Alaska Wolverine and Wolf Trapping 2023 (Episode 7) 

Glad your enjoying the videos. We have moose, caribou, bear, bird hunts as well. Its our pleasure to share this with yall.

No problem Mike. Thank you for watching and commenting. Happy New Year to you and yours

Nice! I have heard something about that a long time ago. But the next one I open up I will definitely pull it out. Thanks for watching and the info!

Thanks. Another great year of trapping.

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 That's all we can hope for, no guarantees in life. God Bless

@@alaskansonthefly2737 god bless you as well👍

Yeah I had a great season

Oh yeah she was amazing. She passed in 2007 at the age of 95+ worked hard every day of her life. Thanks for commenting.

Oh yeah amazing day. No problem! Happy to do it.

Thanks. I try to make it as easy to watch as I can

Thanks for watching. God bless you and yours as well. Been a great season so far

Thank you sir. God Bless

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed👍

Thanks for watching! WOW Lake Superior that’s awesome. Have a blessed day!

Thanks! Yeah this has been a bit of a different season then the last few, definitely a good amount of different animals. I’m still hoping that otter that crosses my line every year comes sliding through. You have a good one as well and good luck on your trapline, you have some beautiful country.

Oh yeah no problem, happy to do it. Thanks for watching and commenting👍

Thanks, glad it turned out good

Much appreciated. Glad to hear my work is paying off. 👍

Thanks. Yeah well made gear and awesome materials will last for a long time.

Glad you liked it, have a good one

Yeah it’s been a very blessed season. Thanks for watching! Maine, very cool. I was on a podcast with a guy from Maine. Trapping Today.

Glad you enjoyed. Have a good one

Thanks for watching. Yeah I want to do a bit more fur handling stuff, I’m just a bit worried about RU-vid. I’ll make sure to put together a couple videos in the coming weeks. Thanks again and have a great day

Thanks yeah I’ll definitely treasure these mitts, the way I know you treasure you afghan. Back in the day a lot of handmade gear was given not sold, and what you said about how your grandmother would think of the person is the definition of made with love. God bless and have a good day, thanks for writing.

Thanks! Welcome to the channel. I have a few trapping videos on my channel here. Got the next episode filmed. We caught another wolf and a wolverine. Have a good one

Thanks for watching! Got a couple move videos to put together👍

Cool! Thanks for watching bro. Glad you enjoyed, gotta be happy surrounded by gods creation and no asphalt within 130 miles. Have a good one

Cool! Yeah another great check. I have two more videos to edit together. I’m falling a bit behind

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 I just put up the last one of the season

@@mountainlifewithdavidkelsie heck yeah! watching it right now while my wife cuts my hair. That is one thick bobcat.

Thanks. Been a great season so far

Much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed👍

Thank you! Glad it’s been a busy season to share on RU-vid. Thanks for the like and comment! Have a great day

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 You're welcome!! I'm sure you're not complaining about it being a busy season lol Glad to see you catching good this season!! And have a great day also

@@oneshotme lol. I was saying I’m happy it had been busy. Slow seasons happen and don’t make for good videos.

@@oneshotme thanks

Oh yeah thanks. How many wolves you pulled in this season?

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Eleven bud pretty decent year for me hopefully a new pack or two moves in by next winter or I won’t have to many to chase

Thanks for watching! And will do!

Thank you sir. Been a great year so far.

Thanks for watching both work great for trapping. Best bait for lynx is lynx.👍

Thanks. All the hard work paying off is great.

Yeah great gear. I ended up stinking this jacket up at a shop fire at my neighbors house. Gotta pick up another before next season. Have a good one and thanks for watching

Amen brother! Thanks for watching, only a few months left until the next season. Have a good one

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Alaskan native?👍

@@Anti-Fake-ul9oe Dehi’ Gwich’in Athabaskan 🫡

Thanks. It’s great to see alot of hard work pay off. Have a good one

Thanks! It’s been great sharing my Trapline with y’all

Thanks! Yeah I have some game cams I need to get out there. Have a good one

Thanks bro I try! Yeah some really long lasting mitts, and with proper care they will last a heck of a lot longer. Those mitts get locked up during the summer months. I have the next episode filmed with another wolf and wolverine. It’s gunna be great. God bless y’all as well.

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 oh man looking forward to it!

@@southernrootsalaskanbranches7 oh yeah I filmed how I put together a wolverine 330 set as well for the next one

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 oh awesome bro! I appreciate that! I need lots of help in that area especially!

Oh yeah hard to beat a day out in the woods. Made a few more catches since I recorded this video. A few seasons are coming to an end, but there will always be something out there to keep me busy.👍

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 yeah, I'm done at the end of March, that's our season close. There's a few things we can trap all year, but I quit when most of the seasons close

Thanks I filmed the next couple videos and I show the mitts she made for me. She does fine beadwork as well. I’ll try an get some of that on video some time.

