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  • wildbrookies
    Member
    • Sep 2004
    • 2706
    #1

    Strange finding

    While my brother and I were on the trail friday.My brother yelled hey!!!!look at this!!!!!Oh my God,I said as we both looked down and stared at this huge porcupine dead on the trail.We could see no signs of physical injury.Would anybody know what would stand up to a porcupine,especially to actually take its life? Maybe old age?

    WB
    "Get your mind off trout,if you can.I know they`ve got you.I can see it. Every fraternity of sufferers knows its brothers.Trout hook men;men don`t hook trout.Better try and throw the hook while you can.By the time you`re a grown man there probably won`t be a pure trout healthy enough to fiddle with"... Quote from Emerson in the book "The Earth Is Enough"by Harry Middleton
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    • lumberzac
      Beware of the Lumberzac
      • Apr 2004
      • 1730
      #2
      From what I've heard, Fishers are fond of porcupine meat. The attack the unprotected belly of the porcupine and when done essentially leave nothing but a hollowed out body. The porcupine ends up looking like a coon skin cap.
      A man needs to believe in something. I believe I'll go hiking.

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        • redhawk
          Senior Resident Curmudgeon
          • Jan 2004
          • 10929
          #3
          Yep Fishers are fond of porcupine meat. But if there were no signs of injury it might have either died of natural causes or perhaps some gastronomical malady.
          "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Lyndon B. Johnson

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            • marzrw
              Member
              • Mar 2005
              • 1571
              #4
              We didn't get close enough to examine it. Forensic science is n't our forte. Actually, don't know what our forte is, but forensics, no.
              "The way I see it, you're hooked.Trout have you. Another soul lost." Elias Wonder, The Earth is Enough by Harry Middleton

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                • wildbrookies
                  Member
                  • Sep 2004
                  • 2706
                  #5
                  I was thinking ,maybe, as we approached the scene, we spooked off the animal(fischer)that made the kill.Just a theory of course.It did look like it had been dragged.Judging by its elongated body posture.Thanks guys for the info,I did`nt know fischers enjoyed the meat of the porcupine.

                  WB
                  "Get your mind off trout,if you can.I know they`ve got you.I can see it. Every fraternity of sufferers knows its brothers.Trout hook men;men don`t hook trout.Better try and throw the hook while you can.By the time you`re a grown man there probably won`t be a pure trout healthy enough to fiddle with"... Quote from Emerson in the book "The Earth Is Enough"by Harry Middleton

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                    • adkmountainken
                      Member
                      • Jun 2005
                      • 107
                      #6
                      ok, got to chime in here. believe it or not fishers attack porcupines head on and attack the face and throat. it is a myth that they attack porc's from underneath. there was an auctaul documentry done that showed this. also read where hunters have witnessed it. i have caught a couple fisher with quills in their face and head which would support this.
                      longbows,flintlocks,trapping,and fly rods, its not just what i do its who i am!!

                      not all those who wander are lost!

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                        • marzrw
                          Member
                          • Mar 2005
                          • 1571
                          #7
                          Thanks for the possible conclusion to our CSI episode in the north woods. WB wanted to know if he could tie any flies from the quills... Any ideas???? Maybe an actual Porcupine Quill Gordon...
                          "The way I see it, you're hooked.Trout have you. Another soul lost." Elias Wonder, The Earth is Enough by Harry Middleton

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                            • adkmountainken
                              Member
                              • Jun 2005
                              • 107
                              #8
                              better hope ya don't line the fish, might just stick to him!!! Quill Gordan, lol!!!!!
                              longbows,flintlocks,trapping,and fly rods, its not just what i do its who i am!!

                              not all those who wander are lost!

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                                • pondhopper
                                  Have creel; will travel
                                  • Nov 2003
                                  • 749
                                  #9
                                  I like Redhawk's "gastonomical malady" theory. Porcs love licking the salt & anti-freeze off of vehicles. That is if, it was less than a 1/4 mile from the road, they don't generally travel too far. Anti-freeze=poison.

                                  Several years ago, some friends went into Spruce Lake. When they returned, they found that a porc had eaten their fan belt off. Luckily, they had some rope to fashion a makeshift fan belt out of and make it out to the nearest garage. Not the first time that I've heard of that happening............
                                  --"Pete You***?!, Pete You***'s grandson?!...That name is nearly sacred & uttered with awe in THIS house!" : The late Dr. Reed's wife, upon entering her house & being introduced- so to converse with her husband about the old days, a little before he died. The kind of greeting you'll never forget & reinforces your image of the hero you never met. --

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                                    • Hugh
                                      Member
                                      • Feb 2005
                                      • 203
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by marzrw
                                      Thanks for the possible conclusion to our CSI episode in the north woods. WB wanted to know if he could tie any flies from the quills... Any ideas???? Maybe an actual Porcupine Quill Gordon...
                                      Coffin Fly for one,plus the realistic tiers make good use of them. Hugh

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