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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3495270
12/19/12 01:22 PM
12/19/12 01:22 PM
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juneau, alaska
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Yeah, weather here isn't any better. Big wind, bigger gusts, and heavy freezing spray. They canceled the ferry today. Don't see that very often.
Guess I won't take the skiff out.


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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: akpawpincher] #3495403
12/19/12 02:41 PM
12/19/12 02:41 PM
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McGrath, AK
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Originally Posted By: akpawpincher
Originally Posted By: 30Otter06
Glad you found the dog...its a nasty one tonight,I'm gonna be digging out traps tomorrow


Thanks Thomas. I worry about him getting hit on the road out front. He loves this weather! He's such a rascal. He probes the fence out back constantly trying to find a weak spot where I have a strip of wire fence buried and tied in to the chain link. He pushes until he busts one of the wires and then works on it for as long as it takes to bust enough wires to crawl out from underneath the chain link. Took about two months from his last escape this time. I'm getting better at detecting his escape attempts but this one was hidden down in the back corner under a big salmon berry bush. This snow is gonna drift over everything. I don't have any sets in right now but I feel for you!




Tonight
nt_snow Snow and blowing snow...tapering to snow showers after midnight. Visibility reduced to one quarter mile or less...improving after midnight. Snow accumulation up to 3 inches. Lows around 20. Northwest wind 35 to 50 mph. Local gusts to 60 mph.



Voltage !


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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3495483
12/19/12 03:16 PM
12/19/12 03:16 PM
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Alaska
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Originally Posted By: white17
Voltage !


He's already wired up like Hannibal Lecter. He has to wear a bark collar in the yard because our house is situated like the stage at an opera theater and all the neighbors have orchestra pit seating. The bark collars have to be positioned high up on the neck to work (unless I shave his neck) and they recommend that no other collars be used lest they cause unwanted stray voltage from contact or vibration. Believe me I've looked into the invisible fences... I even put a cable run for him out back but he kept getting tangled up on everything. I did a full perimeter check again last night and mended his handy work. It will hold him for a little while. What a bugger!


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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: akpawpincher] #3497063
12/19/12 11:02 PM
12/19/12 11:02 PM
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M.T.V. Alaska
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Well first I had to feed him.



The set 10 feet away got him after dinner with a full belly smile


Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3497094
12/19/12 11:12 PM
12/19/12 11:12 PM
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Kenai Penn, AK
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Woke up this morning to my smoke house destroyed by a bear, I had stored some salted herring in there for the winter for bait, thought it was late enough in the year that I wouldn't have any problems....guess not, looks like a pretty big boy by the size of his tracks. I fear he is planning on coming back to night to hit the duck pen and eat all my ducks.....oh well they aren't laying eggs right now anyway....


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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3497504
12/20/12 01:59 AM
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3497534
12/20/12 02:18 AM
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I'm noticing bears are staying out later consistently year after year. A friend reported one last week in a boreal mountain complex in northern Alberta where -30 and huge snow has been around for months. In my opinion these are dangerous bears. They either haven't denned because of inadequate fat levels or got up and came put of the den for the same reason. I don't see a climate change angle …I see an increased bear population and density issue. I know some guys who fended off a bear iwith a chainsaw in february at 7000' in the mountains. finally someone pulled out a 303 and shot it, starving.

Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: yukonjeff] #3497539
12/20/12 02:21 AM
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Interior Alaska
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Originally Posted By: yukonjeff
Well first I had to feed him.



The set 10 feet away got him after dinner with a full belly smile



Oh I see, you use live bait. May have to try that.

Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3497544
12/20/12 02:28 AM
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Bethel, AK
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That set looks familiar YJ. Nice cat.


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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3497565
12/20/12 02:44 AM
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M.T.V. Alaska
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Thanks.. these two side by side sets produce alot of doubles for me throughout the year.

Unfortuantely this time one was a rabbit.

Here is the set.


Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: Kusko] #3497569
12/20/12 02:48 AM
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Lake Iliamna Ak
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This fellow stayed out until December and then hit our
meathouse,at least he died with a full stomach.

Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3500019
12/20/12 11:21 PM
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Just my computer, or is the site slower than..................
Other than that, weather here is getting worse. Wind.


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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3500182
12/21/12 12:28 AM
12/21/12 12:28 AM
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Galena Alaska USA
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Galena Alaska USA
There is a brown that makes his appearance on the line every winter, late november to Dec. People cut his tracks every so often. One of these times i want to take a couple guys and track him down. Be something else! maybe try some fawn in distress calls if i cut his sign fresh. haha get as far away from the foxpro as possible.

Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: yukonjeff] #3505137
12/23/12 04:13 AM
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Was a good day nice set

Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3506625
12/23/12 08:26 PM
12/23/12 08:26 PM
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Galena Alaska USA
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Yukonjeff- :-) Platter of Deep Fried burbot today. Kids had it gone in no time flat. Next time down river i wanna try some Goose wings in my lynx sets. I'll try your hanging wing Set.

Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3507280
12/23/12 11:31 PM
12/23/12 11:31 PM
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That sounds good YT I need to check my net tomorrow!

Here is another that fell for the goose wing dinner today.


Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3507305
12/23/12 11:43 PM
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Alaska
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Nice cats Jeff!


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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3507359
12/24/12 12:07 AM
12/24/12 12:07 AM
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Interior Alaska
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Nice cat Jeff.

Here is a yj set, see if it will connect. Set on a single set of tracks that came through last week.



Here is a 330 set I tried, had a couple walk bys here so switched things up a bit.


Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3507371
12/24/12 12:13 AM
12/24/12 12:13 AM
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Homer, Alaska
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Homer, Alaska
Smalltime.
A suggestion on a trigger baited coni. Put a nail anchored right behind lower back jaw. All spring momentum will throw the coni forward. Ensuring that on a pull back of the bait the trap will reach out there farther IMO.

Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #6 [Re: white17] #3507391
12/24/12 12:20 AM
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Alright, could do that. I was thinking that the springs pushing off the notches in the box would thrust the trap forward. More thrust is never a bad thing though.

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