Alaska Wolverine and Wolf Trapping 2023 (Episode 10)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Wolverine,Wolf and Lynx trapping in the Yukon Flats, Alaska. North of the Gwich’in village of Venetie, under the Brooks Range Mountains over 60 miles north north of the Arctic Circle. South of ANWR, ALASKA National Wildlife Refuge. Filmed on a GoPro Hero Black 9 and iPhone 11. While driving a 2020 SKANDIC 600ACE Wide Track. Bridger #5 double long spring and coil spring wolf traps. FPS and Duke 330 Conibear wolverine traps. 1/8 and 3/32 aircraft cable wolf snares. 7by7 and 1by19 cable. With #9 tie wire for support wire. Carrying a DPMS Ar-15 in .556 NATO. Winchester 22 longrifle, marlin 22mag, Sig Sauer 1911-22 pistol. Sled is UHMW plastic from Northern Sled Works.
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Love your enthusiasm in your videos,in the good and the bad. Love that you thank the Lord for what you receive. Keep up the nice videos
Thanks! Yeah got give thanks🙏 I’m blessed everyday. I definitely will. God bless thanks for watching
What rifle do you pack with you on the line, and do you carry any communication devices when traveling solo ? I enjoy the videos thank you for sharing 👍🏻
@@eltonh8193 I carry a .556 and a .22 mag for rifles and .22lr pistol and my .45 ACP on my hip
Another excellent video and good throw at 5:09
Really impressive catches! Your videos make it look like fun, but I know it's also a lot of hard work. Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks, yeah a lot of work for sure. But well worth it. Thanks for watching👍
Oooo man very nice wolverine!! That's mine 😢😅😅
Thank you for the video bro. See you on the next one.
Thanks! Working on the next one. No wolverine but it still should turn out good👍
I arrived here from Andrew Stanley's videos. I must say I like your style. Those catches in this video or some of my favorite critters. Great job
Oh yeah he was one of the first channels I subbed to years ago. Thanks for watching🫡
My new favorite channel!! Miigwetch
Awesome! Welcome aboard, trapping is still another month away, I have a fishing video and grizzly bear hunt and an elder interview coming in the next weeks. Thanks for the sub and if you have any questions just let me know. 👍
I really enjoy your content Nice links. Keep on going beautiful country. not too much snow but it’s right👍👍👍👍🙏
Thanks for watching. Yeah we sure love it up here. We don’t get a lot of snow here less than 3’ overall. Have a good one
this was a great check,,can't wait for the next video!!!
Yeah a really awesome check with 4 catches. I hope to finish the next video in a week. Thanks for watching👍
Great job on that video, Nothing I can suggest for improvement. All good stuff.
Thanks. I’ll keep it going. I’ll be uploading till the end of April if not further out
Cool,first cross fox I can remember seeing on TH-cam
Awesome. We get a variety of different colors from red to black, silver, cross, and the rare blue. If I had a market to sell fox I would trap more
New to the channel. Great video! Nice catches. Looking forward to checking out more videos.
Welcome! Thanks for watching and taking the time to write. God Bless
AWESOME VIDEO 👍
Thanks! I’m glad it turned out good with all the catches.👍
👊👊 Great catches awesome stuff
Thank you sir. Trapping is about done for me but I have a bunch of footage from at least another 3 Trapline checks left to put together. Have a good one
Videos are always good. Happy new year
Much appreciated 🙏. A happy 2024 to you as well
i always look foward to the next video,thanks for taking us along.
Thanks. I’ll be working on the next really soon. I’m glad our I termed is good enough to upload this video.
Missed it! Darn! Awesome vid brother! God bless yall!
Ah man TH-cam only notifies me when your livestreams are done, it’s weird. Thanks bro, the carnival is going on but I’ve been busy helping keep the lights on here in the village. God bless you and yours as well👍
Wow man, 3.8 k views in a day. You have been pumping out great content for a couple years now and the blow up is happening. Congrats on your hard work getting recognized!
