Mossback,

I've only seen two fishers in all of my trips.  Both were sighted at a campsite one afternoon on Lake Agnes back in the summer of 1990.  They came back to our camp later that night & woke my brother who immediately exited his tent and proceeded to chase them through the woods with a hatchet (he thought it was a bear... still not a good idea).

I've only ever run across a couple bears in any of the parks and those were at a distance, rolling rocks searching for bugs or something on a shoreline or hilltop.  I believe I've heard a few cubs bawling in the woods a few times.

Wolves?  I have been VERY close to entire packs howling within a 100 yards more than a time or two but have yet to actually see one in the wild.  Your 35-40 pounder seems like a real "lightweight" wolf (even if he was scraggly-looking); are you sure it wasn't a coyote?

Ran into an American Mink scrambling along the shoreline of Pickerel Lake only a couple week ago.  That may have been a first for me.  A real curious critter.  He stopped to consider me passing by, stared for half a minute, then resumed his shoreline trek seemingly quite unconcerned about me.

Later,

Jimbo   8-)