Trapping Wolverine in Alaska 2022

Hello From the Yukon Flats in Alaska! I just got on Trapperman and this is my first post. Here are a couple photos from my Trapline in 2022. I start on my 2023 Trapline this coming week. It’s going to be fun and a busy 2023.

Welcome to T-man. Great pics.

Great looking fur.

Super Awesome first Post
Welcome to T man

Super nice! Welcome to T-man, EnigmaticGwichin.

Welcome- you may wish to take a look at the wilderness forum . You will find the link at the top of this page. Thanks for the photos!

Set the bar pretty high there with your first post. Look forward to seeing more. Welcome.

Lovely wolverine.

Now that is a dandy way to make an entrance !

WELCOME !

Welcome and good Lawd look at the paws on those things! And teeth!! Sorta glad we ain’t got nothing like that down here. Something like that may make our gators feel inferior!

Welcome to Tman!

Love those pics…especially the northern lights.

Welcome Brother

Keep the pictures coming.

Which village are you in. Good looking fur. Doing any marten or lynx trapping?

Thanks. Got a lot of photos to post

Yeah our wolverines almost always have nice fur.

Thanks guys for the warm welcome. Not sure if I’m responding correctly to all y’all’s comments. I’m located in Venetie about 38 miles above the Arctic Circle.

Welcome!

Wow more photos and some pf your sets amd locations. WELCOME!!!!

welcome , great pic,

Cool

Welcome and look forward to seeing more pics and stories

Cool pictures I hope you enjoy it here.

I’ll second that.

Osky

Very cool thanks for sharing, and welcome to trapper man

Welcome!!
And so jealous

Welcome and thanks for sharing, very cool!

Welcome, nice fur. Christmas lights and northern lights are awesome

Great pictures!! Thanks for sharing! What size is the bodygrip?

Thanks. All but one wolverine I caught last season we’re taken with 330 Conibears. For wolverines up here anything smaller then a #4 they will just tear them apart.

Welcome aboard and Thanks for the Sweet Pics! What's the weather like there recently?

Thanks for sharing some beautiful fur and scenery! Keep it up as the wolverines and wolves will bring some good $$$.

Chris

Thanks I have a lot of photos and videos of outdoor adventures.The weather has been abnormally warm for this time of year. 2 weeks ago it was -50. The last couple days have been around 0 F. Cold weather will roll in by next week.

Hello from the Yukon flats

Awesome Wolverine! I’m in Venetie, where is home base for you?

Outstanding photos, keep them coming.

Very cool!! My kid is in the Army up there and your photos are going to make him drool....

Good stuff . . thanks for sharing

Here are a few more from my Trapline under the Brooks Range.

Thanks again, you are making most of us jealous. Nice photos......jk

I use bucket sets, keeps wolverine from chewing which can knock the price down a fair amount.
Works great on cats too....................

Nice Cat, I usually catch a couple in my 330 sets every year. I tried buckets for part of a season years ago but every wolverine that passed by stayed clear of the bucket. I used white buckets and even completely covered them with spruce boughs. I think it’s has something to do with the remote area, wolverines even stay away from unboiled Lynx traps most of the time here.

I caught 3 wolves in one winter in 330s 3 years ago. Now not a wolf for miles around will go near a 330 set.

I've had wolves go up to them but never commit, was it a young one? The wolverines we catch are in a remote area but they don't seem to be bothered by them, I have heard though from other trappers that buckets don't work in their areas too. One trapper up your way uses snares on a leaning pole set for wolverine and that works well for him. They are certainly our favorite animal to trap and every time I cut fresh tracks I still get gitty as a school girl lol. Lynx and marten are our bread and butter but they crashed so we're just trapping for what my wife uses for skin sewing. Check your mailbox I sent you a PM..............................

Yeah the one in this photo was a young one, but in the same winter I also caught a large male and a medium sized female. There is a guy in Canada that has done well with milk crates, but I have yet to try it. I think I’ve only ever caught one wolverine in a Lynx snare, he had almost chewed through the cable like all the others I’ve caught in Lynx snare. I saw on YouTube a guy doing tip up snares looked like it worked. Haha yeah I’m pretty sure wolverine have been getting all of us excited at least in the last decade. Before that it sounds like they were a real menace on the Trapline destroying a lot of fur. At least the last 3 years wolverine and wolf are the only way I make money. I hope Lynx and marten make a comeback that would really help a lot. That’s awesome that your wife makes stuff with your fur. Every year I say I’ll save some fur and every year I watch it fly away. She does awesome work with beads and fur we buy or have given to us.

Based on my experience trapping wolverine I recommend a spacious walk-through cubby (16-20” wide X 36-40” Length) with a 280 or 330 BG trap at each end. My experience has been if an animal can see its way out the back end of a space, and can easily turn around within it, they are far less hesitant to enter and less apt to tear the cubby apart. In my opinion many wolverines feel crowded in a normal cubby set up with no escape route, thus they tear them apart to safely get at the bait with an escape route available.