The beaver are all put, castor is trying, meat is getting tainted Decided to go hit some ducks this morning out on my line.

I like fall mallard! How much HP in the sea ark?

Ryan I honestly have no clue. That is my buddy Recondo's boat. I just know that the joker has a bunch of zip! We take it down on the Copper River though the canyon, fast mad water and that puppy still flies! I will find out though.

Congrats on the bear and caribou .....nice pics and stories !!!

Ryan- That Sea Ark has a 200 hsp in it.

Well just got back in from a awesome adventure in PWS. Headed out of Whittier to Montague Island to chase a few deer with 3 buddies. The one owns a nice 30 ft boat with two 250's on it. It is a mover on calm water! Beautiful scenery, and seen a bunch of cool wild life. Pretty dang wet and cold out there, but the sea's were good to us. Definitely puts gear to the test

Saw these guys high and dry on a rock, don't know what kind they are but they where pretty big!


This picture of a pod of Orca's does't do them justice. pretty cool creatures to see. The amount of wildlife we saw out there was amazing, seals, sea otters, swans, ducks, bears, was pretty awesome!

We did a little fishing and limited out on rock fish

I even caught me a shark

But the highlight was Recondo connecting with 2 deer.

Wanted to get more pic's but water and electronics do not mix well and after smoking a charger I decided to play it safe
Got a little bait now for the otters and the bait stations!

Those pinnipeds on the rocks look like Stellars sea lions?

Those sand sharks/ dogfish are good eating, if you're not worried about the mercury. Just hold him by the gills and cut the backstrap off with one cut. Nice white meat. Of course with a mess of rockfish, you might not bother .

Re: bait barrels: to prevent rip-outs, just cut a hole in the end of the barrel near the edge, and another hole in the side so you can run your chain through the corner. The rim of a barrel is the strongest part. Even better is if you use oil drums with bungs in em, you have 2 reinforced holes built in. Same thing, drill a hole in the side so chain runs through the corner.

Thanks for posting.

AV- might be, we saw a few harbor seals in the bay we where tucked in and the head shape is different.

KK- Our captain, ( a Buddy ) said they tasted like crap We threw them all back! I will try that next year on the barrels
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Been busy the past few days, got a call from the troopers and picked up a moose, I think I am set on bait for the start of the season!

Knocked out getting the wheeler ready, does't look like we are going to have enough snow again this year to kick off the season.

Got my order in from F&T today, knocked out 4 dozen wolf snares for a fellow T Man member and Alaskan

Picked up a few of those stinger kill spring systems, going to try them out this year at a few spots.

Are you using 1X19 cable?

12 ft of 3/32 1x19 cable, BMI loc. 645 lbs BAD.

VegasJim turned me onto these little stinger set ups from Senneker. I picked up two dozen with this last order and knocked out a few yote snares.

Nice!!! Great pics and write up.

We too are going to give those senneker snares another shot too. For wolves.

Have a good season John.

That spring set up looks like a lot of bling for a canine. I assume some twigs, etc. will be used to hide it.
mt

martentrapper- nope, flat grey/brown spray paint blends in pretty good in the spruce thickets down here, refusals are rare.

Does the additional hardware on the lock end pose challenges with keeping the loop open? Seems that you would need to compensate for the additional weight, somehow?

The challenge I see is after the catch and trying to remove the snare from the target animal what ever that maybe. Without doing any damage to yourself so in other works be very careful if and when you cut cable while the spring is sprung.
Don't loose the setter for the trigger that's my suggestion when using Marty's snare setup.
I'm still a fan of the coil spring on the snares I build for myself and or to sell.
Stay Safe out there !
Allan

Allan I used those coils spring ones, still using bunch of them and they work. I have had a few yotes that have managed to get that coil wrapped up in thier fur pretty dang good were there ended up being damage. And of course that damage is always right behind the head on the neck.

AV- honestly I see no differance, but then again those slim loc's seem to hold their position pretty good even in the wind.

So the cable is swagged to what appears to be #9 wire? Or is that #11?

That is 11, it fits perfect in a 3/32 double ferrule . If I was using 9 wire 1/8 double ferrule would work.