Todd, I hear ya. I'm in the lower 48 in a state that absolutely has wolves completely protected. If you hit one with your car, you'd probably do 5 to 10 years. Meanwhile, the deer are disappearing, the moose are almost gone.
Yeah that’s horrible especially when wolves put pets/livestock in danger. Just last night I caught a wolf within 600 yards straight away from the last house on the edge of the village. They are an important part of the entire wildlife ecosystem here and I don’t want to wipe them out but banning trapping for them doesn’t help anybody
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 we traditionally had the smaller timber wolves and rarely seen when the government in its infinite wisdom brought in Canadian Grey's which are much larger.they destroyed elk herds,deer,killed livestock and attacked hunters.only took about five years of them reproducing before a guy shot one in self defense while archery hunting I believe.last year a friend lost around 40 Buffalo to wolves on his ranch,cattle ranchers didn't fair any better in the past.now you can hunt them year round I think but the damage they've done is unbelievable. Long range hunters have hurt them and reduced the numbers overall but the wolves have spread into other states as everyone knew they would except our wonderful fish and game biologists and politicians who went against hunters,ranchers etc!
See you have toques, do you sell them. My father use to trap and my brother did some trapping. So I am enjoying your channel. I never did get a chance to be taught by my father, as I was sent to residential school. You sure teach alot while out on the trapline. Greatly appreciated
Cool I’m glad my explanations are coming across clear. Thanks for watching. Dude the bison in your last video are seriously huge! Are you allowed to hunt them?
No those ones are penned. I have to travel north for 3 hrs to get to the buffalo hunting grounds. Some of the bulls up there are even bigger. I think my next hunt is and of April.
Thanks. Near the end of this video I put a sneak peak of the next video. I filmed the next check yesterday. I hope to have it up by the end of the week. Thanks for watching 👍
Thanks! No problem I forgot to show how you connect the trap to the drag but I’ll do that on another video. I checked traps last night and caught 2 more wolves. So I’ll be editing that video and putting it up by the end of the week. God bless you and your family as well bro!
Wow! South Africa! I’m pretty sure your the farthest from me to comment on my channel. Oh yeah welcome to the channel, I hope you enjoy, we’re in the middle of trapping season but we have a lot of cultural activities throughout the year we’ll be filming. I worked with a carpenter back when I was a teenager that traveled to South Africa and he said it was amazing. Have a great day
Thanks I’m glad it turned out ok. I filmed the next video last night and it turned out awesome. Thanks for the encouragement the next video will be out by the end of the week.
hello i am new here i watched a few videos from you ..and i love them you live in a nice state with your family ...we only have deer and wolves here (recently) that come from poland and germany and we have raccoons that's the biggest thing we have here.... greetings from the netherlands god bless you
@@janwillemnl ah ok. The coldest I’ve seen it here in my village was -72 Fahrenheit or -57 Celsius. I remember the smoke from peoples wood stoves would just fall back to the ground the low temp so far this winter was -58 f.
Great tutorial on the lynx set/cubby. The only thing I missed was what the trap was anchored to - was that a wood stick that the lynx would step over used as a drag pole?
Those critters can be tricky. Use a small branchy tree to lay on ground, with but end near your lynx pen, forming a funnel to place a snare or trap to catch animals too tricky to enter pen.
Oh yeah that sounds good 👍. When the lynx population is high I pack down trails surrounding the set and hang a few snares with bait. The video after next I’ll make sure to show how I make a double snare Lynx pen. Maybe I’ll put in a fox set as well. Thanks for watching and the input. Have a good one
Try Vicks mentholatum in your lynx sets works awesome as a call lure! Best wolverine lure I ever tried is laugemans big sky, but marten magnum is just as good! Awesome video good luck buddy, Lotta sign down here in the middle yukon.
