They had a video on Facebook of the removal also. Quite an ordeal but they got the heads out.

Family Trapper I saw the article online, the comments were unbelievable...

it was an interesting story

Finally a real winter. We've had a good month of cold weather and a bit of snow. i've been hauling in material to the lodge, 160 lineal feet of metal roofing, I'm going to do a couple of my cabin roof's this winter. I've got a few lynx snares out and 25 wolf snares around a moose kill. Not in a panic to set traps as I'm going hard after christmas

Have a great christmas

Merry Christmas Brian, good luck and be safe this season. Getting my Apple figured out and will post some pics from the line this week. Finally got out on the line. We got some snow in town but pretty tough running out at the cabin. Love your pics and the ride a long.

wicked thread! only on page 30 tho so I am posting so I can find it again easily haha

Thanks for posting.I love reading this stuff.

Happy New Year from the trapline. I'm getting some good bush time in.

My wife is out with me so I put her to work cutting new trail. Smartest thing I did was marry a farm girl, they're good workers. And she's a great companion who also loves the bush life.

Just really getting rolling on the fur sets now, that's mountain trapping, conditions have to be right





And even when things look right you can still be in for a surprise

I had open water running underneath my sled, which is sitting on a three foot thick piece of ice. That whole section of river ice dropped out from under me in a split second. I think I was on shore by the time the sled hit bottom, I baled pretty quick.

I wasn't supposed to have gone this far upriver and my wife was alone at the cabin a few hours away so I knew it was a one man rescue operation. I did have sat phone and emergency gear though so i wasn't flying blind. if my wife wasn't waiting in a cabin I could have taken my time and camped out if needed. But I had my "mule" come-along under the seat of my sled. It only has 20 ' of cable and I was farther that that from shore. I was short about 25'. I didn't have any rope with me but had a 2' piece of # 9 wire and the 3' piece of rope found in your skidoo tool kit.

I dropped a 35' pine tree and knocked the branches off. I wired the one end of the tree truck to my left ski using the number 9 wire. I hooked my come along onto the base of an anchor tree on shore and then ran the winch line out to the closest end of the tree trunk. I put the hook around the trunk but it snapped the trunk as soon as it was under pressure. I took the 3' piece of rope and doubled it up and made a loop that hooked around the tree and the hook on the winch line. It worked slick after that and I was out in under an hour. Had to chop a bit of ice to get snowmobile turned around so it came out front first. All in all not too bad but it could have been a lot worse.

I'm a bit of an idiot as I have an "expedition" dry bag stuffed full of everything I need for situations like this, but I left in camp as I was supposed to only be running an established line that is on land. I would call someone else stupid for taking these chances but its been a way of life.

There seems to be a lot of lynx and hare this year. but they're travelling in family groups and have no problem eating each other when caught in snares. I'm checking a bit more often and have switched over to footholds in lynx hotspots which is working for me. The foothold in the picture if getting set in hopes the lynx will be back for seconds. I will know soon.





Caught a pretty little cross fox that was stealing grouse wings from my lynx sets.


My phone/ camera crapped out while out there so not as many pics as usual. I just picked up a new I phone 7 plus and the camera is outstanding on it. Heading back out tomorrow.

Man I hate it when that happens!! Out of 31 lynx I only had 2 eaten this year one by wolves and one by coyotes.

Did a real nice job on the Skandic, them little winches are life savers. I have the same plan as you, when i don't have enough reach i can throw in a tree, some wire and make it work.
hate it when lynxs turn out like that.
Set with the red bag has me curious, any pics of the set before hand.

A beautiful sunny day on the trapline





but first we have to sled in to the cabins.

It's been a strange season. Nice cold weather early on, then back to a cycle of chinooks. I've lost a lot of snow and have to deal with glare ice and rocks everywhere. beats the snot out of you day after day




Always good to start your day out with a big breakfast

My marten numbers are up a bit, but still less than what I catch in the foothills. But these mountain martens are nice and dark


Also had a family of otters make their way up river for over 10 miles. Usually see their sign once a winter. I believe they make their way from the main stream river and come up and cherry pick the pools for wintering fish.

The argo has been handy for dealing with open water and ice conditions.







I've got 4 footholds in the open water. A deer hide is wrapped around a pole in the water and wolf urine on shore

Where'd you get that submarine-looking dog hauler? Build it? He seems to ride in it pretty well. Mine prefers to ride on the seat when I'll let him, and he's pretty good at staying on too!

Great pics Brian. Is that a black wolf in the first picture? Does your Argo tend to freeze up with all the open water crossings. I know who my sleds build up ice when in the overflow and open water. That is some awesome country you are in up there. I like your open water set for the wolves. Good luck and be safe.