Appreciate it! Yeah it’s been a lot of work but we’ll worth it. Lots of content to film this year. I just subbed your channel. Got me planning out some target practice in the morning👍
Joel Spenard here.
Love to see the traditions stay alive. 💯
Hi Joel! Thanks, I try my best to pass it on to others as well. God bless
Great to see your still at it
Thanks. I have another 3 videos filmed right now. So I’ll be putting out trapping videos once a week for a while. Have a good one
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 perfect will be looking forward to them
Great time viewing, as always. Thanks and the very best to you and yours, 'til next time...
Thanks. More on the way hopefully have it done by next week. God bless you and your family👍
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Nice and thanks...
Awesome video you were really blessed indeed.
Yes I am! Thanks for watching.👍
Oh what could have been lest the zhaaganosh coming via the Mayflower. I can live vicariously thru your adventures
Toronto ojibway. Grandfather of 2. Baamaa pii.
Another awesome video! I especially enjoyed the music at the beginning, it seemed to fit very well!!!
Thanks! I use a app called “Epidemic Sound” it has a crazy amount of music to dig through. Glad I found one that really worked out. Thanks for watching
Awesome trapping congratulations from the north slope
Thank you Joe. How is the weather up there? It’s been slowly warming up here in the Yukon Flats! Can’t wait for geese hunting. We’ll be getting the boats ready to go when the ice is half melted. Still more than a month away. Have a good one
Great job all around. I have always found the harder I work the more luck I have. You should be a very lucky guy. Thanks
Thanks. Very true! When it comes to trapping I’ve seen that for sure. But you gotta have animals around as well. Thanks for watching
Awesome video!!
It’s great to enjoy your experience 😎💪🏻🇺🇸
Glad you enjoyed it! God bless!
Awesome vid ! Thanks for filming it and thanks to ''The Boss'' for putting it togeather ! 🤣
Thanks. The wife didn’t edit this one but she’ll be editing some soon. Thanks for watching. More to come. I caught another wolverine at the end of the season the other day. Have a good one
Great content as usual. Nice crown on that wolverine.
Much appreciated! Yeah that wolverine was a beauty! Thanks for writing
Always thumbs up 👍
My appreciated! Have a good one👍
Another awesome trap check bro God Bless
Appreciate it. God bless you and yours as well. Thanks for watching
I echo Holger!! Great content, The music mix is great and your positive attitude is infectious!!! Keep them coming!!!
Les from Eastern Oregon.
Thanks! Can’t be negative in the middle of this freedom! Many more videos to come. Thanks for commenting👍
Good catch 👍👍
Thank you very much! Great day in the woods.👍
Another great video Gary. Loved it.
Thanks Michael! Glad you enjoyed. I’ve been filming some other stuff around the village as well. Oh yeah we’ll have a livestream in a couple days👍 have a good one
Yeah ever since winter snow has moved to some were elsewhere we don't get that much snow just barely like a foot or seen so much changes in my village in my village wish we had your kind of snow lucky I use to be a hard core hunter until the snow conditions change but I'll keep you updated on it and yes can't wait for the geese to fly and out spring don't last vary long anymore lots of changes big time with lots of oil rigs close by our village sucks big time love all your videos you make awesome
An that’s to bad with the low snow. Must be frustrating. I pray you have a Blessed spring bird hunt👍
Great stuff my friend! Be safe out there!
Thank you sir! Will do. I’m behind on editing so this was filmed a while ago. I’m working on the next video now. Have a good one
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Right on!
Another great video , really enjoy your content, take care buddy , God bless ya !
Glad you enjoyed many more to come! God bless you and yours as well
Great video, thanks for sharing your time in the trapline.
Thank you sir. More to come. Have a good one👍
I watch Robert Bidine the Res Trapper and he sets a lot of ''trail'' snares and does very well with them. He lives in Hope BC I think. You might try more of them. I;m from Junction City Oregon. I enjoy your videos.
