Go for it.

What should be talk about?

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to many beers

lol!

Anybody ever try a grocery store produce bag for a trap cover?

Hopefully this link works... Kodiak photo contest finalists on FB page...

http://www.facebook.com/kodiakalaska

So was Family Trapper close on his prediction on when this one gets started?

On a side note I finally got the dang beaver that has given me fits for a week

Good pics, the buoy theiving bear is pretty funny.

Well I was off a week or so. I said Oct 12. I won but didn't get the prize. No one wanted to play. ;0(

A few bait beaver, does a beavers sex have anything to do with tail shape? The ones on the far left in both pics were male and have short wide tails.

Yes it does. Females will generally have a narrower tail. Males broad.

Well went out grouse hunting the other day, and stopped by a little creek that I noticed was full of spawning silvers, follwed it a little ways and, lo and behold it opened up onto a lake with two lodges on it. I love unexpectedly finding new trapping locations. and whats great is it's between two other spots I'll be trapping. C'mon, November 10th!

Looks like we have a few grouse around this year also. Shot four up on the trapline the other day. Took the breasts out and fried them up. Cut the wings off to dry spread out for attractants at sets. The rest of the parts are frozen and will be to try in some of my marten boxes. Going to try a few different things this year. Have always used only beaver meat.

Happy Thanksgiving to the Canadian crowd! We are celebrating in our house... can't wait to have dinner!

And Happy Birthday Scott!

Is this thread just for you Alaskans? Or can us Canadian's post here too?

No Canadians allowed.... Sorry.

Swans flying here tonight guys. It's getting closer

trapper ron Must have moved then eh?

Right

White I thought you said he was grandfathered in?

Happy birthday Scott

Thanks pawpincher and okie, went and bought my self an aluminum ruger mk3 and a couple ak#9's, good birthday presents

Ya buddy

I orderd some ts85's a few days ago also after reading an article in ffg about using them for lynx.
Ts85 on the left #9 on the right

Never played with an 85 but they look real tall, I would be worried they would grab to high..It seems like someone here tryed them for cats and didn't like them cause of that but I can't remember? Must be getting old

That's what I thought, they have a pretty dang tall jaw. I may just have to set the pans light to try and avoid a real high catch. I do really like there dogless pan setup though.

Thank you ak. We are having our turkey day (glazed ham)tomorrow rather than Monday. Monday it is back up to the trapline to fix up more sets, cut wood, etc.

I saw 4 the other day, as well.

Finally talked my daughter into going to check traps today.I should take lady luck more often
the smile says it all,glad it wasn't to far of a pack to truck,gotta love easy beaver LOL

Sweet! You got her hooked now!

Great ! Now you have someone else to help pack gear

Sow with triplets in Bell's Flats... Sorry, pocket camera pic on max zoom and cropped down....

We had ours last night, wife is working next couple of days. Turkey, salt meat, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, savory stuffing, candied baby carrots, cranberry sauce, rolls, and lots of desert! OMG was it ever good! Turkey sandwiches for a few days too... Get to do it all over again next month, lol!

okie: looks like a good size beaver, it must be nice not having to pack out your catch:)

Pawpincher: is that very common to see them with triplets?,I have only seen twins with the black bear around here.

Triplets are pretty common and even quads once in a while. Not unusual to see the big family groups with one year olds, but by the second year it's usually down to one or two cubs. Tasty morsels for the big boars.

PawPincher:
Must of been the year of threes as we had three sows here with triplets. Must be getting close to sleepy time as we are down to just a couple bears.

see them on your way to get a burger???

They stay active here until late Nov early Dec. The last of the silver run doesn't dry up until well into Dec and sometimes lasts into early Jan. Makes things interesting for a while!

hup... good eye, they were right across the street.

OK, all this rain can stop here. If I wanted this much rain, I would live in SE Alaska. This is not what I have come to expect in the interior.

-TJ

Yea it's been comming down the last couple days, it should be snow before to long though:)

Raining cats and dogs here on the Kenai.

Fog here all day but the wind and seas came down. Went out and caught some lingcod and rockfish for the freezer. Need to go fill a goat tag but it's been pretty hard to get a weather window open long enough to get up high and hunt.

