Ride along to get dinner.
You older fellas might want to turn down the music a tad.

We snare beaver the same here and set traps like that for black fish. Haven't found a place now in a couple years where the black fish are keeping open. How did you come across your spot?

I broke through on my snowmachine and also saw where a moose went through. so I set it up for otter, and eventually saw where the otter were coming out and eating blackfish, ie. blood on the ice. I threw in my blackfish trap,and did pretty good.
The last few years it froze solid to the mud, from lack of snow and could not set it. Its a good spot this year, should get more later in the spring.

Look for a small channel between two lakes, That's generally a good spot. Also check anywhere the otter are popping out.

When mink and otter were good money, the trappers here used these traps for fur, and did real good. I still get muskrats in mine set for blackfish.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

Chris

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks guys, Glad to have you along.

what do you do with black fish bait or for eating ?

Thanks Jeff.

Thanks for sharing. Like your videos.
Mac

Very interesting!! Great post!

very nice

Thanks again Guys.



The small fish are a delicacy here, I eat some and give them away to the elders mostly.
They do make great bait for pike on a hook though.

Cool video, thanks for sharing!

Very cool. Those fish look like small burbot.

Thanks.

They really do look like miniature burbot and taste like them too.
They can freeze pretty much solid and come back to life after being thawed if its just a for a few hours. Pretty cool fish. They are very important diet here for mink ,and otter and even fox paw them out of the ice and eat.

I heard the diet here of the Natives was like 60% blackfish back in the old days, during the winter. Not a lot to eat then.

sounds almost like our bullhead-almost

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Sounds like our mud minnows actually. They can burrow into the mud in winter when a pond dries up, and somehow come to life in the spring.

First,” Tool!” Great choice! Very cool, I’m in for more video! Thanks for posting!

They are indeed in the mudminnow Family Umbridae.