The best time to catch minks with photography generally is when they are pre-occupied with fishing, in my experience.
They can pop up from hidden spaces, then disappear & reappear some distance away.
This mink, obviously, had an appointment with a favourite fishing hole so having popped up from a log pile, it dashed off to places far, far away. :)
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