There is absolutely nothing to compare to opening your marten line with 2 feet of snow rolling up over the cowling and steaming up the windshield, up ahead is a nice dark marten bouncing between 100 year old (LOL) 5 ft. black spruce trees and snow, and sweat rolling down your back because your overdressed for the 30 below day and the effort needed to get your line opened!

I really miss it but the guy that runs my line now keeps me informed after every trip! Might just give it one more try this winter.

This pic was taken in 1990 at my cabin on the Nowitna. Marten trapping wasn't so good that year but I found a couple moose kill sights while flying and snared them up.


This next one is around 93 or 94. I bought that plane in 92 so it is after that. I'm in a small lake in the Little Mud drainage of the Nowitna. Had some good years lake hopping there trapping marten.

Lastly, me and my current plane just last weekend on the ramp in Minto, Alaska. Was a joy ride day for 4 citabria owners from Fairbanks.


Most of my trapping pics from Marten country were before digital cams. I'll have to look for some more and snap them with my phone.

Looks nice Mike !!

Here's my work partner visiting me on the trapline a few years back, on a warm March day.

^^^Amazing, and the rest of the pictures on the thread are interesting, as well.

There you are ! I could sit for hours in that shed just exploring the colours in those marten.

My beautiful hat will be ready to wear soon again ! Along with your otter hat I'm having made , too.

You are almost swallowed up in that pile of marten ! And that's just one haul...not even seeing all the other critters you catch besides marten.

A trapping machine, you are , T4ever .

T4ever -

My hat off to you once again, sir. That is simply amazing, and a phenomenal amount of work. I seriously doubt that there's anyone in the world that catches and puts up marten as well as you do. Simply your "by-catch" of mink and land otter is, in itself, a testament to hard work and personal management of your "lines".

Jack

That’s an amazing season and a lot of work, way to go T4E

This picture taken just a minute ago. Big storm moving through here

Ken -

Looks to me to be CAVU flying weather. Time to fire up the 'cub and go check some sets!

Yeah right !!! ))))
I think this would be less taxing on the sphincter

How gorgeous through the pass ! Here's another nice day to fly through it too....

This is what the Gulf of Mexico looks like ,when it’s not mad!!