27 degrees here this morn. The 4 days of rain finally subsided. Not used to that in October. I suppose the rivers will freeze high now and we'll get to play on the big hollow ice again this winter. It's an un-nerving hum when yer traveling up the river with a 4 foot hollow under the ice, just wondering when it's going to drop out from under ya. Here's a couple pics for those who don't get to play on these hollows and tank traps. It's nice when you can see the fall outs and drop offs. It sucks when the wind covers them up with powder. That gives a whole new meaning to the word "whoops" in the trail.

That looks like a pretty small river so is it usually dry under the ice or do you have to get wet while you sit In a 4ft hole

Dang Howler, that looks like it could leave a mark!

Everything is so saturated here that a little bit of rain makes the water level come up in a matter of hours. Our beaver traps were set perfect on Sunday afternoon, by last night, they were under water.

Howler, we deal with the same thing on parts of our 'line too.

Hate that. Hope you don't get pics like that this year Howler!

Ya got a 50/50 chance of getting wet Scott, most of the time it isn't very deep. Sometimes in the spring if ya get some good overflow, it will fill up the entire channel. Yer cruising along in 2 to 5 inches of overflow and all of the sudden it's comming over the windshield when you drive into one of those fallouts. For some reason I don't take pics of those times, pre-occupied I guess. Makes life on the trapline a little exciting.

Is that October? Don't seem like much snow.

Well after chasing a beaver around my daughter went with me and she says"Dad lets go over there and try it" What do I have to lose right?Went to check and there it was just wish she could of come to check but school got in the way.
The bigger one of the two she made her own set.It has kinda cool looking feet.I know there is beaver out there with white on them.Would of been cool if he would of had it in his fur to.

AKHowler I was thinking of that picture you put up last year just the other day!

Okie I'm disappointed you aren't telling the WHOLE story, like how she totally out trapped and then schooled you on the fine art of water trapping! I hear rumor she is going to put the smack down on you during kitty season! Congrats on the critters and for making memories for those youngsters!

Woo hoo!

That is awesome. She will want more now.

Feeling pretty lucky! Got the all clear from the doc for my broken scaphoid. One piece of bone still floating around but it's too small to do anything about. Doc showed me the original CT scan. The top of the bone had shattered into about a half dozen pieces he called 'bone gravel'. Pieces too small to fix surgically. Fortunately they held their relative positions and fused. Eleven weeks of aggravation and missed opportunities, but it could have been worse!

that piece of bone floating around should "dissolve" and go away.....

like when i took the chunk off my shin bone, it was floating around...and the dr said that it would be "dissolved". and an xray later on showed that it had...

Yep, it's only 1 mm so it shouldn't last long. The weather here sucks and has sucked for about a week and a half. Goat season is ticking away. Could have hiked up above the fog Monday or Tuesday but was leery about it lifting up into the tops. Temps and dew point identical, humidity 97 to 100%.

............................. Temp.......Wind Ch....Dew pt.....Humidity
Pillar Mountain, Kodiak, AK..40.7 °F....33 °F.....40 °F......100%....North at 22.8 mph 0.00 in / hr 1204 ft 30 sec ago Normal

I got out and shot a couple grouse this last weekend. Ended up getting two and missed one. All i have is a pellet gun since i'm staying at the dorms so i couldn't get a close enough shot on the miss.

akpawpincher:
Good judgement call on the fog thing goat hunting. What I remember the most about goat hunting is how easy it was to get up there.

I went up the weekend before last with a weather forecast of 20% chance of snow showers. Visibility was great until I got up to the goat zone. As soon as I sat down to glass, snow squalls moved in (and stayed), and the visibility went to a few hundred yards. Then it started to thunder and lightning so I had to go. Burned a lot of energy just to get there so the next day when it was nice out I was too worn out to try it again. I've been waiting for a weather window ever since. The older I get the less I want to hunt goats.

Hopefully the weather improves in the next week, at least a little. I'm coming down to try to fill a goat tag AND a bear tag.

What goat tag do you have?

Pawpincher,, When my goat went down the 1st thing that popped into my mind was,,Whew I won't ever have to do this again!

That is because testosterone levels drop so much...

but they have something for that.

It's called sheep hunting.... Ask Northway about hunting in sneakers and shorts

HA HA! Goats are easy! Just a "little" heavier to pack down! I don't think I've ever sheep hunted with cots, etc. and shot sheep from the tent like you did on your FLY to the top goat hunt!

