End of the season and just in time. Best time of the year to go exploring but my skandic has been acting up. On to getting gear together for Kodiak bear next month, arrival of honey bees and bear baiting.
Thanks everyone that kept their journals going it looked to be a good year.

Couple more shots to finish out the season.

Nice Pictures! I am surprised to see the bare ground!

picture from Breckinridge, Colorado

FF...
Cool pic of the wolverine hanging from the lift pole!

Hate to see it but end of season here too.
My last wolf of the season, big female. You can see she was "in season".

Nice wolf CM!

Full Freezer: that wolverine you snared it by the back foot? How hard did it fight and did you have to shoot it? Was it able to chew at the snare?
Good job on getting rid of a breeding female Chikenminer. You think another female will com into heat to replace her or did you stop breeding for this season? Way to save a bunch of moose anyways. there was a pack on my line but the warm weather was too crazy. I could not keep my traps functional.

Trap. Yes, shot it with my 17hmr. Only entrance hole,no exit. Couldn’t swing over to reach anything to get ahold of. I’m impressed with that set up.

Man 2 toes without that tip up it is probably a goner and you have a couple toes. Good job. From the picture I thought you snared the back leg.

That is pretty cool to have that particular set like that work as planned. The tip-up seems to be pretty labor intensive, as far as set construction goes. What did you use for the trigger/release? Something like Wildnorth Andrew?
I disagree with Musktat. We have found more than one held only by a couple toes. Maybe because they don’t freeze down here.

Picked up my first Fisher last season. Kind of bummed about it actually. I really don’t want them getting a foothold here, population wise, and out competing our marten. To my knowledge this one is the furthest north along the SE Mainland to be killed.

It may have to do with freezing that they chew out. But usually we have to get them really quick or they are gone if we only catch a few toes. It

With Two people working together we were making a set in under 8 minutes. Granted we had wires,rope,snares or traps all ready from the start of the morning. Finding the right lift poles in a close proximity was the challenge. The majority of my wolverine have been caught in 330’s and 220’s, Just a couple in legholds and never by toes ( whole foot)until now so I can’t comment on the loosing of one . I’m excited to see next year how it works on a large one, or maybe a wolf. It works great for cats and a coyote.

Thanks FF. One of the funnest things about trapping is continually trying new things! Might have saved that wolverine for you.

Pretty cool to catch that fisher. Not too many Alaskans can scratch that one off their bucket list.

The geese showed up here. Got these two Yelllowfeet on the sandbar in front of the house today.

Hello everyone.
I hope the spring and start of summer has been productive.
Few pictures of my adventures.
April in kodiak, May at home setting up bear bait, bee hives and wrangling kids and puppies.

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Nice pictures Fullfreezer. That is some nice looking country.

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Pretty colored bear! Bucket list for me, just being in that area for a while would be good enough. Thanks for the pictures!!!

Cool Pictures FF. Let us know how the bee keeping goes. Bee happy to help if you have any questions.

Got my first King Salmon today.