The other day I went to check some marten traps I had set out. Once I got there there was a half a squirrel in a trap I had set for weasels. Something had eaten part of it. and the bait was gone from my marten trap. I had been having something going and getting bait out of the marten trap for quite a while by that point and I even had a trail camera set up on it but it was not working so I took it home and switched it out for another one I had. I figured out that the one camera I had set up on it before would not work at night because the batteries were to low. The next day I went back up there and the bait was gone again but this time went I check the trail camera I saw that I had gotten photos of some thing. I switch cameras out and set the bait back up and went home. Once I got home I looked at the photos on the SD card and saw that the animal that had been taking my bait was a american marten. I was starting to think that there were no marten around that area but once I saw that photos on the camera of the marten taking the bait it gave me hope that I might caught one. The next day I went up there and fixed the snares that I am using in hopes that I will catch the marten. I set the snares up on a leaning pole or on a pole between to trees and set the bait in the middle of the two snares. I made the snares about the size of my clenched fist and put it about three fingers high from the top of the log and had the anker wire wrapped around a small standing tree and had the snare loop hanging over the pole, but after I saw the marten push the snare aside I put the anker wire on the pole and had the snare going across the pole.
- Question were did the marten go?
- Question will I catch the marten?
- Question were did the marten stash the food?
