God Bless.

Sorry to hear of your family’s loss.
Good people are missed the most.

My condolences to you and you're family Ryan and Fiona on the loss of Louisa she sounds like a truly great and unique person that we all should try to be more like her and may she rest in peace .

Sorry for your families losses lately Ryan, thats tough. Sounds like you have a great family. Hope everyone is doing well.

Blessings to your family

I can only hope that the pain from your loss can be replaced with the blessings of love eternal. People like Louisa have a way of helping those they cared for long after they are gone from the world.

Holy crap! Nice haul.

Nice dark one

He knocked down 11 marten boxes. Tore the box to pieces to get at the bait. Then he ate a marten. He followed the line for a long ways and eventually found this duke 330 I set about 3 weeks ago baited with some beaver meat. Another one came along and checked it out in the trap before following the line all the way to the end where it found a low hanging wolf snare. He busted that and left the scene. We reset that wolf bait and after a full day of line maintenance a storm came up burying everything and adding a foot to two feet of soft drifted powder. What a trip we had. That wolverine came back during the night and stepped all where he was supposed to but the snow was too much and he didn’t snap the traps. Came close but weather is always the boss and we sure had some weather overnight. The 62 km from the tent to the road was all blown in and you couldn’t tell where the trail was most of the way. Lost track of how many times we got stuck over the day but I’d say at least 8-10 times. Relaxing with lots of fluids today waiting for 15 marten to thaw.

And the adventure continues
Sorry for your loss

Bravo !

Man that was a rough trip but you still got some marten and a nice wolverine. Hope that other wolverine is waiting for you when you get back. Worse feeling ever seeing foot prints on traps that are frozen up or snowed in. Dang it!

Lots snow this year

2nd time breaking trail to the tent this week. Made a quick round trip before the weather cools off. So much snow this year.


Luckily the little snare buster came back. Going to see how it cleans up and skin it for sewing. Unfortunate that it's damaged but I'm very relieved knowing it's not running around with a snare on it anymore. Picked up 6 marten since the last trip despite the stormy weather. I'll probably be moving to my own line in the next couple weeks. Hopefully pick up a couple more sled loads of fur from the current line especially the 2-3 wolverine making tracks then start over on my line which I have been missing a lot lately.

Wolverine was caught by the neck. Snare had a Thompson lock which I rarely use. Lock ended up on the bottom of the neck rather than the top.

Pretty sure you're the only spot in North America that is complaining about too much snow this winter. I've already went through one set of skis on my snowmobile,

Same here but I’m still on quad, need more snow to cross all the dams & swamp to get to the full line.
Good to see you’re back in action Ryan, hope you’re doing well.
I had a chew out this weekend, three wolves were dead in the rams but the biggest one musta used his side cutter back teeth to snip. He fought for a while though. There was also no way to get tangled up either, just bull rushes around. Wonder if that was a factor?

Yep, very little snow in Alberta as well. Should be driving the quad but I find that to rough.

Congrats on the wolves SJ. Nothing to get tangled up in might've been a factor for sure for the one that chewed out. I have had good results using an extension and a whammy on my snares. The extension let's them take off running and gets a good tight hook up when the slack runs out. Then they usually wrap around a tree or Willows and there isn't much sign of struggle.
Type of lock, placement of catch, and amount of initial panic could also be factors when using snares.

In certain drifted sections of my line my elevated sets are almost level with the top of the snow. I usually set them around 5 feet high. I'm glad we opened the trail again and fixed up all the wolf and wolverine gear yesterday. Temperature is dropping this morning and we would've been risking frozen faces and hypothermia breaking trail in the cold weather. Even -20c was a lil cool once you start sweating. Supposed to see mid 30s this week. Good to know the 750s are waiting nice and crisp right now even though the wolves haven't showed up in a few weeks. Forgot to mention we picked up a big lynx in a wolf set too.

Won this beauty today on a $20 ticket.