I knew I should have bought a plow for the atv this year...lol! I don't have any sets out, pulled yesterday... so let 'er rip! A little snow will be a nice change, but it probably won't last long. You get what you were after last week?

Dang that thing is FAT! Must be eating really good!

From late November until the end of the season they pretty much all look like that... Smell fishy too.

Got this mean little kitten today snarled and growled like it was 10 feet tall!

APP- Dang them critters are eating good! I'll stick to my interior dieting critters. Haven't really caught any really fat critters. Love em' BL-22 Brownings. Have one, really should bring the ole gal back out in the woods. Maybe my son can have it when he gets a little bigger.

Akassain= Nice kitty. Man can't wait till my work week is over i can go check the line, then go recon the old line for critter sign.

I hate them fat fox fortunately not all of ours are like that but maybe 30-40% and not quite that fat either but still to darn fat

Akpp, you need to get some latex on those mitts!

I'm with STT. Put some gloves on! AKPP, have you ever tried sawdust when you flesh them? Works like a charm.

I hear you about the gloves... I can't wear them and do anything. Never could. Even charter and commercial fishing I have to go bare handed. Unless it is really cold and then I use the deckhand gloves sparingly. Hands get all crampy and useless. No rabies concerns here fortunately but they would smell better at the end of the day...lol! I have used sawdust in the past and it does work good for getting a grip! Since these are all going in to be tanned I have worked out a process that works pretty good. I knife flesh them down pretty clean, split/turn every thing and salt them good. Roll them up a let set over night and then the next day take the spoon to them from head to tail. Re-salt, roll up and let set another 24 then shake that out, rub a little fresh salt in and hang to dry. It takes care of the vast majority of the grease and I don't get any slippage. Labor intensive though... I should charge more!
various stages of drying...

APP- Dang them critters are eating good! I'll stick to my interior dieting critters. Haven't really caught any really fat critters. Love em' BL-22 Brownings. Have one, really should bring the ole gal back out in the woods. Maybe my son can have it when he gets a little bigger.

Akassain= Nice kitty. Man can't wait till my work week is over i can go check the line, then go recon the old line for critter sign.

Your son will be asking for the rest of the the guns in no time! My boy is 11 got em a moose rife and he now wants to use my 375. They grow up to fast enjoy while you can.

Wow lots of work to degrease a fox! Good job on em though they look clean!

Akassain- :-) haha ya got that right, started him with home made bow, now has a compound. Pellet/bb guns now has chipmunk .22 and a single shot 410. I drilled the rules of arms into them. As they are tools and they are dangerous. I maintain saftey rules with them at all times. My daughter and my son are going to join me on the bear stand hunts and moose hunting next fall. They sure do grow up fast though...

How true it is my two boys apparently have mine all divided up waiting for me to croke I told them by the time I die they will only get 1 each as all the grand kids and great grands will each get one too

Houston the eagle has landed... About a thousand or so around town right now.
Pics by my friend Mary Swanson...

Holy smokes! That is alot of eagles in one spot! Pretty cool!

LOL I am thinking an exposed bait set would be a REALLY bad idea

Looks like our dump, here. By the way, AKPP, I hear Pillar is rolling rocks at the cars again. Did that while I was there. Also around Gibson Cove, back when the Hakala was there.

So many eagles! We are starting to have them here on the lower Yukon see a few here and there.

They congregate out at the Pasagshak River in the fall until the last of the salmon dry up in early to mid January (late coho run) and then they all descend on the town and dump. The pics were taken in the boat channel. Bad light so the pic quality isn't too good. The other day as I drove by cannery row on my way to do my checks there were at least 500 just on the cannery roofs and every tree was full. Pretty cool. AV, I went through the slide area right after the rocks took out the car. They were still cleaning it up. Pretty big rocks, end table size. They came down the middle of the slide and bounced over the retainer wall and landed right in front of some poor young lady... kaboom...

Fish, got that right!