new thread for this sighting?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
was he a Fisher Toad Woody? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-14-2011, 07:50 PM
|
#23
|
|
Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
|
I think I also saw a fishercat tonight in Falmouth. Just before dusk I rounded a point while out plugging with my dog and about 300 yds away saw a fast black cat-like animal dash off the beach. Hard to judge size from the distance away, but it looked bigger and faster than a cat. Found its tracks, clusters of four in a hoping pattern about 28-36" apart. The track looked too big to be a regular cat. It went up a well worn path through the beach grass that my dog has been taking an inordinate interest in all winter (I thought it was a coyote path). I also recall hearing godawful screams one night last summer. Maybe Joe can confirm the track? I don't want my dumbass golden to meet up with this creature.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-14-2011, 08:51 PM
|
#24
|
|
zziplex lover
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: upper cape cod, MA
Posts: 856
|
Keep your cats and small dogs in if you think a fisher is living locally......
|
Lobster Troll #1
|
|
|
|
|
05-15-2011, 05:54 AM
|
#25
|
|
Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
|
My dog is not small......just dumb. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-16-2011, 07:50 PM
|
#26
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 14
|
I saw a fish and a cat in my back yard this weekend!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-15-2011, 11:13 AM
|
#27
|
|
........
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
I don't want my dumbass golden to meet up with this creature.
|
it's not lethal like a badger is
a golden would make it run away
they are not bold |
|
|
|
|
|
|
05-20-2011, 02:34 PM
|
#28
|
|
zoom
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
it's not lethal like a badger is
a golden would make it run away
they are not bold
|
My (I mean my wife's) little yorkie saw a squirrel in the yard the other day. I've never seen that little sheet run so fast.
Laughed my arse off !!!!!
7 pounds of PURE TERROR !!!!!!! |
~..~..~.. ><((((º>
Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
|
|
|
|
|
05-16-2011, 06:16 AM
|
#29
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
I think I also saw a fishercat tonight in Falmouth. Just before dusk I rounded a point while out plugging with my dog and about 300 yds away saw a fast black cat-like animal dash off the beach. Hard to judge size from the distance away, but it looked bigger and faster than a cat. Found its tracks, clusters of four in a hoping pattern about 28-36" apart. The track looked too big to be a regular cat. It went up a well worn path through the beach grass that my dog has been taking an inordinate interest in all winter (I thought it was a coyote path). I also recall hearing godawful screams one night last summer. Maybe Joe can confirm the track? I don't want my dumbass golden to meet up with this creature.
|
Judging from the rear pad mark, it looks like a fisher, Fisher are not cats, but a member of the Weasel family, most resembeling large mink... females are smaller than the males, a large adult female only gets to about 6 lbs... a large male, can get to12-15lbs.. i got a large male once that was 18lbs and measured 40" from nose to tail.....normaly they prefer conifer forests boardering swamps.... they love to hunt stone walls for mice , chipmunks and love red squirrels... but also eat acorns and fruits when they are in bumper crop....their ankles are unique, and can rotate 90 degre either way from center... great for chasing grey and red squirrels in trees... like all members of the weasel family, they are highly nomadic, they make their circuit about every 7 to 10 days, except when denned up with young... when the run they bound with their backs arched...... theitr body motion kind of look like a seal with legs when the are running... |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
|
|
|
|
|
05-16-2011, 06:21 AM
|
#30
|
|
Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
|
Thanks. That sounds like what I saw. Sort of bounded off the beach and had a hunched shape as it did it. Pond/swamp behind the beach and some pines nearby. All fits.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Hybrid Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:58 AM.
|
| |