Oh here we go again...lol! Nice billy Watarrat! I've shot a few but I'm a slow learner. The next one will probably be my last... then I'll take up sheep hunting...

Nice akpawpincher! Hup's been telling you too many stories. All my goat trips were day trips, even though one did get into the night!!!

I need to get into the Tok School District so I can get some time off to do all those cool hunts like Northway!

but then you would lose your 50% geopgraphical difference and student loan payments right?

I never got my student loans repaid....I wish.

Imagine being able to hunt in the Hard Park.....

LOL! I've never really hunted the hard park, so wouldn't know what that is! I will be starting to though. No goats on our side of the hard park either. The goats in land are too small to hunt. Southeast goats are the real deal!

Geographical difference??

But you would get your PCE credits for electricity!!! HA HA HA!

First snow here today. Then turned to rain, of course. Nothing stuck on the deck, but the stuff did stick at around the 200 foot level. Pretty early, for here.

Got snow on the ground at my place. But I live out in the sticks! I gots deer hunting on the brain right now!

You got the "space ship" covered?

Tried to go grayling fishing today but the small river I went up was running slush ice and getting thicker as I went.

we ended up turning back and made it back home and I pulled the boat up on the beach and called it my last boat ride...now it can snow

On a side note yesterday I saw a huge flock of snow geese headed south not all the high but still higer than gun range if had they been just a bit lower I might of grabbed the shotgun and tried a few pot shots out in the front yard

I haven't seen geese since the first week of september...I also went for a boat ride today, went and pulled pops two white fish nets. Few females, 8 males, 3 small pike, and two coho females. Tomorrow i will pull out the boat. Hurry up and freeze over. Haha nearing the season and i am not even close to being ready...

I'm a wuss, so unless it warms up I may be done beaver trapping. Got a hankering for otter fur though, maybe chop some ice and hope for either otter or beaver.

Looks like our first "sticking" snow is in progress. time to pull the snow go in the shop and go through it.

Looks good !!

My boat works year-round, here....

Yup, ice on saltwater. (Last year. Not that cold here, YET!).

Went out on one last boat ride here, snow on the ground at the house. Headed abit south for some Silvers. Lots of fish and a few good ones. Lots of ice flowing on the rivers around here.

Thats a purdy one..lots of fight left in em I bet.

Last boat ride for me yesterday. I had ice building on the boat from the spray on the way home. We saw hundreds of mallards (tempting), but it was too windy to go back. Instead, we chopped and wired 45 pieces of beaver for wolverine buckets and stuffed onion sacks for marten bait.

Today we made 75 pounds of swan/goose sausage and watched the Packers win!

Nice silver Howler!

Dcw silvers, I did the same thing about a week ago, did you get into the greyling at all howler? We were catching some monsters on salmon spinners;)

Calling for a couple of inches of snow here tonight... but that probably doesn't mean anything. The weather forecast yesterday was 100% chance of rain... and it was beautiful. Lousy @$$ weather people. I could do a better job sitting on the john.

Well it would be a good day to take those whale parts back to where you "found" them..... I bet that spot will be a fox haven this winter.

You dont want anythng to do with fox that have been dining on whale...trust me on this one..lol

We are in full blizzard mode here,, swageing .358 bullets to .356 for the old 9x57 Mauser and swageing .366 Hornady 286 gr down to .358 for the Norma Magnum. We have a net out for suckers to put in the garden and to cook for the dogs, the boss says it gets picked today storm or not.
Hauling out propane tanks as our supplier is no more!

Yeah, I'm wondering if they didn't have a camera set up. The warning in the paper sounded ominous lol! Luckily I know better and with gas @ 4.55 a gallon I'm not about to drive a hundred miles to get in trouble... I can do that closer to home. And X2 on what Jeff said. They stink bad enough when they are eating liquid salmon. Snow showers here but a nice day so far. Wind is supposed to pick up later. May make it into the hills tomorrow or Wednesday.

Snow rained off here, and wind coming, only N40, though. Makes me want to launch the skiff!

Check out this big old bull

http://redoubtreporter.wordpress.com/201...own-in-history/

WaterRat:
I went through that also. $200 to refill a 100 pounder locally. Better stop posting those kind of photos or people will think its not all hunting, trapping and fishing in the bush.

