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Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8520393
12/10/25 02:30 AM
12/10/25 02:30 AM
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AK
bfisch Offline
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AK
Way to go! Otters are so much fun to catch! If only they were half as much fun to flesh. . .

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8520929
12/10/25 08:08 PM
12/10/25 08:08 PM
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40 years Alaska, now back to O...
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alaska viking Offline
"Made it two years not being censored"
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40 years Alaska, now back to O...
That otter looks cold. Are those ice blocks on the spring?


Just doing what I want now.

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8521155
12/10/25 11:46 PM
12/10/25 11:46 PM
Joined: Dec 2008
Wasilla AK
HFT AK Offline OP
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HFT AK  Offline OP
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Wasilla AK
Thanks guys!
Bfisch Indeed! I got a sharper fleshing knife now so it was pretty easy going this round.
AV yep, Went from in the 40's to the single digits and getting colder. Hoping that spot stays open, All the other holes I found last run were filled in by overflow.

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8523324
12/13/25 10:16 PM
12/13/25 10:16 PM
Joined: Dec 2008
Wasilla AK
HFT AK Offline OP
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HFT AK  Offline OP
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Wasilla AK
Today consisted of rebaiting, re luring, and chopping otter gear out of overflow. Got a few more sets in for the little jokers smile
Picked up yote #5.

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Pretty much running on ice and the critters can go wherever they want, no snow in the 10 day forecast frown

Be safe out there guys!

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8523391
12/13/25 11:28 PM
12/13/25 11:28 PM
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Man, you guys are sure getting crazy weather. I know my old stomping grounds are really getting whacked with snow then very cold.
At least you are skinning. Good looking coyote.


Just doing what I want now.

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8524242
12/15/25 12:53 AM
12/15/25 12:53 AM
Joined: Dec 2008
Wasilla AK
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Wasilla AK
AV yeah the weather is wacked, we didn't get much wind here at the house last weekend but man tonight it is screaming! At least we aint getting hammered like WA state! Rain then snow, can you imagine trying to run a line in that?!!!

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8526758
12/18/25 10:11 PM
12/18/25 10:11 PM
Joined: Dec 2008
Wasilla AK
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Wasilla AK
Another day of chopping gear out of overflow. I have never seen it this bad on the one little stream I run. Pretty much shut that down for the otter till we get some different weather. Looks like it is going to stay in the single digits to low minus's for the next 10 days.
Picked up a nice otter in one section of a creek that still has open water. Then a rat decided he wanted to play with a 330, of course he lost 🙂

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Be safe out there guys!

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8526847
12/19/25 12:53 AM
12/19/25 12:53 AM
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Way to keep grinding! Critters will be hungry when your weather system that is on the way abates. Be Ready.


Just doing what I want now.

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8526860
12/19/25 02:39 AM
12/19/25 02:39 AM
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Wasilla AK
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AV I think I am going to waiting a spell....... then again the weatherman has been more wrong then right! smile

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Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8529354
12/22/25 10:28 PM
12/22/25 10:28 PM
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Wasilla AK
HFT AK Offline OP
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Wasilla AK
Got the big goose egg today, A little nippy out there today -23 when I hit the trailhead. Warmed up to -11 on the way home.

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Had a yote poke around a bait station until he found a safe way in, of course I didn't have any snares, I had used them all setting up on a moose I found.

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Hopefully next check smile

Be safe out there guys!

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8529397
12/22/25 11:44 PM
12/22/25 11:44 PM
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That's some cold trapping, my friend. You too, stay safe.


Just doing what I want now.

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8580702
Yesterday at 02:32 PM
Yesterday at 02:32 PM
Joined: Dec 2008
Wasilla AK
HFT AK Offline OP
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Wasilla AK
It has been a minute since I updated this, pretty much due to a serious lack of action on my line. This has been the worst year of trapping for me and it is not due to a lack of effort.

I picked up three mink, sent them to FHA heard they are going to bring big money this year! smile

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Story of my life, guess where the trap is......

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Of course the day after I turn my fur in to go to auction I catch this beauty.

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Think that trap was a little frozen down.........

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I managed to get 7 yotes this year. One was even three legged. Caught this last one in a blind trail set. Got home and took a good look at her, she had mange or lice. Under belly bare, and a big bald spot between the shoulder blades

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Some days you just got to stop and be grateful for the world around you in that moment of time.

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It is always crazy how a otter will go cross country between water sources!

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Ran yesterday and pulled all but 6 traps and a few snares. I had cut one cat track in the beginning of the year and didn't see another till yesterday coming out. Good to see that there is seed out there!

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Shutting everything down Saturday and getting ready for the Fling! Be safe out there guys!

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8580724
Yesterday at 03:53 PM
Yesterday at 03:53 PM
Joined: Jan 2014
AK
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Beautiful cross! That mink looks well furred and dark!

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8580850
Yesterday at 08:29 PM
Yesterday at 08:29 PM
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40 years Alaska, now back to O...
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"Made it two years not being censored"
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You made the best of what you had. Great looking fox!


Just doing what I want now.

Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: HFT AK] #8580852
Yesterday at 08:30 PM
Yesterday at 08:30 PM
Joined: Sep 2013
AK
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FL cracker in AK Offline
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Hard year for trapping out west of you too. Nice cross. I miss trapping Cross and silver fox over there. Haven't seen one since I moved over here.


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Re: HFT_AK Journal 2020 -21 [Re: FL cracker in AK] #8580909
Yesterday at 10:17 PM
Yesterday at 10:17 PM
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Moved to Fbks, Ak.
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Originally Posted by FL cracker in AK
Hard year for trapping out west of you too. Nice cross. I miss trapping Cross and silver fox over there. Haven't seen one since I moved over here.


The more west you are in Alaska the less cross and silver fox you see. I think we caught a cross or 2 when I lived in Nome. Eastern Alaska has more.

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