Thanks for the info. I’ve heard of Vicks being used but never tried it myself. Bout time I put it out there. My dad told me they used to use womens perfume. So a few years ago I used cologne and perfume. I did make catches around where I used that. I’ll definitely look up these different lures. Thanks! I just took a screenshot of the lure names 👍
If u put your traps in white grocery sacks fast keeps the coil springs from freezing down. Just use broom to cover um up. If u preset use a drag takes few minutes and your gone
Try presetun ur traps. Use wire around dog and the jaw. Especially woof traps. Get ur hand caught 1 time. Saves lots time. Lay flat in sled. Less scent around set. Snip wire and good 2 go
Yeah I should start doing that. I tried for a while, especially with a trap I have with teeth, but I guess I got a bit lazy. Yeah I’m not ok with catching my hand. Thanks
Wolves are sharp, even if they haven't been trapped heavy they're still very paranoid and suspicious of anything they don't recognize. They give me fits often 😂
Yeah your exactly right they are really smart and wary of anything made by humans. I swear they smell 2-Stroke snow machines long after they have driven that part of the trail and avoid traveling on it if possible. It seems like they can detect magnetic fields the way they can spot out a trap or snare that is camouflaged. Their noses play a big part in what they do all the time. The wolves on my line avoid 330 sets after I caught a few in those wolverine sets. They also learn as they watch others step in traps and run into snares. So we as trappers have to work harder and always be willing to learn something new. That’s what’s great about TH-cam you can really skip over the learning curve if you follow the right people
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 you're absolutely right. Around here I haven't noticed them avoid snowmobile trails, but there's also a lot of them, this is kind of a destination spot in the 48 for riding snow machines. They do avoid boot tracks like the plague, and they seem to know what traps are meant for them...I've had them walk right up to a half submerged 330 and knocked it over out of curiosity, but also had them circle a good 6-7 foot out of their way to miss a snare you can't see in the trail at all lol
1 thing u might want to try. Get a small piece plywood draw a woof paw print on it. Take a dremel tool or grinder. Cut some of wood out so makes a impression. Get a clean broom screw woof paw on end. Can use broom 2 sweep out area 4 traps. Covering um up. Then put paw print directly on pan. Sweep ur way out putting tracks as u back out. Fools even the smart 1s
Ah man I thought about doing something like that before but I wasn’t sure what material would be best to make the paw part out of. Hadn’t though about the broom part. That would make an awesome TH-cam video. Thanks again for the pro tip👍
U can't tell the paw prints from a woofs if make a good paw out of plywood. Works really good at piss posts 2. Takes away suspicion and they'll step directly on pan
If u bend jaws on long springs towards dog more power lay flatter. I would use a.much.bigger drag in case a woof or wolverine gets in trap. Make you some out of 1x2 inch rebar long chains 10ft
I’ve done good with holding wolverine with these toggles. I’ve only ever held one wolf with this size trap and it was the smallest wolf I’ve ever caught at 50lbs. Wolves here will tear the trap to pieces, so I don’t bother with to big a toggle because if a lynx gets into this set I want him to be able to drag it around a bit. Yeah I have some pieces of rebar that I need to weld together to make drags. Only problem is they are so effective at stopping the trap. The one rebar drag I have got drug about 15’ before gumming up in low brush and I never used it again. I gotta say though for its purpose it works crazy well. Some day I’ll invest in more chain, but it’s pretty cost prohibited by the air travel being the only way in and out. Where is home for you?
I'm a ak timber cutter south east. Been all over ak. Nephews are ak guides gold miner. Trapped for 45 years. Own property in Montana by Canadian border. Its ruined so many people. You are lucky dont have all the regulations. Lynk are now protected same wolverine. Woofs have decimated the ungulates. They act like woofs are gods. Almost every road is gated. Just a matter of time all trapun in lower 48 be banned. Already is in alot of states. Price of fur and trappers giving up. No 1 to help kids 2 learn how. Fur harvesters last auction house left. Fish cops took and sprung bunch my woof traps last week. 4 no reason other than there woof huggers
You are getting a good amount of sets in. Should start picking up fur any time now. Amazing how much wolf traffic you have out there. I have a pack of 4-6 on my line but they only come through every 4-6 weeks which makes it hard planning for them.
Yeah it’s really different every season. The years when the caribou aren’t around I do good with wolves and years when they winter close I won’t catch much. The amount of time between their pass throughs are around a week this year. I caught 2 wolves on the last check. J hope I can finish that video by the end of the week. Man 4-6 weeks between is a huge space of time. Yeah that would be hard to plan for
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 that’s surprising about you not getting as many when the caribou are around. Figured they would be running all over then. Granted I have caribou in my area this year and the wolves are not hanging out.
I’ve used a bunch of different flagging colors but I don’t remember trying blue. I’ll add it to my eBay cart right now. Thanks! I’ll see if I can get a couple Pepsi cans this week.
At some point near the end of the season after everything is skinned and put up we can definitely set something up if you’d like 👍 thanks for asking I hadn’t thought to much about it. Have a nice day
Thanks for the input. I messed up editing the video to sound and just pulled all the music and put it back together a little quicker then I had hoped to. 👍
It’s a play on Gwich’in which is my Native Alaskan heritage. A lot of my people’s ideas and traditions have changed over the last 100 years. I’m here to show the mysterious side that not everybody sees. Trapping is just a part of what life in the Arctic entails, and is only 3-4 months of the entire year. Thanks for watching and commenting
Thanks for sharing your trap line and some of your techniques.
