Copy that! Warm weather around here. A aklak(brown bear) has been making tracks all over our country. January and its still out! Alaay!

Man work has been super busy with the power plant being short handed. I have been working 6 days a week for a while now, and not time for fun stuff or family time. I did however, modify some of my 330's, I took the chains off and attached cable with furrels and the big key rings which will cut my setting time down Im sure.

We have been getting the back end of the storm tha hit eastern Alaska, so the extra snow coverage is nice. The land was still barren for the most part it seemed like it, but, long distance traveling is possible.
I went out for a short ride, up and over a pass where I was trapping a few years back.




Next week Im going to pull in some #9's and get them ready for boiling.
Guys from the ville have been catching amaguq(wolf) and qavvik(wolverine) close to home, so that and all the awesome pics and stories you guys supply the site with is getting to be a little too much for this trapperman. One group of guys trapped a pure white fully grown male amaguq at the landfill. Its a beautiful animal! All white, no hints of other colors anywhere on the body, first of its kind I have seen come out of this village.
Stay safe out their!

isn't it about the time to get some of those nasty sucker faced vampire eels? or was that earlier?

that happens like mid November Hup

Calling for 70 MPH winds here for the next many days. Am locked out of the line. .
Going to send my first paltry catch to FHA tomorrow. Hope for the best on marten.

Blowing now:
http://www.kinyradio.com/weather-pages/weather-inside-waters/

Yea used to be late October like Halloween,but getting later more like mid Novemeber now.

The Burbot feast on the eels and get fat from them, good bait if you hook line them.

I went out and broke trail into some new to me country. There were caribou sign, wolf and wolverine also. Im going to dye some #9's tonight at work and hopefully make a few sets this weekend or next when I bring some supplies for some skiers going from Noatak to Kaktovik.
These valleys look pretty sheepy!



Safe travels!

Those willow creeks look like pretty good wolverine spots Nunamiut! Looks good!

The fish are biting pretty good in this cool weather.

They bite pretty good when the bait is a net

You bet, I dont have time to wait around for a fish to bite on a hook in below zero weather I need dinner now !

LOL !!! I hear ya but that red & green stuff looks un-American !!

Nice plate there YJ, except for the rice. That stuff ain't fit to eat.

I thought those were maggots........... knowing Jeff !

Nice looking fish on that plate. Is it burbot?

Rice Rules!!! And don't let mike fool you. He loves it so much, it crosses his tongue twice, every time he eats it!

Jeff, that's the most civil meal I have seen you eat in a long time.

And it looks like maggots, both times.....

LOL!!! Even Jeff is gonna puke !!

Nothing goes together like peas and carrots and burbot, with a side of maggots