AK trapping season has started!

[TeacherMan]

That 330 blind set was on several sets of otter tracks 

[Michelle_Nelson]

When will you stop trapping fox and lynx?

[TeacherMan]

 I'll stop the end of Febuary ish. It's open till end of March but hides start to get split ends bad. The fox will almost start looking rubbed.

When will you stop trapping fox and lynx?

[TeacherMan]

In the middle of a cold snap, finally started to warm up a little today, -16 felt good. There has been a few animals moving but I think most are hunkered down. My water trapping has been interesting due to overflow. There was 4" of running water over the top of the ice today. Just keeping my sets unfrozen and functional.

[JODakota]

Looks awesome man, Reminds me of back home in ND. Hopefully I'll be up in your neck of the woods in the fall!

[TeacherMan]

Well the person that got me into the outdoors as a kid, my dad had been visiting and running my line with me for the last 4 weeks but he had to fly back to WA tonight. So I pulled more than half my line today, it was a little bittersweet, its just not the same without him. At times this season with snares I've had over 100 sets out. With marten closed back on the 31st and another 10" of fresh snow today I was starting to feel the time crunch, plus its only going to be a matter of time before I really get stuck in my jeep. I had two sections of line that I had to bust out a couple miles every check with the bumper of my jeep pushing snow, I had to use my winch several times. A person can only take so much 

I've still got out my otter sets and about a dozen good foothold sets for fox, about a that many good snares. I start training for my second job the 14th of Febuary, I want to spend a little more time with my wife and girls between now and then. So my free times about to come to an end for a while. I'll keep everyone posted still on how I do for the next month on my one last stretch of line, maybe I'll even put some cool jeeping pics up 


thanks for all the support this season.

Chris

[Machias]

Thanks for taking us along, I really enjoyed it!!!

[Camp David]

  It has been fun being a (frozen) fly on your wall watching this from afar.

[TeacherMan]

I still have a few good sets out that will hopefully produce a couple more animals. I would like to pick another lynx up but fox and otter are my target animals. I think I will leave some of my 330's out until the end of March, end of otter season. The sets have evolved over the season that is for sure! This 330 set is the same as one I've posted before but now we have a couple more feet of snow. Little more info on it, its in a 20' wide river bed that is literally narrowed down to the width of that 330, talk about a funnel point!

[Machias]

Where I learned and grew up trapping, 330s always had to be underwater or 6 feet up, but we had to worry about pets and hunting dogs, obviously that's not an issue where you trap.  Have you thought about sliding your trigger over a little more to one side?  I have much better luck when my triggers are not centered.  Just a thought.

[TeacherMan]

Machia that is a good idea! I've done that before. With them centered I still catch smaller animals like marten and mink. You should see what a 330 does to a mink 

[Machias]

Oh I bet, I've seen what they do to muskrats!! 

[rasbo]

crows 2

[TeacherMan]

No camera on me today but put another red in the shed. Nothing unusual about that except, I got him in a 330 bucket baited with fish  Its not normal for the fox up here to put there head in a bucket.

[saylean]

Very nice teacherman! I appreciate the posts! Love these trapping threads. My grandpa used to trap over in South Dakota years ago, it was always great to hear his stories. This reminds me of him.

Be safe out there! Good luck on a wolf! Those reds are knarly!