Yeah I watch his videos. Great stuff
Yeah on years we’re hitting lynx hard I’ll put trail snares in a handful of places. Thanks for watching 👍
Echoing some of the comments already made, another great informative and entertaining video! Music selection, editing and content is going to build your subs. Keep it up!
Thanks a bunch! I work hard on the editing, I’m glad it shows! Have a great day
I enjoy your videos so much. Very informative and entertaining. The videos Somers in Alaska did about your village were awesome. I especially like seeing your dad. What a great guy.
Thanks. Yeah Bert is a great guy. My dad is such a wealth of information it’s amazing what he’s been through and can still laugh. Have a great day and thanks for writing👍
Excellent work all the way around!
Thanks! Have a good one
Great catches Brother! The Wolverine is a real beauty. Thanks for sharing the adventure! Take care
Thanks! Yeah that one had a really blonde diamond. I’m glad you enjoyed. Thanks for watching bro!
Good story about the fox and the plyers, curiosity often gets the best of the fox 😊
Haha. I’ve had another fox dig out around and under a trap with the springs in the snow holding it up in the air still set. But like you said curiosity got him the next trap check
Your production on these videos just keeps getting better and better! Perfect catch on that wolverine - fantastic! Did you catch the fox in a foothold and then the cold got him? By the way, I haven't heard of a "cross" fox before - we have red fox here in Minnesota. Is that a fox cross between two species of fox? Oh, and a question for ya: If you were going out tomorrow and we could give you just ONE catch for the day - what would you prefer for that catch? A wolf, a wolverine or a lynx? Keep up the great work
Thanks. Yeah that wolverine didn’t even struggle. The fox got caught in a wolf trap. The temp dipped and of an animal hadn’t eaten recently they go in the cold in a day or two. Yeah cross is a color phase, fox here come in a bunch of colors. Orange and white. Cross usually has some black, silver which is black with silver guard hairs. Jet black and dark dark blue. So a catch tomorrow the best would be a river otter or coyote. But for the money it’s wolverine all day. I’ve only caught one river otter and coyote. Thanks for asking👍
I’m sure glad I joined the channel. Content is always great and your attitude is got to be one of the best out there. That’s a nice fox. Never get to see cross fox here. I hope it turns out well. Stay safe and good luck out there 👍👍
Cool. Glad you are enjoying the videos. I don’t have time to be anything but happy and grateful. Yeah that’s a cool fox. We get a real variety of different colors up here. Will do. Thanks for watching
Well done
Thanks. More to come👍
Another awesome day on the line. Later
Oh man every day out there is worth the time. But it really helps to make catches
Awesome catches brother! Love watching you roll down the line living the dream! Keep it up brother ✊🏽
Thanks Bro! I just started working on the next video late last night. I’ll do a live soon. Thanks for the encouragement
Just found your vids! Loving it so far !! Keep up the great work man .and a great attitude!! You rock!!😎
Cool! Glad you found the channel. I have a bunch of videos from last year. Moose hunting and summer life in the village. Thanks for watching
How the heck did that ermine get to that pan, wow. Little buggers. I remember one bit my boot on a float trip down the Karluk River. I was cleaning a Dolly Varden and it bounced out of the grass and bit my rubber boot.
Yeah it looks like he burrowed under the trap and set it off. Haha vicious little animals, he prolly thought he could scare you off.
I so enjoy watching each and everyone of your videos. Longlining in Alaska would be incredible. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to the next one!
Oh yeah my pleasure. It is something I took for granted trapping up here. I wish I had started years ago. It’ll be about a week to the next video. Have a good one👍
Well done young man. Your videos are inspiring and your attitude is infectious. Keep it up. And God bless.
Thank you sir. I try my hardest. God bless you and yours as well.