You are living my dream. I am stuck down in the lower 48 where for some reason people think wolves are precious.
Todd, I hear ya. I'm in the lower 48 in a state that absolutely has wolves completely protected. If you hit one with your car, you'd probably do 5 to 10 years. Meanwhile, the deer are disappearing, the moose are almost gone.
Not around my home town they aren't but yeah outside here they think that way but it is slowly changing. Idaho
Yeah that’s horrible especially when wolves put pets/livestock in danger. Just last night I caught a wolf within 600 yards straight away from the last house on the edge of the village. They are an important part of the entire wildlife ecosystem here and I don’t want to wipe them out but banning trapping for them doesn’t help anybody
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 we traditionally had the smaller timber wolves and rarely seen when the government in its infinite wisdom brought in Canadian Grey's which are much larger.they destroyed elk herds,deer,killed livestock and attacked hunters.only took about five years of them reproducing before a guy shot one in self defense while archery hunting I believe.last year a friend lost around 40 Buffalo to wolves on his ranch,cattle ranchers didn't fair any better in the past.now you can hunt them year round I think but the damage they've done is unbelievable. Long range hunters have hurt them and reduced the numbers overall but the wolves have spread into other states as everyone knew they would except our wonderful fish and game biologists and politicians who went against hunters,ranchers etc!
@@holgerawakens7784 Minnesota?
Epic video, thanks for sharing!
Thanks! It’s great to be able to show everybody what I do and how I do it. What program/app do you use to edit your videos?
Nice looking sets. Looking forward to your sled over flowing with fur.
Thank you sir, I’ll sure work hard to make that a reality. 👍
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
No problem thanks for watching
Awesome sets and good luck to you!
Thanks for watching, will do!
Really nice job explaining your sets. Very impressive video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed, I caught a 2 lynx a wolverine and a marten this last Saturday but I’m a couple videos behind editing. Thanks for watching
I really in joy watching your show, thank you. +
Thank you for watching. I’ll be working hard to capture my world and share it with y’all. Have a good one
Nice job! Thanks
Thanks for watching. The video of the next check will be out by the end of the week. Have a good one
See you have toques, do you sell them. My father use to trap and my brother did some trapping. So I am enjoying your channel. I never did get a chance to be taught by my father, as I was sent to residential school. You sure teach alot while out on the trapline. Greatly appreciated
I like the way you explain why you it certain ways. Thats cool. Thanks for sharing
Cool I’m glad my explanations are coming across clear. Thanks for watching. Dude the bison in your last video are seriously huge! Are you allowed to hunt them?
No those ones are penned. I have to travel north for 3 hrs to get to the buffalo hunting grounds. Some of the bulls up there are even bigger. I think my next hunt is and of April.
..Another great video. I can hardly wait for the next check. I like the music.
Thanks. Near the end of this video I put a sneak peak of the next video. I filmed the next check yesterday. I hope to have it up by the end of the week. Thanks for watching 👍
Awesome vid brother! Thanks for the pointers! Definitely need them! Lol. Looking forward to the next 1!! God bless yall!
Thanks! No problem I forgot to show how you connect the trap to the drag but I’ll do that on another video. I checked traps last night and caught 2 more wolves. So I’ll be editing that video and putting it up by the end of the week. God bless you and your family as well bro!
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 You are the Man! 👊🤛🤜💪
Well done
Thank you sir! I’ll have another video up from last nights check by the end of the week. Thanks for watching
Any day out on the land is a good day. Later and all the best.
Amen. Thanks for watching
Great job, keep up the good work.
Thanks! Being out in the woods is always awesome.
Very entertaining video. Eager to see the results of your next check!!
Thanks! I checked my line again last night and caught 2 more wolves! I’ll be editing the video and hope to get it up by Thursday-Friday
Fascinating! Such a different world from mine.From South Africa.
Wow! South Africa! I’m pretty sure your the farthest from me to comment on my channel. Oh yeah welcome to the channel, I hope you enjoy, we’re in the middle of trapping season but we have a lot of cultural activities throughout the year we’ll be filming. I worked with a carpenter back when I was a teenager that traveled to South Africa and he said it was amazing. Have a great day
Great explanation on the lynx set. Love your videos and commentary. Learning lots and confirming stuff I knew. Thanks and keep them coming!
