This morning I got up at seven to do some of my stuff before I went to check my traps. I needed to get up at seven this morning because I needed to do something and I needed to do it before I went to check my traps and my uncle was leaving later in the morning and I needed to make sure I had time to get the thing done and still have time to go up and check my traps. It was not very light when I left so I took my head lamp with me so I could see in the forest better. The ice was starting to melt so I had to be a little more careful not to brake through and fall in to the ponds. When I got to my first set I saw that there had been something there that took some of the bait. I had a trail camera set up there so I pulled the SD card and reset the trap and went up to the next set. It was starting to get a little bit lighter but I still kept my head lamp on so I could see a bit better. There was still some snow in places in the forest but for most of the forest the snow and ice was gone. I went on deeper in to the forest I went over some logs and past a creek and then I was at my second and last set. Once I got to where I could see the set I saw that there was something hanging there that was not the bait. Once I got a bit closer I could see that it was an american marten. I took care of the marten and reset the trap and took down the camera that I had set up at that set. Once I got home I looked at the SD card that I took from the camera that was at the first set and I had some videos of a marten taking the bait out the trap. Then I looked at the SD card from the camera that was at the set that caught the marten. When I looked at the card though there were photos or videos on there so I decided that the batteries were to low for the camera to trigger at night. Later in the day I skinned the marten.
- Question was the marten I got on video the same one that I caught?
- Question are there more marten where I trap?
- Question will I catch another marten?
