Nice couch, what's all that junk on top of it?

Very nice Takotna. Lots of work involved there. Your my inspiration.!!

Nice pile of $100 bills there..even a few darkies

Jeff are you thinking $100.00 avg at the June sale? What have you been hearing?

I know I don't post often but my internet trap line that I dream up doesn't even produce. After hitting the villages in SE for a while, time to bring the Aurora back to Prince William Sound. We were supposed to leave this past weekend, but the forecast was really really bad. Making a run for it in the morning, hopefully without a stop in Yakutat. Who knows though, the weather guessers have been wrong before. Yar Har!

CAPE DECISION TO CAPE EDGECUMBE-
1041 PM AKDT MON APR 4 2011
TUE...E WIND 20 KT. SEAS 20 FT SUBSIDING TO 17 FT IN THE
AFTERNOON. SW SWELL. RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON.
.TUE NIGHT...W WIND 25 KT. SEAS 15 FT. SW SWELL.

CAPE EDGECUMBE TO CAPE FAIRWEATHER-
1041 PM AKDT MON APR 4 2011
TUE...SE WIND 15 KT. SEAS 18 FT SUBSIDING TO 15 FT IN THE
AFTERNOON. SW SWELL.
.TUE NIGHT...S WIND 20 KT. SEAS 14 FT. SW SWELL.

CAPE FAIRWEATHER TO ICY CAPE-
1041 PM AKDT MON APR 4 2011
TUE...SE WIND 15 KT. SEAS 16 FT SUBSIDING TO 13 FT IN THE
AFTERNOON. SW SWELL.
.TUE NIGHT...E WIND 15 KT. SEAS 12 FT. SW SWELL.
.WED...W WIND 15 KT. SEAS 12 FT. SW SWELL.
.WED NIGHT...W WIND 15 KT. SEAS 13 FT. SW SWELL.

ICY CAPE TO CAPE SUCKLING-
1041 PM AKDT MON APR 4 2011
TUE NIGHT...S WIND 15 KT. SEAS 11 FT. SW SWELL.
.WED...W WIND 20 KT. SEAS 12 FT. SW SWELL.
.WED NIGHT...NW WIND 10 KT. SEAS 11 FT. SW SWELL.

CAPE SUCKLING TO GORE POINT
400 PM AKDT MON APR 4 2011
WED...NW WIND 25 KT. SEAS 10 FT.
.WED NIGHT...W WIND 15 KT. SEAS 8 FT.

Glad it's you and not me. Be careful. Gaaaaaaaaarr

Going to be some pukers on there for sure!

-TJ

That's nice spring weather. You oughta try it on a little boat, while overloading 'er with fish, that's when things get interesting. Trunew, thanks for filling in for the LeConte, we appreciated it.

Herring? If so how did the price compare to last year given the situation in Japan?

Black cod, halibut. Price is high.
Here's the type weather I like to be in the Gulf for fishing. That's the St. Elias Mtns and Malaspina Glacier, west of Yakutat.

I certainly wouldn't try this on one of "those" days. This is off Lituya Bay.

Herring prices are a funny thing. Usually an "advance" price is posted, a fraction of the final. But often fishermen don't know the final price for many months, after the product is sold. Not unusual to get a check a year after fishing. Heard $300 a ton starting this year, considerably less than half of last year.

Sounds like they are hedging their bets big time; understandable.

I used to have a Norton Sound Herring gillnet permit,the price was $1000. a ton for 10% and another $100 a % above that.
good old days.

Old news but picked up these 2 back in February.

Very nice!

Both have nice color. Cool deal. Got any set picts?

FT I don't usually take pictures of sets but I do have a couple:


Kill in background. 15 more snares in brush behind kill. Too late, no action.


Same 2 snares as above. Look at that trail/pee! I think I will reset this next season just in case they swing back by.


Avalanche-killed goat that wolverine had been feeding on. This was challenging it was in a travelled area and nothing good to anchor too, exposed to snow, lost in next avalanche etc.

280 set at base of cottonwood stump. No go. Had pretty high hopes for this set but there are fewer wolverine in this area now due to loss of moose population to brown bears, and so no wolf kills which used to bring the wolverine in.

Decent size 97lbs. I'm doing the stand way back thing for max affect.

Man that thing has a big head.....

uh huh and so does the wolf

Very nice. I really like seeing the snare picts. What did you do for anchor. Did you tie off to that mess of alders on the right with the one? Curious as that is the type of options I would be faced with if and when I go after wolves. Didn't know if it would be better to go with a drag or tie off to he base including a number of the small trees.