Nice! Thanks for watching. 25 below zero here right now. It will be a while before 60 here. Have a good one

Thanks. Hope you make it out soon. It’s great being out on the land. Oh yeah I’m glad to share what I know. Have a good one.

Heck yeah. Always awesome out in the woods.

Ah man yeah if I get somebody passing through sometimes I won’t connect with anything. But in some areas closer to heavily used roads n trails animals aren’t as worried about traffic as much. Here I can put trail snares in and block access to areas I don’t want people driving. Technically they can move the snare and drive through but most don’t. Thanks for watching.

Thanks I’ve definitely been blessed on my Trapline over the years

Much appreciated! It takes a while to put these videos together. Thanks for the feedback. I have the next episode filmed and waiting to be edited. Have a great day.

Haha I know right. My uncle has used that with amazing results. He said at blueberry patches are wiped out by marten in the winter

Oh man! My dad and my brother used him hem for decades I kinda claimed them a couple years back. I usually sell them, I’ve been blessed to make back what I’ve put into trapping for years. I plan on sending a couple of each animal to a tannery this summer so my wife and I can start making parka ruffs and mitts. Thanks, life is to short to be angry. Have a good one!

Hi Todd welcome to the channel. Glad you enjoy the videos. My main line is 30 miles long and shorter line surrounding the village. On years with decent fur prices I run longer lines. Thanks and god bless you and yours as well

Yeah it’s been a great season. I’m a few videos behind so this last one was from a couple weeks ago. Not many people trapping only when marten prices are good. Which they haven’t been in years. But if they were there would be at least 4 of us. Right now I’m the only one running a line. A few others have traps and snares set up where they haul firewood but I don’t think they would consider themselves really trapping. Back in 2016 when I picked trapping back up again I absorbed a lot of trails that had been left behind and forgotten. At one point in time every snowmachine/dog mushing trail leaving Venetie in every direction had a different family trapping it. But that was in the hay day of trapping when one lynx could bring in almost a thousand dollars and a blue fox could be 1400$.

Thanks. Will do. Have a good one

Glad I’m able to share my world here online. 20-30 lbs with the largest I’ve caught being 49lbs. Yeah the simplest sets work best because any disturbance can cause animals to shy away.

Yeah great check! Oh man I’ve been blessed with scrap wild game. Yeah it’s amazing how long a hand made piece of gear can last. My 80$ nice carhartt gloves are already showing wear and I only wear them while checking traps. Yeah I have the book, amazing stories about a much different world. Serious wolf hunting and trapping back then. You could make a living in those times

Yeah three in one check is awesome. We get mostly black bears here and grizzly’s in the mountains north of here. I hope I’ll have time to go look around before the snow melts. They will start to wake in the first week of April

Thanks for the input. Sometimes When I’m rolling I can get a bit ahead of myself. Have a good one

A lynx can have a wingspan and reach as long as me and I have a 6’ wingspan. That 3’ they can reach back toward you at least that far and their paws spread out can be as big as my hands. They don’t always reach at you but I’ve had a bunch as soon as you get them they reach straight at you. Lol thanks bro, yeah here I was raised that you never shoot a Lynx in a trap. Wolf, wolverine it’s ok. Back in the day they would just use their axe handle

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 haha they are just cuddly cats…

@@mountainlifewithdavidkelsie I can guarantee you EG is not scared of these animals. You have to be cautious living hours away from an ER. Plus I think the pole needs to be longer to be sturdy. Did you dispatch a lynx with just a cable?

@@eg.wife1441 that’s all I use it a couple feet of cable to dispatch bobcats… just the same as a lynx

@@eg.wife1441 I do understand being so far from an ER I was just giving the bro a hard time

Yeah I’m getting great feedback. Welcome to the channel! Got a few more trapping videos coming.

Ah man that’s a difficult one. Wolves are a tough animal. Did you do it with a pole with a snare or support wire and a snare?

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 pole and snare

@@deadpinecollective can you bring someone with you that can carry a gun? Seems like that’s a safety concern to not be armed. I’m guessing you have moose in you area right?

@@enigmaticgwichin1630 I can’t carry right now because of having students. We are working to get it changed.

Only completeley heartless people use neck snares and catch poles to choke animals to death. Doing it in front of kids is even more messed up. You are all horrible people. I bet you have a throbbing in your pants while you watch them suffer in the neck snare...

Thanks for watxhing

Thanks!

So with wolves fur buyers pay anywhere between 100-600$ for a pelt. Then from there it has to be tanned. So that costs them 50-100$. So most tanned wolf skins I’ve seen for sale go for 500-1000$. There are a lot of factors though that go into the cost of a pelt. Thanks for asking👍

Yeah a snare at the end of a strong 8’ pole. They go really quick, can’t really show that on RU-vid. Thanks for watching. God Bless