Alaskan Trapping Journal

[TeacherMan]

The CDs are super light weight so I can carry a bunch and can be seen from a couple hundred yds away at several of my sets. No lure will do that. Curiosity killed the cat I use Gusto and beaver at my lynx sets. When I have grouse wings I use those in my sets.

[TeacherMan]

We'll just bought a new otter tow behind sled! Excited to go set a new bait pile tomorrow and put in a ton of new snare pens 😉 I also got a bale straw to make some hay sets for fox. Great sets I have yet to put out this season.

[TeacherMan]

Just found out I get to go fly in trapping with a buddy this next month!!! Small plane with skis

[lokidog]

Sounds fun.   

[bearpaw]

enjoyed catching up on your trapline log, looks like you are having a great season... 

[TeacherMan]

We'll today didn't go as planned woke up in a full sweet and just super tight in my chest. Laid around the house most the after noon but around 1:30 couldn't handle it anymore. I went and cut another mile of line and got in three more sets. Two double snare pens and a cubby with a full beaver in it. The spot I put the cubby was a mile almost straight up hill from my other sets and I cut a crazy beaten trail that just needed set No straw sets for fox didn't have the energy to put my sled together, soon. Plus I put a pic in that I call snare pen alley. Full of cat, fox and bunny tracks  

[TeacherMan]

I was just looking at my snare pens and they kind of remind me of narrow Yancy cage trap sets for bobcat lol.

[TeacherMan]

Few more sets! Wish I had the amount of game in my area as you guys do in WA. With the number of sets I've got out Id be wiping it up in my old area in the NE corner down there. Been getting more wolverine sets in with 330s and 280s this week. Plus more snare pens and a wide open cubby.

[TeacherMan]

Took the girls out to check my short line at the house. Always fun taking the munchkins out even if we don't get anything. I taught my girls how to make a blind corner high bank pee post for fox. Used an OS #2 Bridger coil. Great set that's very plain and non obvious but a killer on anything that passes

[TeacherMan]

A close up pick of the fox set 😉

[TeacherMan]

Checked my lower line today and pulled most of it, missed a wolf, ducked off the trail 10' prior to a snare following bunny tracks. Dragged a beaver carcass on one trail and just dug out sets from new snow and horrible winds... AK is a black and white world this time of yr. 

[Special T]

On the trails that you don't use your snow machine do you pust pull a kids/cargo sled to pack the snow down?

[TeacherMan]

On the trails that you don't use your snow machine do you pust pull a kids/cargo sled to pack the snow down?

All my traps are in a backpack. I pull a frozen beaver carcass lol. Breaks down all my tracks and lays a scent trail. Helps keep animals on my trail long enough to get them in a snare 😉

[jackmaster]

teacherman are there any blacktail where you live? do you hunt anything besides what you trap?

[TeacherMan]

teacherman are there any blacktail where you live? do you hunt anything besides what you trap?

No blacktail in my area. Only moose, black and brown bear and wolves. If I travel a couple hrs north I can get into caribou as a resident I can hunt them. To get into blacktail I have to fly out into PWS or head to Kodiak. Or head way south!

I do hunt but the hunting in AK for the normal joe is not the best. Everyone has the toys to do it! I've got a new 6x6 all decked out this year and I can get 60 miles back into wild country and still run into guys all day. YOU NEED A PLANE!