kodiak reporting in = 2018

2018 update,
the Buskin Lake has cray fish now and lots of them. folks are setting minnow trap lines and getting quite few. tried a few but too much work. now where did these come from????
hearing reports of mink now and they are breeding too?????
ermine all over just not ready yet, my target choice this season
9 bears from the road system so far harvested , afew still up in town and being pest , they are about done with them if they don t hole up. halloween pretty much a no show as kids afraid to bump into one
pine apple express here this fall ,warm rain
deer population doing some what better but still can be a workout
report of a silver salmon caught at buoy 4 last weekend????[some kings too]
picked up a.17 WSM just sighted in now. looking forward to see how it performs

BE SAFE AND HAVE A GREAT SEASON FOLKS

So mink aren't native to Kodiak? What fur bearing animals are native other than river otter? I assume the fox were planted there?? How about beaver and marten?

I believe that weasels otter and fox are native and beavers and hares introduced. Not sure about the muskrats.

I am amazed there was never a mink farm or two on that island that would have been released with all the easy access to fish for food.

-TJ

When I was there in the early 80's, fox, otter, beaver, ermine. and hares were common. Some few marten on Afognak. No mink at all. No crayfish, either.

i believe after the last ice age it was only like the bat,otter and bear were the only land critters on kodiak
everything else was introduced,deer ,elk. goats,muskrat, beaver, fox,marten-afognak [no mink] tried moose] red squirrel, ermine?All in the last century. THANK YOU past sportsmen for their fore sight. it would never happen in todays red tape
goats are getting to be so invasive on the national wildlife refuge- registration ,long season and 2 goats
marten doing well ,even now over on raspberry being trapped! keep swimming i hope
these crayfish are not welcomed. we think it will be a disaster with the salmon in buskin lake.
not enough otters to control the crayfish and if someone thought lets introduce mink,[duh] will bet they will like seabird eggs/etc alot too !
snowshoe hares looking to be a good year
green grass in the yard still and raining today.foxes i ve seen need more time as well as half white ermines

these muskrats came from seward area i read one time and if, where ever they came from sure are a sad gene pool.

Crayfish in the Buskin is a bad deal . Sockeye escapement was way down this year plus there’s a good silver and even humpy run. Dunno if there’s any steelhead left. I worked the Buskin weir long long ago and we radio tagged steelheads-very cool.