(Marguerite Lanthier/Daily News) Eryk Grenier, right, of Vulcan caught this fisher in early December in the Faithorn area of Menominee County. He was assisted in setting the traps by his 7-year-old daughter, Kaycee, center, a first grader at Norway Elementary School who was "really, really excited" about the catch. At left is Breanna Brolin, Michigan Department of Natural Resources general office assistant, who helped in registering the fisher. Though he first got into trapping about three decades ago under the guidance of his great-uncle, David Trepanier, this is the first fisher Grenier has managed to bag. At 13 pounds and 33 inches, not including the tail, it is considered large even for a male, he said. "It's definitely the catch of a lifetime," Grenier said, adding he's having the fisher mounted at Journey's End Studio of Taxidermy in Norway. He used a 220 Conibear trap. The skull has been sent to a lab in Lansing that should be able to tell how old this member of the weasel family was. Once considered extirpated — extinct — in Michigan, fishers were reintroduced in the Ottawa National Forest in western Upper Peninsula in the early 1960s with the hope they might help control porcupine populations, said Cody Norton, the Michigan DNR's bear, furbearer and small game specialist. Another release took place in the late 1980s-early '90s farther east in the U.P. Numbers showed declines in the late 1990s through the 2000s but now appear to be trending upwards again, Norton said. Its reputation as a porcupine predator is well-earned, he added, with the majority of the fishers brought in to the DNR having quills in the face and chest.