Maine Fisher Cat Season

Fishers often are mistakenly referred to as fisher cats but they are not cats.

Maine fisher cat season. Better check your seasons than walk home with a ticket or worse. Since it is a nocturnal animal it hunts in the night and is not easily spotted in the day. The fur of the fisher varies seasonally being denser and glossier in the winter. The fisher is one of the only animals that can successfully attack kill and eat a porcupine.

1 see muskrat trapping for information on trapping muskrat after the general trapping season in areas where the beaver season is open. Giving an occasional chirp on my turkey call when i saw movement in the distance heading my way. The fisher cat animals live and hunt alone and only socialize during their mating season. To sign up for free alerts please click on the sign up button at the top of the page.

Although many people call them fisher cats the name is inappropriate. Big game hunting season 2015 2016. Here is a small clip of the 2017 season. Wmds 1 11 14.

November 15 2020 december 31 2020. Year long trail camera in the north maine woods moose bear fisher marten lynx deer coyote duration. Adult males are 90 to 120 cm 35 47 in long and weigh 3 5 to 6 0 kilograms 8 13 lb. During the summer the color becomes more mottled as the fur goes through a moulting cycle.

The fisher cat is a nocturnal animal and the most fisher cat screams and fisher cat screeches can be heard at night. Adult females are 75 to 95 cm 30 37 in long and weigh 2 0 to 2 5 kg 4 6 lb. Joe holland fishing 4 309 views. Find all of your maine hunting seasons information right here.

Fisher have become more adapted to living in forests in more suburban areas and are responsible for preying on local house cats. November 1 2020 december 31 2020. If you are trapping in southern maine mdifw would like to know. Wmds 12 13 15 29.

They are fishers not fisher cats no matter what the double a baseball team in new hampshire calls itself. They are neither members of the feline family nor do they catch fish. Upland hunting season 2015 2016. Other matters of attention new england cottontail rabbits.

Went hunting one spring morning in york maine for turkey.