Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #5
[Re: yukontrapper]
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11/02/11 10:12 PM
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trapper ron
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Here is the Skinning shed 8'x8'x8' I built this fall, been good so far, lil small but cost effective when fuel is $6 a gallon for fuel. So see how it works out this winter. Also using a bravo to make it cost effective when gasoline is $7 a gallon. How big is your guys skinning sheds? My new fur shed at camp,when it is right side up :), is 10 x 12 x 8 high with wood heat. Many years ago, when I decided to get trapping again after my boyhood adventures I had and interesting episode. I caught a mink and set up an apple box as a fur table just inside the door and proceeded to pelt that mink. My wife never haven seen a mink before was watching with interest. Yep, I hit the gland, first and last time for any pelting in the house.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #5
[Re: Bushman]
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11/03/11 03:02 AM
11/03/11 03:02 AM
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fishermann222
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Yukon those jiggers would be pretty easy to use on holes that far apart. I use to watch the guys on Great slave set their nets and was always amazed how they'd follow the tapping and find their line. Thousand year old technology and still working. I bet those ice cold fish are delicious. I watched guys out of thunder bay do this one year. Had a 50 fathom net strung under the ice, and just found the "tapping" and chopped a hole and there was the other end.
I survived the Tman crash of '06
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #5
[Re: white17]
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11/03/11 12:55 PM
11/03/11 12:55 PM
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Well two days ago it was blowing so hard we had white caps in the bird bath. Now it's frozen solid! Still can't get to the line. Really need to drop off traps to lighten the load in the skiff for the opener.
Just doing what I want now.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #5
[Re: white17]
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11/03/11 03:50 PM
11/03/11 03:50 PM
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Aknative
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I think my the tapping they're talking about a jig that swims through the water as you pull on a line through the hole you put the tapper into the water through. With each pull and swim stroke it taps against the ice, and when you have it as far as you want you locate the tap and chop a hole through which you retrive the tapper and then pull the net through both holes...I think that's how it works, but if someone can explain it better please do!
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #5
[Re: Aknative]
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11/03/11 05:20 PM
11/03/11 05:20 PM
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yukonjeff
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I am also confused about the tapping thing. here we use the pole with a floater tied on a short string just enough to let it pop up in next hole its looks like the bouy poping up in jaws. we have strong current in the river so you need to put some english on it to hit the next hole with the floater. the main line is attached to the floater and threaded under the ice to the next hole,when it pops up we just untie the string,pull the pole back out the way it came and retie the string on and thread it through to the next hole,once you have the whole string under,you can just tie one end of the net on and pull it under the ice using the main line and tie a pole on both ends and tie them to the support sticks frozen into the ice. when checking the net just untie the far end from a pole making sure not to let it loose and tie the line off on the net and go back and feed the net out the hole on the other end,and simply pull on the line to set the net back under the ice and retie your poles in place. I was just on my way out to check the net ,but we are in a MAJOR STORM now and had to turn back we are getting a good dump of snow. here is a pic from last year.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #5
[Re: white17]
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11/03/11 05:24 PM
11/03/11 05:24 PM
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otterman
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I have done it like Jeff in the past but had a friend now deceased who had one of the tappers being talked about. The nice thing about them is you only have to drill 2 holes if I rememebr correctly. I only heard him talk about using it and he has been gone for several years.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #5
[Re: white17]
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11/03/11 05:52 PM
11/03/11 05:52 PM
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fishermann222
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yes, it swims out when you "jig it" and it doesn't come back, it catches on the bottom of the ice, so every "jig" of the rope, it goes further out. Saw guys running 50 fathom of line in a very short time, it is quite slick, I have never seen them for sale anywhere, but it seems the old time commercial underwater netters still have them around.
It would probably not work very well in the rivers with currents, but on Lake superior in Thunder Bay, it was amazing how well it worked.
I survived the Tman crash of '06
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #5
[Re: white17]
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11/04/11 01:46 AM
11/04/11 01:46 AM
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otterman
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I know they will work on the sloughs in the river with little or no current were the whitefish and pike tend to hang here
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