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Very nice presentation
Thanks. Much appreciated 👍
Great video congrats on the lynx boy they are real pretty critters and are those wolverines usually that big ?? Thanks for sharing and stay safe over there
Thanks! That one is on the larger side. Males are usually much larger than females. One of my trapping episode from this season has video of a huge wolverine alive in a trap. You gotta watch it I’ll find the episode and put it in the comments here
Episode 5 of 2023 trapping season has the big wolverine
Cross fox were my favorite fox to catch I like how beautiful their fur is. You got very much beaver in ur area? I just found d your channel haven't found a beaver trapping video but who knows I might be over looking it.
Yeah cross fox are awesome. We get fox in a bunch of colors. I’ve seen jet black, dark blue/purple, silver, cross( all kinds of color patterns, and orange white. We have beaver but there’s no market, it’s easier and cheaper to buy tanned beaver from a furbuyer then to trap and get them tanned. It’s still something I want to try out though.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Have a blessed new year👋
Another great video really good stuff. Have you ever set "flip up snares "? Learned about them watching Andrew but he's not running his line now so wld b cool to see someone else setting them.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks! Yeah I remember watching that on his channel years ago. If lynx is worth money next year I can get really creative on sets like that. It’s so cool that it works on wolverine as well. To bad Andrew hasn’t been uploading. Thanks for writing
Would have been funny if you had used the lineman plyers for bait to catch that Fox 🦊😅
Haha. I’ll try anything if it works. Thanks for watching👍 more trapping to come
As usual,very entertaining video. The wolverine is always a satisfying catch for a trapper. Also ,there is nothing like the anticipation of tracks heading towards a set.Also the disappointment of them leaving the trail!!😢.
Thanks 👍 yeah wolverine is the number one fur bearer now a-days. Ah when the track leave the trail never to return it is a bit disappointing. Have a good one
Dam warm weather grizzlies are up raiseing hell. Hit bait stations ate everything. Some woofs around probably season won't open up the first. Wouldn't dare set traps
Ah man we’ve had crazy warm weather here as well. For Grizzlies I got all of the stooges this fall. Went really well. Yeah your fish cops are just waiting to bust you, better off waiting. Had a pup pull out of one of my offset wolf traps last night
I had some offsets took a piece of three-quarter inch wide iron and welded on one jaw closed the gap and now it grabs them in 2 different places. Can't pull out.off sets are a joke don't releave pressure on the leg@@enigmaticgwichin1630
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 had 3 woof piss on one of my piss posts. 2 others hit a bait station. Doubt judge that stopped woof trapping will allow it this winter. Bears aren't going to bed until it gets really cold
@@KenCaudle I’m about to pull out that lure you sent me. Still haven’t opened it to smell it yet. I’ll smell it for the first time out on the line. I just made up 5 dozen wolf snares last night. Ran out of snare locks, I got in some relaxing locks when ordering off of eBay. I gotta pay attention, busy with work and buying parts didn’t mix this time.
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 must be getting cooler out on your picnic. Got woofs coming to bait start trapping one of these days got 3 marten
Those weasels never cease to amaze me 😂 what sight are you running on your AR?
Yeah he came up under the trap and got caught. I’m using a 20 year old Leopold 1-4 power scope. It has crossed over half a dozen rifles. Holds a zero great. It’s been under water, Under snow, snow machine crashes, 67 below zero. just about indestructible
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 I have one of those old school Leupolds, they don't make them like that anymore lol. I've been buying a lot of vortex the past few years, I've been happy with their glass, from binos to scopes to red dots.
@@Northwoods208 yeah I’ve been rockin a lpvo before they were cool. Yeah heard great things about vortex.
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 same here man, my grandpa gave me mine when I was a little kid on top of a Remington 788 in .22-250. I've been nothing but happy with vortex, and I'm not super nice to them (especially the red dots that my AR platforms tend to wear)
That weasel in the trap is hilarious!!! What’s the strategy with the small chunks of bait you toss. Is that close to wolf snares? Do you have any big bait stations or keep them smaller?
