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maybe he had 2 many cougars..
 
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08-02-2010, 06:19 PM
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http://www.northlandoutdoors.com/eve...blisher_ID/40/ The one in this article looks a lot like the trap that was described....... I recon these guys would know what they are doing
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08-02-2010, 06:59 PM
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08-02-2010, 08:05 PM
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nothing wrong with that call Jethro - as there's NO cougar.
you'd assume they'd know what they're doing though (well, you'd hope so).  what i find interesting is they're shutting the whole park due to CREDITABLE cougar sightings. i don't think DEC will close Fitzgerald Nat Pk based on Dowelly and Dawson's sighting.
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08-02-2010, 10:26 PM
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got me there Dave.
still as rare as hen's teeth though. typical internet rush, i should not have said never. rather, just the like a photo of a wild one, almost/basically never. being young (just left it's mum) and very hungry (desperate enough to kill stock and return to feed) helped enticing that cat into the trap. it also states the cat, being young (not very smart), had trouble establishing it's own range - hence the temptation of it to have to take out an alpaca. hitting one in a car, trapping one, getting a video of a wild one - well, not quite never, it happens every blue moon, but basically never. to put in perspective though, arguably the most secretive animal on earth, considering the amount of people in north america and the number of cougars (6000 in USA and more in canada), such events are incredibly rare. a pittance. relate that to a handful of aussies, lots of remote bush and only a handful of cats - probability sez it's still a long way from happening here (photo,shot,trapped etc). i couldn't see a cat here falling for a trap like that hungry young cat, struggling to establish it's own range. not with a million dumb roos in our scrub for tucker, and no pressure from other competing males. okay, i've learn something about the trapping aspect. don't believe it would ever work here and it's still almost impossible in USA, but it has caught cougar. i stand corrected and should watch my abrupt generalisations. did get ya's googling though. how about the shooting without dog teams and photo's/video of wild ones (without radio collars and scientists) taken by hunters/bushwalkers. such captures are like winning lotto in usa.
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great read - D & D man i'm going to have to keep my eyes open next tme i fish that spot.
on a related topic anyone watch the doco on the snow leapord ..... no wthat was a tricky buggar to film.
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I think my cousin filmed that doco, was it a recent one or the one from a few years ago that was the first time they'd been captured on film.
Mitch ended up with altitude sickness during the filming and can't climb or fly anymore, poor bugger's on a pension living in Tassie now. It'd suck loving climbing so much, living around mountains and not being able to get up 'em.
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18-02-2010, 08:32 PM
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yeah thats the one - first time ever on film. they went to rediculious lengths to make it happen to. sounds like he's paying for it now but.... great shots, hope he comes good eventually.
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I know the lads have been east all this week.Maybe they will bring back some footage
.I think Stu,Steve and I saw a cougar at the Walpole pub so I took the barmaids vasaline rubed it on the wine barrell,put the right tunes on the dukebox,and what do you know we trapped a large cougar  .It was very funny but maybe you had to be there
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Vern, I think I also witnessed your catch on that Cougar, so im hoping your wife doesn't browse these forums....heheheh
We just got back from a trip of complete up's and down.... Ups...finding out that big kilo plus fish in one system would only eat surface lures....after gettting smoked on all my surface lures I finally subdued a kilo specimen only to be outdone by dowell nailing an estimated 1.2-3kilo fish on surface...was very exiting! Down's...dowell's clutch dying 100k's from the nearest farm in the middle of no where...lucky the nicest farmer in the world was out checking his fences so we only had to walk 15k's for help instead of 100... Oh and hte 500 tow trip back to albs was fun...gonna have to wait for the bill to see just how fun it was...warm red tins made the trip exiting though! JD...
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