Any of you guys trapping in Alaska?

If so, howdy from Fairbanks!

My brother and i trap in Delta Junction......Alaska

Have you had any success this season?

(I'm Shiningstars brother) not really, mostly squirrels.

Well if you keep at it and learn all you can. You should start seeing some success.

Hey ShiningStar and CoalCreekKid! Any luck this year?

No, my brother and I had to pull our line because in Delta we have some warm changes in the weather, the snow is melting and there are huge puddles.

I know what you mean. Same thing is happening here in North Pole.

Any luck you guys?

Nope we pulled our line for good last month, wasn't catching much of anything. Got like 10 marten and 20 squirrels.

Way more than I got!

How many did you get?

a bunch of squirrels, 2 rabbits, 1 possum and 1 coon... and some mice

My catch this season is three wolves, one lynx, a weasel, and a few marten. I only trapped squirrels in November because I needed them for bait. I found tracks of wolverine that walked right by my 330 cubby on Saturday. He would have been my first one.

Coalcreekkid and Shining star with their marten catch last year.

Wow!!!!

Well done!! Are you related to CoalCreekKid and ShiningStar, Victor?

I'm their Dad. Our family lived and trapped on a remote trap line for years. Both Coalcreekkid and shiningstar started trapping when they were 5 years old. We just recently ( August ) relocated out of the bush to Delta Junction.

Nice to see a whole family enjoying the outdoors. Good luck you guys!

wow just put the family tree together of you guys never knew anyone on here was related. I have always wanted to trap in the Alaskan bush like Marty Meierotto from mountain men I even have the same snowmobile as him not on purpose

What trap do you use for squirrels?

Marty bought some of his trapline from Coalcreekkid and Shiningstars grandfather. Their Moms family trapped the Black River area going back to their great great grandfather James Carroll who also trapped up the Sheenjik river. Their great great grandfather James Carroll has a book called " Above the Arctic circle the memoirs of James A. Carroll " if you are ever looking for a good book to read.

Wow!!!

Our family trapped the other side of the Yukon from Marty ie. Coal Creek hence the Coal creek kid nickname

Cool!

I will definitely have to check that book out!

Same here!

wow that's amazing!

We use #120 or #110 conibears

Do you skin the squirrels and sell the fur. Or do you use them for bait?

I skin and sell them, a guy buys the skins for $10 each.

Wow!!

I'm gonna be lookin for buyers around here now

What’s the name of the guy you sell the skins to?

Thats a secret

That is a very good price for squirrels. I had a guy who would buy them two years ago for $5. Is his name Bill Wivoda per chance?

Don’t get too excited, you’d have better luck selling just the tails to fly tying places or Meps spinners might buy them

Yall tryna steal coal creek kids buyers lol

yeah even then red squirrel tails are only $0.12!

lol

yeah even then red squirrel tails are only $0.12!


aint gonna get much more for em unless you find specialty buyers

I know a place that'll pay 15 bucks for good black squirrel pelts!
Haven't sold any to em yet though

I am currently looking for a squirrel pelt buyer. No luck yet, so I’ll keep looking!

nice, black squirrels and fox squirrels are hard to skin if your case skinning them, you pretty much have to skin them by making a cut down the belly and slowly working the skin off

Season is coming to a close for me.
3 wolves
1 lynx
2 weasels
3 marten

Not bad for two months worth of trapping!

My end of the season pic, we got seven marten and ten squirrels.

Nice!!!

Nice job! Most of my fur is already sold, so I can’t get a picture for you. But I’ll see if I have any of them later tonight.