How thick is the river ice there now? Heard it’s not yet fully frozen in Pilot. Everyone there just use nets or do some folks build a big trap for the lush?

Its just freezing up now. Ice is about 4 " or less. still some open holes.

Some here set big pots with funnels about the size of commercial crab pot, a pole tied on each corner to set and check it. they set it along a cut bank and build a fence of poles to funnel them in.
I have picture but dont know where.

A guy brought in a locked up set he found. The bigger one was 68" the smaller was 60"

That’s pretty neat, what a find! Must have been quite the battle. I wonder how many of those bigger boys perish due to what they go through in the rut. I have seen them with gnarly gore wounds and puss oozing from their heads.

I'm sure they take a beating ! I killed one with broken ribs and split ears. Another one with only one eye.

It's always neat to see the locked horns. One of my old trapping partners found a set a few years back the troopers got wind of it and told him they belonged to the state because the skulls were still attached. They let them stay in the village but he had to donate to the school where they are still hanging today

That sounds like some BS. I have a feeling the Troopers were in the wrong on that one. Selling it I could see a problem, but not just possessing them.

-TJ

Yeah that sounds like the troopers were wrong on that one.

I agree but they were pretty pushy on it. It's in a good place though everyone can enjoy it and he doesn't seem to mind he was wishing he could have sold it but knows that would have been a big nono

I have friends here this fall that called FnG about taking antlers off of dead moose, they said go ahead. Of course they will still need to be cut off to sell them in Alaska.

Found antlers on or off an animal are completely legal to keep. There is nothing in the regs about possessing any kind of antler or horn on or off the skull. What the regs say very clearly is you can not SELL antlers or horns while attached to the skull. I wonder, Otter, if the troopers assumed, or had info, your friend may had purchased the set?
There are federal regs on picking up found antlers on federal land. Specifically, Park Service lands, which includes monuments.
mt

I am a little late to the party here, haven't checked this thread for quite a while. Sure miss salmonberries. Loved the video, Jeff. Only someone who grew up in the time you did, and then lived where you do could put "crimson and clover" and salmon berries together. Awesome!!
Have picked salmon berries in a few places in Jeff's country. Below LA (Nunam) but my favorite memory is the time my ex proved to me Yukon Delta berries were the best. She always said they were better than Nome berries. Left Emo one July day and headed to the North (Yukon R.) channel. Went up a side slough somewhere and maybe over a beaver dam. Nice tundra patch surrounded by willow and the biggest, milkiest berries I had ever tasted! They were so good, and better than Nome berries. Never got back. Her brothers said the beaver dams got bigger and couldn't get in there anymore!
Keep the vids coming, Jeff.
mt

Those Berries get thicker on the coast. Back in the King salmon days when everyone here was rich, they used to charter float planes to the coast to pick salmon berries.
Glad you like the video MT, was from a few years ago.

Putting some salmon berries to good use as I type. They make awesome jam too.

Looks like Alaskan cole slaw!

By the way, I have made it nearly 2 YEARS with-out censor! Don't take away the red, though. I am a published author, now, and all.....................

So AV, what does it take to get the fancy font color on your handle? You and white got it figured out, lol.

If the troopers had said info they were dead wrong he had three people watching him chop them out of the frozen ground. They were on state land. I know within a few hundred yards of where they were found

Looks like you joined the fancy font color guys, last one I saw in green was James

Sorry I asked, guess I'm a greenhorn now!

Seen a rainbow in January. That's a first. Got some rain before after -37C ON FRIDAY.