A commercial salmon dip netting tutorial taken place on the Yukon river June 2014. Music by"The Scorpions" Wind Of Change. no copyright infringement intended
Great video again! Very nice to get these youtube-trips to Yukon now and then :) Also good to see they are trying to take care of the salmon population.
yukonjeffimagery I think dipnetting salmon is not allowed here, but it looks like a good choice for selective fishing. I've been dipnetting only once in my life years ago, it was a small fish i think it's called Smelt in english.
Yes these dipnets allow you to be more selective and do work pretty good if the fish are there, we also dipnet smelt here they are awesome good little guys I like them smoked of fried. Well we are having beautiful weather here in western Alaska I am going out dip netting again today and hopefully work on my fish smoking video here soon the fish is almost done :)
yukonjeffimagery btw, you are so convincing in the video the company should pay you for advertising them ;) High quality product, responsible and gentle fishing method, ... Or someone should hire you to advertise something Alaskan :)
cool video jeff buddy. I am a fisherman from prince Edward island Canada. never had salmon before but I bet smoked salmon is a 1. most smoked fish is the very best. cool fishery you have buddy. we don't have a salmon fishery here only rod and reel but must let the fish go.
Thanks Robbie Yes smoked salmon is awesome, these salmon run all the way up the Yukon river into Canada 2000 miles . We are near the mouth of the Yukon River where it empties into the Bering Sea and with such a long run they have to pack on the oil to make the trip so these fish have the highest oil content and omega 3 of any Salmon anywhere. They melt in your mouth like butter :) Stay tuned we are working on a Fish smoking video doing the traditional dry fish should have it up in a few days I hope.
In Yellowknife for two weeks working logistic on all the fires down here. Getting bored in the evenings post some videos be nice to see a place that's not on fire. Really yellow and stink around here.
Hey Muskrat ! Hope you are saving the world the last fire I was on was in Washington state for 30 days it was hot and dusty I retired from FF shortly after that. Still fishing here but with gillnets now not getting rich but having fun on the river. The cranes and geese are fling over the house so that will be my next adventure hunting geese here in about ten days I will try to bring the camera and hope to get some of it for ya...stay cool! :)
I'm just doing logistics. Too slow for Initial Attack. And too old to be pulling hose. But It was realy miserably yellow and snink the first few days I was here. 135 fires burning right now in this region. Be home next week my son is hunting caribou, lucky kid. Berries probably all over ripening to. You been out to your patch yet?
muskrat411 So you get to sit back in the shade now and watch that's cool :) Its been wet here but these guys are leaving on a fire here in the next couple of days not sure where they are going some where in the lower 48 most likely Cali,Washington, Idaho, Oregon some where in the West. I was out picking salmon berries but we only got about a gallon and now they are all gone we had a very dry summer here so that hurt the berry production so no video :( we will go out for blue berries here this weekend if the weather is good but not a lot of those either.
I'm working 11 hours a day, mostly bussing people around my logistics gig got pushed to the back once they found out I had a class 4. Use to drive cab. Having a hard working trapper doing errands for ya comes in handy when the region is on fire. Been to Betchoko twice in a week now. 100 km each way.
muskrat411 Right on Muskrat sounds like easy money beats packing up and down the mountains with a chainsaw. I have a CDL class B for operating trucks and heavy equipment spent a lot of my life on a dozer kind of retired from that makes you old fast.
Thanks Roderick it sure is nice to be on the river and able to pay the bills. We are hoping to get to use our gillnets here soon and then we make a little better money.
That boat is a 24 ft Alumaweld I like the size of the boat and its nice to work out of but they are not built good and the welds break on the ribs. I would not recommend them for that reason. Kwikpak Fisheries in Emonnak AK makes a much better aluminum skiff. Thats what folks here use mostly.
Thanks these boats are Alumawelds made in Washington I believe its a 24 ft they do have problems with the welds on the ribs cracking but I like it in big waves and its roomy for fishing I also have a 18 ft Lund for hunting and running around when needed.
At least the fisherman can release the chinook using the dip net method. That is, if the chinook fishery hasn't permanently tanked from the years and years of relentless "petal to the metal" commercial gill netting. God, that would be a tragedy. Maybe Alaska should consider limiting gill nets and mandating mouth tangle nets until the stock status can be determined.
Yes the King release was the whole idea behind the dipnets. as far as the fishery for kings it was not overfished IMO I fished or bought fish for 30 yrs and the openings would only be for 6-12 hrs fishing perhaps twice a week so was not balls to the walls overfishing as the numbers were down in many major rivers in Alaska not just here on the Yukon.. I imagine the high seas incidental catch in other fisheries was and still is a bigger problem, we did manage to get past the high end of escapement this summer so hopefully things are turning around for the King Salmon.
+yukonjeffimagery Haha no doubt!! I fished for them off Vancouver Island with a pole..I was reduced to rubble after 4 days, their power is unbelievable. They call the big ones tyee's...I was one tyee'd man after that trip!! Check out my video if your bandwidth will let ya.
Yes its about the color of chocolate milk in the summer its not pollution it is silt (powdered rock)and mud that creates sandbars that erode back into the river keeping it muddy all summer,but it does clear up considerably in the winter when the ground and other small creeks are frozen.
A fisherman here in Aklavik got 2 chum salmon in the Peel Ch. just across from my house. So the run is starting here also. Salmon are only occasional migrants to the Deta and not managed. DFO is studying them though. I did not dig the rock on this one. The Iatolla of Rock n Rolla must be mellowing! Did you check out my muskrat humting vid? Did I tell you I tried ordering stips from that place and they could not send them? Look delicious though.
Well I hope you guys get a decent run this year ours seems to be good this year And Muskrat I had to tone it down a bit it was getting too hard core :) I will check out your M rat video been out on the river everyday recently head back out tomorrow.
The more salmon that show up in Aklavik will mean bigger bears in certain areas. Maybe when my boy is 15 the average size will be 8 1/2- 9 feet. Can't grow to 10 feet eating sik-siks and grass.
yukonjeffimagery Our run is usually 7 to 15 mixed salmon a year. We get: chum, Koho & Chinnok salmon. The chum and koho usualy in the summer and the Chinook in the late fall or under the ice. There is some evidence of salmon trying to establish in the mountain rivers. Be nice to get some of those huge salmon fed grizzlies, Hey RJmcleod21?.
rjmcleod21 Maybe we won't need to hunt grizzlies we will make all our trapping money commercial catching salmon Aklavik is even closer to the ocean than Yukon Jeff. Get super oily salmon. Salmon Wally Sticks will be all the rage.
muskrat411 Muskrat you guys must be pretty far North I know the Northern part of AK in the Arctic don't get salmon as far as I know they get a lot of big char they be good frozen fish dipped in seal oil we only have a few small ones here. I guess you need to pray for global warming and someday you will have salmon and big bears :)
Why does the SOB have to be so cruel to the fish, ripping a gill then letting them die slowly. I am a fisherman, and if I am keeping a fish for the pot, it gets a quick knock on the head with a priest - far more humane!
