Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Done seen a mink chasing a prairie dog this morning. .

fought a mink on 6lb test mono one time. he broke off and runnedoft with my 12 inch brown.

Some years ago I shot a moose in the afternoon. We quartered it and went back to the truck for a toboggan and packs. There were fresh bear tracks in the area so we had to get it out that night or risk losing it. When we got back to the moose after dark, a pine marten had staked a claim on it. It was hilarious watching his antics as he tried to run us off. The hide was lying there frozen to the snow. My partner was at one end of it and the marten grabbed the other end and tried to take off with it. You can guess how successful it was at dragging a frozen down moose hide. He had his teeth in it and was trying to drag it backwards, throwing snow with all 4. When we were done and leaving, he was up on the rib cage shaking a fist at us - "and don't come back you thieving scumballs!"

Mink run in herds... Got this while steelhead fishing last year.

Great video. Well except the shirtless guy at the end…

Mink are hard on yard birds. Little things can get into a coop and turn a bunch of chickens into meat pretty quick.

They sure don't need much of an opening.

Smelly bastards too.

Steve
I had one swim up to my canoe and try to get in while I was duck hunting on the Willamette. It was a little weird

I could believe that.

ya never know.. maybe it was just wanting to rape a Prairie Dog because it was horny and prairie dogs were all that it was seeing at the time..

I've seen a raccoon humping a beagle before...and the beagle just stood there and let it do it...

I was sitting on a log on a PA trout stream tying a fly or leader or something and had been pretty quiet. Heard nails on the log and looked left to see this mink hauling ass down the log. Ran right across my legs and into the water at the other end. It was over so quickly I didn't even have time to jump or even make a move or hardly make as sound (which was less like a scream and more like a giant intake of breath).

As noted, mink are found near water, usually. Prairie dogs not, usually. I'd strongly suspect that what was seen was a ferret, which live in PD colonies and prey on the "dogs" all the time. Here in Utah and Wyoming, the conservation depts are trying to re-introduce the endangered black-footed ferret to PD colonies to protect the species.

No, it was absolutely a mink. Goodness. I'll try to get a picture of the area someday.

Saw an otter grab a silver salmon which had been snagged and was hanging in the current. Otter won, breaking the guys line and ran up under a brush pile to eat.

They don't stand up to 44mag very well.........It was personal.

Last year I seed an otter chewing on a roadkill deer, just an otter's throw from the Missouri River. I regret not starting a thread...

Boomer, I defer to your eyewitness account.

Well, yah.

It's common for people to mix up mink and pine martens. They're about the same size and general shape but martens are a bit more like a cat and have bigger ears and fuzzy tails. Otherwise they look very much alike.

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Although I have spent time in the right places, I have never seen a marten. Buddy said he saw what had to be a ringtail in SW Oregon. Haven't seen one of those either. Or a dall or stones sheep or muskox or polar bear...

Fisher for reference.

Pugs,
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