Yeah I don’t know why he was messing around in that trap. The bait was a few yards away. So with the small pieces I bait a bunch of random spots so the animal will get used to eating without a trap around then they come soon a set and they are less wary. Or I set the trap away from the bait and use the bait as a deterrent. Just a bunch of different set types and locations. So there are a few spots that I stop and chop bait but only a couple places with any real amount bait. An I usually set snares circling the bait. Thanks for asking I’ll use this question on my livestream in a few days. Have a good one👍
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 I like that. I do things similar but not as often as you. I will try that for next season!
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Thanks for watching👍
Hey man, I enjoyed the video. I’m up in Beaver getting traps ready. This is my 3rd year trapping out here and I have a question about your snare locations. Do you just walk trails behind your conibear sets and set snares on them? Or are you following previous wolf activity around your sets?
Awesome you found the channel, glad you enjoyed. Cool I’ll be in Beaver for the day on Saturday for a CATG meeting.
So I do both at Conibear sets. At Conibear set locations if I have time I’ll walk and pack down trails going behind the 330 set or on the other side of the trail giving wolves a path to take to avoid the 330. But if wolves punch out trails behind sets I’ll walk up and carefully hang a snare over their path, but their paths aren’t nice trails but just deep packed in foot prints so don’t hang the snare to high, think about where the bottom of the foot hole is then hang the snare accordingly. Oh yeah and as you trap the same areas make sure to remember where the wolves like to go and pack in trails and hang snare there before they get there, if you can. Alright if I can help with anything else just let me know👍
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 thank you for the help, I appreciate it! I’ve got more snare making supplies on the way. I have pretty good success with wolverine but I want to get more into snaring wolves, too many and way too close to town. Maybe I’ll see you this weekend. My wife and I both work for CATG but I don’t have to attend the meeting.
I have a good fish hole & caribou video to post but having lots of trouble posting. What are you using to edit your videos? Any caribou yet?
Oh no, is it your internet? I’ve been using iMovie on my wife’s iPad. And for the music, I’m subscribed to a website/app called “Epidemic Sound” caribou we’re moving this way but stopped across the river a couple here and there but not much to is side
Where did you get that carrying bag for your jet boil?
I picked it up at a gunshot a few years ago. I’ll dig it out later and get you the brand👍
On the cover of the bag it says “Maxpedition” just to let you know👍
Great video! What do you use as your dispatch gun?
Thanks! I use a Sig 22lr semiauto 1911 for wolverine and a 22 mag for wolves
How far is your line from Home?
It starts off right on the edge of the village and runs a 30 mile loop back to the village entering back in on the other side of the village. So that’s my bare bones line. On years when lynx are the main animal I run a couple different lines. Thanks for asking
Do you ever runinto a bear or wolves
The wolves are to smart to be bumped into in this thick brushy country. And the bears are all sleeping by the time i trap. But we do bump into both during the summer on boat. Its just really hard to catch those on video because they happen so fast.
Now woof huggers 5 groups inviros in Idaho have filled suit with endangered species grizzly 2 stop all woof trapping in Idaho
That’s some BS. They just have all the time in the world to pull this crap. Just dealt with the 3rd fire in 10 days up here. Just non stop busy. Those inviros should find something constructive to do
Bruins went 2 den have 10 sets out. Guess there is 7 in pack. No tracks yday. Cat hunters seen them 2 the south guess most are blacks. Gut birds won't leave my bait alone. So it's all piss posts 4 now 2 inches of snow if that. At least don't have 2 expect a bear around. Winter is always a spike in fires people use the milk house heaters cords get hot catch fire chimney's stuff hung 2 close@@enigmaticgwichin1630
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Great day in the woods
Why exactly do you catch these animals?
Do you truly want to know? I’m not trying to sound mad I’m just wondering.
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Yes, I do. It's not a rhetoric question, I am asking because I want to understand your reason(s), so I am trying to get myself informed.
@@karx11erx 👍 ok cool. Sorry about that, most that ask are not truly interested in learning about my peoples traditions.
So first and foremost I trap to carry on a tradition passed down to me by my father from his father and his father before him going back tens of thousands of years. I belong to a tribe that is part of the Gwich’in Nation. People from the outside call us Gwich’in Athabaskan. But we don’t consider ourselves Athabaskan but Nee’tsii Gwichin.