Its $265. to refill 100 lb here

$285 for a 100lb bottle with a return and a $190 charter one way for a 10min flight from McG. Glad my kids have left the nest, only go through 2 bottles a yr now.

Great story and incredible moose!

Scouting today, hunting goats tomorrow. Windchill @ 1200 ft is 8 F today (probably 0 up a little higher). Winds are supposed to come down later and the weather reasonable for a few days. Nice here in the house with the wood stove lit!

We can purchase propane at Pile Bay for $145 but it entails a 10 hr boat ride,We charged the lodges $25 a bottle and managed to fill some of ours and fuel the boat in return for wrestling 170lb bottles for a couple of days. We have a small wind turbine and a couple of solar panels now so our fuel bill has dropped considerably! Gas is $8.25 in Kokhankok and $6.55 in Pile Bay,,we use the Honda's for running traps whenever it's possible these days.

Found my goat today. I sure hope he is in the area tomorrow. Spiking in in the morning. It will take about three hours to get close enough to go after him- if/when I find him again. Watched him for a couple of hours but the wind switched and he headed over the top of some real nasty stuff to get out of it. He is pretty safe where he's at so I'll just have to get lucky.

Good luck on the goat,,,I hope your weather is better than ours is, at least we know what direction it's coming from.

Good luck to you, be safe!

Hope to see some pics when you get home, be safe up there.

I get 3 days off of work and the weather is pretty crappy, a lot of snow and low visibility. I did manage to take 1 shot at a ram that was quite a ways off, maybe if I had a spotter I would have shot a few more times. I also seen one wolf running around about 1 mile away from where I was at, man Im getting excited for my favorite time of the year.
Tomorrow Im going to go and look for the ram again, he looked to be a full curl easy. More snow tomorrow, time to bust out the snowmachine.

Nice Nunamiut, GL with the ram. Lucky... Only got an inch of snow here... I won't be riding for awhile...

Given the traffic this thread gets Paul should associate some special advertising with it for selling Dobbin's lures. ;0)

Hey nunamiut, somthing you may want to try next year, get your .300 threaded and put a quality muzzle brake on it, I never really thought about them until this year and all I have to say is wow, it cuts recoil and muzzle jump down to nothing, in turn I can spot my own shot at 200yd on up. It makes adjustment a lot faster not having to wait for a spotter to give you a call.

Speaking of dobbins lures, I just got some "skunky Backbreaker" I'm going to try for cats and marten this year, it must be some impressive stuff if it comes packed in dirt to hold the smell down

I filled up the heating fuel drum today 207 gallons cost $1,16.54 ...so how many of you guys want to move out here and get in on some of this good hunting,trapping and fishing.

That skunky Backbreaker is my number one! snow on the ground at my house tonight!

That is cheaper than it is here in Bethel!!!

Thats at $7.56 gln not counting tax

THen you have a typo in there somewhere besides just the comma and decimal.

Man I feel like I got a good deal at $4.27 now

$7.85 gallon at the pump for unlead, and i think $7.50 Gallon for heating oil. Firewood sells for $300.00 a cord. 1 quart Castol oil is 8-9 dollars. 100 pound bottle of propane is $190.00 each. Got it all done beside the bulk unlead fuel for trapping season...

Good catch..it was $1,616.54

Plant a tree for your tomorrow!

I have a pile of wood and burn it daily, I dont go get trees I wait till the spring flood and they come to me

Waterat:
Watch out for those small wind turbines they attract predators.

Yikes! My dad said something about that a while back, might be why our wind generator only lasted a couple years.

I know of some moose hunters that were up in Holy Cross that paid $4.25 a gallon for unleaded. They were hauling it down from FAI.

Holy Cross is not real moose hunter friendly if you know what I mean..or at least they werent when they kicked everyone off the corp lands back in the early 90s.

they are now in the process of trying to close up the Paridise sanctuary on the Innoko.

Thats a pretty cool sequence of that young eagle Bob.

What's the biggest 'Rat house of pushup you've ever seen up here?

AKScott, that doesnt sound like a bad idea. I can never call my shots with the .300 at any distance. Muzzle jump is pretty bad with that high caliber.