I love fish and rice! Had some white fish and rice! Of course I love Florida ice cream too. Florida ice cream: grits cooked with bacon grease and butter, seasoned with Cajun seasoning, add lots of various cheeses, fry fish and shrimp ( In cornmeal of course! ), chop up the fish and shrimp with cleaver, add to grits. Crumble crispy bacon on top. Add chopped onions and various peppers to taste.

Burbot is one of my favorite eating fresh water fish. So easy to fillet also as there are not pin bones. Oh and rice goes well with it.

Where'd you get the track? I need a replacement for my tundra and I think I'd love that track.

Edit: never mind found one.

Started trapping neighborhood wolves with limited sets at Christmas break. They have cooperated! Unfortunately they are not worth more than the moose they won't be eating as they all support healthy louse populations.

Wow you clobbered them. Nice work. Too bad about the quality of fur. Thanks for getting after them nonetheless. ;0)

Way to go Nook, you're helping the moose for sure. Sometimes you just have to grin and bear it with the lice problem. It's a shame though, it looks like they would have been nice wolves. We had a pack a few years ago that had them. We killed them all and a new pack moved in without the infestation. I feel your pain, but good on you for doing the right thing.

Good Job Nooksack I know you enjoy getting after them but it hurts when it doesn't pay squat

Nice catches! You really hit the wolves hard. The pack out by my cabin is infested with lice or mange too. Out of 8 last year there was only one with healthy fur. The one I got so far this year is looking better. I killed 7 adults last year so maybe the pups will be better looking. Either way I will continue to shoot or trap every one I see. If they are bad enough I can hand them in whole to ENR. The one I caught last week had bloodshot jelly on its throat so maybe the others were biting at him in the trap since they did actually eat a trapped one last year!

Thanks guys!
Your right Otterman I do enjoy it but the money lost starts to add up.
I'll try and catch as many as I can with the limited time I have to trap but unfortunately even some of the coyotes like this one my son I a picked up a week ago have lice.

Do the lousy coyote pelts look like the lousy wolf pelts? Same problems?

Boy what a shame on the conditions of those wolves down there!!

Drasselt, the coyotes don't seem to react quite the same. Not greasy and stink like wolves, but rubbed on the shoulders and back. I don't look them over to well since I'm not salvaging skull , possible cape and claws.

Has any body ever seen rabbits move in to a area . 2 weeks ago there was rabbit sign on the line but last run it was like thousands got dropped in spots .I thought it was caribou digging up tundra then I realized it was rabbits . There was areas I went through and it was like locus moved through. I have never seen anything like this before I will take pics next run .

Rabbits move when they deplete their browse, just like cats move when they deplete their rabbits. When the rabbits (hares) start eating spruce needles and spruce bark you know the end of the cycle is near and you will also find dead hares here and there.

Wow! You slammed them wolves nooksack!

OK maybe I have caught some like that with kind of a thin line of weak fur or matted/knotted line down the middle of the back between the shoulders in the hackles but nowhere as nasty as the wolves get it.

Question does a moose bleed some out of it's head when it drops an antler? I found a drop horn and followed the tracks around a little seeing if the other was there somewhere and there was some blood where the moose had bedded. Seems likely to me.

I saw that back in 1979. Overnight ! Where there were none....the next morning they were all over the place. I believe they had to come from higher terrain as I had seen no tracks prior to that at my elevation

Some but not a large amount by any means and not always it depends on how dead things were at the base when it drop at least that's how I understand it

Did the rabbit population crash after this white?