Thanks I’m glad it turned out ok. I filmed the next video last night and it turned out awesome. Thanks for the encouragement the next video will be out by the end of the week.
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 awesome really looking forward to it. You explain things very well.
good trapping guy i hope you caught a lot.of fur on your sets i like your video to👍👍y
Thank you sir. Trapping got started late but it’s been going great. Working on a few more videos
Old cd's or dvd's on a string work really well! The old timers used aluminum pipe plates. Good luck!
Yeah they definitely do. CDs don’t tangle up like the flagging in this video can. Thanks for watching 👍
hello i am new here i watched a few videos from you ..and i love them you live in a nice state with your family ...we only have deer and wolves here (recently) that come from poland and germany and we have raccoons that's the biggest thing we have here.... greetings from the netherlands god bless you
Wow! Welcome to the channel. How low does the temperature get over there? Thanks for watching and god bless you as well!
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 in recent years it does not get colder than -7 Celsius
@@janwillemnl ah ok. The coldest I’ve seen it here in my village was -72 Fahrenheit or -57 Celsius. I remember the smoke from peoples wood stoves would just fall back to the ground the low temp so far this winter was -58 f.
Great tutorial on the lynx set/cubby. The only thing I missed was what the trap was anchored to - was that a wood stick that the lynx would step over used as a drag pole?
Thanks! Oh yeah that toggle is what the trap was connected to. I’ll make sure to add that in a future video. 👍
good luck,,hope you get some wolves!!!
Thanks! I’ll be working hard to catch the smartest furbearer up here. Hope you like the next episode
Those critters can be tricky. Use a small branchy tree to lay on ground, with but end near your lynx pen, forming a funnel to place a snare or trap to catch animals too tricky to enter pen.
Oh yeah that sounds good 👍. When the lynx population is high I pack down trails surrounding the set and hang a few snares with bait. The video after next I’ll make sure to show how I make a double snare Lynx pen. Maybe I’ll put in a fox set as well. Thanks for watching and the input. Have a good one
Try Vicks mentholatum in your lynx sets works awesome as a call lure! Best wolverine lure I ever tried is laugemans big sky, but marten magnum is just as good! Awesome video good luck buddy, Lotta sign down here in the middle yukon.
Thanks for the info. I’ve heard of Vicks being used but never tried it myself. Bout time I put it out there. My dad told me they used to use womens perfume. So a few years ago I used cologne and perfume. I did make catches around where I used that. I’ll definitely look up these different lures. Thanks! I just took a screenshot of the lure names 👍
If u put your traps in white grocery sacks fast keeps the coil springs from freezing down. Just use broom to cover um up. If u preset use a drag takes few minutes and your gone
Yeah I can try that. I like the idea of presetting my traps. I’m heading out on the line in 7hours I’ll set one and try it out
Try presetun ur traps. Use wire around dog and the jaw. Especially woof traps. Get ur hand caught 1 time. Saves lots time. Lay flat in sled. Less scent around set. Snip wire and good 2 go
Yeah I should start doing that. I tried for a while, especially with a trap I have with teeth, but I guess I got a bit lazy. Yeah I’m not ok with catching my hand. Thanks
Rite on bud 👊
Thanks! The next video will have a couple wolves in it.
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Looking forward to a hook up
@@gkhuntertrapper2738 where is home base for you? If you can’t say no worries
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Manitoba
Wolves are sharp, even if they haven't been trapped heavy they're still very paranoid and suspicious of anything they don't recognize. They give me fits often 😂
Yeah your exactly right they are really smart and wary of anything made by humans. I swear they smell 2-Stroke snow machines long after they have driven that part of the trail and avoid traveling on it if possible. It seems like they can detect magnetic fields the way they can spot out a trap or snare that is camouflaged. Their noses play a big part in what they do all the time. The wolves on my line avoid 330 sets after I caught a few in those wolverine sets. They also learn as they watch others step in traps and run into snares. So we as trappers have to work harder and always be willing to learn something new. That’s what’s great about TH-cam you can really skip over the learning curve if you follow the right people
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 you're absolutely right. Around here I haven't noticed them avoid snowmobile trails, but there's also a lot of them, this is kind of a destination spot in the 48 for riding snow machines. They do avoid boot tracks like the plague, and they seem to know what traps are meant for them...I've had them walk right up to a half submerged 330 and knocked it over out of curiosity, but also had them circle a good 6-7 foot out of their way to miss a snare you can't see in the trail at all lol
