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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: Malukchuk]
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01/05/17 01:29 PM
01/05/17 01:29 PM
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North Slope
Nunamiut
trapper
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trapper
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North Slope
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Warbles are out already. Family and I went out caribou hunting the other day. We did get two, lack of snow and ice kept us from hunting more. As I skinned the animal in my shop yesterday I noticed the warbles are already starting to grow. It's been in the teens upper 20/30 for the past three weeks. Depressing for January weather. Copy that! Warm weather around here. A aklak(brown bear) has been making tracks all over our country. January and its still out! Alaay!
If it was easy, everybody would be doing it!
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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01/05/17 01:49 PM
01/05/17 01:49 PM
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Posts: 148
North Slope
Nunamiut
trapper
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trapper
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North Slope
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Man work has been super busy with the power plant being short handed. I have been working 6 days a week for a while now, and not time for fun stuff or family time. I did however, modify some of my 330's, I took the chains off and attached cable with furrels and the big key rings which will cut my setting time down Im sure.  We have been getting the back end of the storm tha hit eastern Alaska, so the extra snow coverage is nice. The land was still barren for the most part it seemed like it, but, long distance traveling is possible. I went out for a short ride, up and over a pass where I was trapping a few years back.    Next week Im going to pull in some #9's and get them ready for boiling. Guys from the ville have been catching amaguq(wolf) and qavvik(wolverine) close to home, so that and all the awesome pics and stories you guys supply the site with is getting to be a little too much for this trapperman. One group of guys trapped a pure white fully grown male amaguq at the landfill. Its a beautiful animal! All white, no hints of other colors anywhere on the body, first of its kind I have seen come out of this village. Stay safe out their!
Last edited by Nunamiut; 01/05/17 01:51 PM.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: yukonjeff]
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01/05/17 01:52 PM
01/05/17 01:52 PM
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Alaska
Hupurest
"Andy S wannabe"
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"Andy S wannabe"
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The one today was kind of small, we do get some good sized ones. I get ones as big as can fit their heads in a 5.5 stretched mesh .I got one last week that was as big as the one posted on here from CA.
The guys with the big Lush fish traps get some bigger ones. isn't it about the time to get some of those nasty sucker faced vampire eels? or was that earlier?
I'll take wolves over idiots any day.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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01/05/17 11:06 PM
01/05/17 11:06 PM
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40 years Alaska, now Oregon
alaska viking
"Made it two years not being censored"
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"Made it two years not being censored"
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40 years Alaska, now Oregon
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Calling for 70 MPH winds here for the next many days. Am locked out of the line.  . Going to send my first paltry catch to FHA tomorrow. Hope for the best on marten.
Just doing what I want now.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: Hupurest]
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01/07/17 02:59 AM
01/07/17 02:59 AM
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Thailand
yukonjeff
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Thailand
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The one today was kind of small, we do get some good sized ones. I get ones as big as can fit their heads in a 5.5 stretched mesh .I got one last week that was as big as the one posted on here from CA.
The guys with the big Lush fish traps get some bigger ones. isn't it about the time to get some of those nasty sucker faced vampire eels? or was that earlier? Yea used to be late October like Halloween,but getting later more like mid Novemeber now. The Burbot feast on the eels and get fat from them, good bait if you hook line them.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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01/10/17 04:01 PM
01/10/17 04:01 PM
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North Slope
Nunamiut
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trapper
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North Slope
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I went out and broke trail into some new to me country. There were caribou sign, wolf and wolverine also. Im going to dye some #9's tonight at work and hopefully make a few sets this weekend or next when I bring some supplies for some skiers going from Noatak to Kaktovik. These valleys look pretty sheepy!    Safe travels!
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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01/10/17 06:42 PM
01/10/17 06:42 PM
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NWT
Ryan McLeod
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Those willow creeks look like pretty good wolverine spots Nunamiut! Looks good!
If you take care of the land the land will take care of you
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
#5776446
01/17/17 11:29 PM
01/17/17 11:29 PM
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Posts: 5,599
40 years Alaska, now Oregon
alaska viking
"Made it two years not being censored"
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"Made it two years not being censored"
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Posts: 5,599
40 years Alaska, now Oregon
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Rice Rules!!! And don't let mike fool you. He loves it so much, it crosses his tongue twice, every time he eats it!  Jeff, that's the most civil meal I have seen you eat in a long time.
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