Second I love being in the outdoors. This is more of a lifestyle than a hobby. I put more time into trapping than get money out of it, but it’s worth it. Being out in gods creation is so mentally refreshing.
I do get some money out of this but I’ll never be rich or recover everything I put into it.
Predator control is a wildly important aspect of being a woodsman. Without the pressure I put on predators there will be more wolves that kill more moose and caribou. That means less moose and caribou to feed my people. Most cannot afford the expensive meat that is flown in to our village, so wild game is truly important to the elders and single parents in my village.
Thanks for taking the time to ask questions about my Indigenous peoples way of life. If there is anything else you would like to know let me know. Trapping is only part of what we do here throughout the year. I’ve only started filming our subsistence activities a little over a year ago.
I have videos from last year that give a glimpse into what we do from trapping, hunting, fishing, boating, work, search and rescue, construction work. I hope to film even more this year.
Thanks again and have a good one👍
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 I didn't want to judge you before knowing your motives, because many hunters seem to hunt for the thrill of killing and feeling powerful, which I loathe. I don't know whether you actually have to kill predators, because in a healthy eco system predators and their prey are in a balance, and it is human interference that destroys that balance - at least when the human population of an area grows unproportionally big. What I dislike about trapping is that it too often kills healthy specimens and also makes them suffer unnecessarily. I am not against killing animals to get food, but I am against making them suffer.
@@karx11erx Thanks for taking the time to ask. There are some that kill for the thrill and like you said to feel powerful. I live in a village of 200 people and all the villages surrounding mine combined population less than 1600, and when I was growing up in the 90s the majority of men were hunters and trappers. Guys are quick to tell stories of the crazy guys and the idiots, I never heard any stories about hunters and trappers alive that killed for nothing and trapped animals for the sole reason to make them suffer.
The only stories I heard of anything like that was when trappers and hunters did not know what they were doing and ended up wounding a moose or having a animal in a trap suffer. But once they were taught how to hunt and trap correctly those stories about them stopped.
So there are outliers for sure. I know there was a kid or two in every village that killed feral dogs for “no reason” or a bit to much, but loose dogs are a danger to children so there was a reason behind it.
I have also met hunters and trappers from all over the state and from the lower 48, and I can truly say that I have never met a trapper who did not do everything possible to make sure the animals they catch so not suffer. If an animal suffers it usually damages the pelt and the money it was once worth is not there anymore.
If anybody starts trapping I make sure to tell them how to target the animals they intend to trap because a properly trained trapper will have little to no animals suffer in their traps.
So environmentalists love to say that humans have a negative impact on wildlife. My people have been here for more than 10thousand years the hunting and trapping we do is an integral part of our healthy ecosystem.
No animal lives a long happy life in the wild. They fight kill and are killed just to eat. It’s a violent world of kill or be killed out there. Ask any trapper they will tell you about the animals they have caught that are covered in scars from a life full of violence. I’ve shot bears that have huge scars on their heads where moose have kicked them, most likely when the bear was attempting to kill their young. Wolves with broken bones and holes in their fur from being trampled and impaled from trying to kill caribou. Wolverine covered in bite marks from wolves trying to steal a kill.
There was a study done on moose calf survival rates in my area. Only 20 percent of moose calves survive the first year of life. So that means that 80 percent of moose calves are dragged away from their mothers who are kicking and body slamming the animals attempting to eat their offspring. Then they are dragged down by the throat and pulled apart and eaten with only teeth.
I’m not trying to be gruesome but since you are willing to listen I want you to understand that life in the wild is full of suffering, it does not justify the few killers out there that kill animals for no reason. I call them killers because that’s what they are. hunters do whatever they can to make sure the animals they hunt do not suffer, if there is suffering it actually effects the taste of the meat.
Thanks again for coming into this with an open mind👍
100? 😂
Thank you beautiful❤