CHAPTER VIII. 
HOW TO LOCATE AND TRAP 
THE FISHER 
You will only find the fisher in the mountains where squirrels, 
snowshoe rabbits and birds are numerous. You will notice where 
they kill the squirrels, birds and rabbits. They travel all animal 
trails and they use logs to travel on and use the highest point of view 
to locate their prey and the lower to sneak up on them. You will 
also notice where they go in the holes in the base of trees and bluffs 
of rocks. You will notice where they find a tree that has fallen and 
lodged against another tree, they invariably walk up such trees. 
You should make snow sheds for vonr traps and bait. On such 
logs as they travel and use such natural sheds as you find along the 
trail they travel. You should conceal your traps with worm dust 
or pulverized rotten wood. In setting on trails under snow sheds 
you should place the bait two feet from the trap. In making log 
sets you should place the bait opposite the trap on each side of the 
log, on the log. To make what is called a “tree set” you cut around 
the bark, say one foot circle, and take the bark out whole. Then 
chop the notch to receive your trap. Place the trap in the notch 
and place the bait under the trap, then cut a hole one arid one-half 
inches in diameter in the bark that will come directly opposite the 
tread pan of the trap. Place the bark back just as you have removed 
it and make it fast to the tree with small finishing nails. The trap 
chain should be fastened with a fence staple inside the notch. The 
fisher will stick his paw through the hole in the bark and in so doing 
he comes in contact with the tread pan of the trap. 
The No. 2 double spring is the most desirable trap for fisher. 
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