I use old clean plastic CD , work great on your lynx track . 😊
Yeah I’ve tied them up using fishing line and they spin and catch their eye really well. Thanks for watching. 👍
1 thing u might want to try. Get a small piece plywood draw a woof paw print on it. Take a dremel tool or grinder. Cut some of wood out so makes a impression. Get a clean broom screw woof paw on end. Can use broom 2 sweep out area 4 traps. Covering um up. Then put paw print directly on pan. Sweep ur way out putting tracks as u back out. Fools even the smart 1s
Ah man I thought about doing something like that before but I wasn’t sure what material would be best to make the paw part out of. Hadn’t though about the broom part. That would make an awesome TH-cam video. Thanks again for the pro tip👍
U can't tell the paw prints from a woofs if make a good paw out of plywood. Works really good at piss posts 2. Takes away suspicion and they'll step directly on pan
@@kencaudle7802 cool I gotta go dig out my dremel and give it a shot
U need to cut broom head off flat drill little hole in center 2 mount paw on with screw so don't split. No
If you want 2 no how 2 snare woofs and get a bunch at a time. Watch traping inc. Trapping with Morley. Guy really knows his shit
If u bend jaws on long springs towards dog more power lay flatter. I would use a.much.bigger drag in case a woof or wolverine gets in trap. Make you some out of 1x2 inch rebar long chains 10ft
I’ve done good with holding wolverine with these toggles. I’ve only ever held one wolf with this size trap and it was the smallest wolf I’ve ever caught at 50lbs. Wolves here will tear the trap to pieces, so I don’t bother with to big a toggle because if a lynx gets into this set I want him to be able to drag it around a bit. Yeah I have some pieces of rebar that I need to weld together to make drags. Only problem is they are so effective at stopping the trap. The one rebar drag I have got drug about 15’ before gumming up in low brush and I never used it again. I gotta say though for its purpose it works crazy well. Some day I’ll invest in more chain, but it’s pretty cost prohibited by the air travel being the only way in and out.
Where is home for you?
I'm a ak timber cutter south east. Been all over ak. Nephews are ak guides gold miner. Trapped for 45 years. Own property in Montana by Canadian border. Its ruined so many people. You are lucky dont have all the regulations. Lynk are now protected same wolverine. Woofs have decimated the ungulates. They act like woofs are gods. Almost every road is gated. Just a matter of time all trapun in lower 48 be banned. Already is in alot of states. Price of fur and trappers giving up. No 1 to help kids 2 learn how. Fur harvesters last auction house left. Fish cops took and sprung bunch my woof traps last week. 4 no reason other than there woof huggers
You are getting a good amount of sets in. Should start picking up fur any time now. Amazing how much wolf traffic you have out there. I have a pack of 4-6 on my line but they only come through every 4-6 weeks which makes it hard planning for them.
Yeah it’s really different every season. The years when the caribou aren’t around I do good with wolves and years when they winter close I won’t catch much. The amount of time between their pass throughs are around a week this year. I caught 2 wolves on the last check. J hope I can finish that video by the end of the week. Man 4-6 weeks between is a huge space of time. Yeah that would be hard to plan for
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 that’s surprising about you not getting as many when the caribou are around. Figured they would be running all over then. Granted I have caribou in my area this year and the wolves are not hanging out.
@@broncoformudv desperate wolves=more catches. I’m getting excited about the next check here in a day or 2
Blue ribbons are better than red. They did study on cats. A Pepsi can if you got any
I’ve used a bunch of different flagging colors but I don’t remember trying blue. I’ll add it to my eBay cart right now. Thanks! I’ll see if I can get a couple Pepsi cans this week.
What general are you in in Alaska? Gb
I’m in Venetie Alaska. 150 miles North of Fairbanks Alaska. About 50 miles north of the Arctic circle
Is there any way to buy some of your furs from you
At some point near the end of the season after everything is skinned and put up we can definitely set something up if you’d like 👍 thanks for asking I hadn’t thought to much about it. Have a nice day
Naizon. U should go buy a lotto ticket, u have 777 subscribers.
Haha I was able to get a screenshot of that! Thanks for watching!
Why the annoying music in the back ground making it hard to hear the voice. Annoying music not needed. The rest of the video is very good.
Thanks for the input. I messed up editing the video to sound and just pulled all the music and put it back together a little quicker then I had hoped to. 👍
What's so enigmatic about running a trap line? Not really impressed..
It’s a play on Gwich’in which is my Native Alaskan heritage. A lot of my people’s ideas and traditions have changed over the last 100 years. I’m here to show the mysterious side that not everybody sees. Trapping is just a part of what life in the Arctic entails, and is only 3-4 months of the entire year. Thanks for watching and commenting