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Nice job Sam!

Hope he had French DNA.


Travis

Rancho, I forget my phone this morning and didn't get your message until this evening. Must be ESP or whatever the hell that chit is called!


FJ, that is just an average dink. I got excited and shot Digglers little bro!

Saw his dad last night and thought he was him, that's my excuse anyway....grin

That fella in the crop duster...he ain't low. No limbs or green stains anywhere. BTDT. 'Nother story for a different day.

I got to say, y'all apparently missed out on the proper place for mud in a man's life. Surprised as chitt any of you would think about actually crawling in it. Walkin' sure, but crawl? Geesh!

I give you MUDGIRL!

Mojo, it totally depends on where you're at.

Riverbottom equals whitetails, get out in the hills a mile or two away and it's mule deer. Whitetails can be found out in the hills though as well. On buck tag per year, good for either species.



Thanks Flave!

He was porking another buck so I guess that makes him French?
(made that up, I would never shoot a gay deer)


DD, I'll let you tame that one!

And a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

Same to you Dan and all you other wankers!


I am thinking coyotes, pheasants and dry doe this weekend. Not in that order but maybe.

And I would take her....there is something very dirty about that lass.

Are you [bleep] [bleep] me??? I'll give you 20 bucks more than the douchbags at the gun counter will. Seriously....

We'll discuss your homosexual tendencies after I have the "said S&W" in my possesion.

That looks a lot like this plane. We loaded it with a million sockeye salmon fry and the pilot flew them to a remote lake to be released.

Apart from wings and colour they are not even remotely similar.

Interesting about the fry though.....is it regular practice to release fry in the States from the air?

It is in certain parts of Alaska. Here are a couple of shots of the inside of the plane. We piped in a couple of airstones that feed off a small tank and the pilot has a viewing window so he can monitor the health of the fry on the trip. They get dropped from about 100' or so. We tried dropping them right near the water and the speed at which they hit the water killed most of them, so we started dropping them from higher up and it gives the fry a chance to get oriented head-first.

Thank you Hank, that was very interesting.

The biggest reason I frequent these fora is that I get to learn the oddest of things from people from all walks of life.

Sure thing. We stock about 10 million fry into a remote lake every year. Doug Glenn is the pilot, heck of a guy. We have had moose and caribou run across the road in front of the plane before, Doug always says that gets the pucker factor up a bit. Here is a short video I took of him taking off. We shut down the road so he can take off and land. The plane is loaded with a million fry and about 500 gallons of water per trip. It uses a superprop and has some serious horsepower.



We try and avoid these suckers.




Just for kicks here is a video of a couple of humpbacks that were trying to eat the coho smolts we were holding in saltwater pens. You can see the line of bubbles they blow to corral the fish together.

Nice buck Sam!

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody.

Ok.

Send me $655.00


Travis

That is [bleep]' awesome Fishin'Hank!



Travis

'Hank that is awesome.

Congrats on the buck Sam.


Happy Thanksgiving.

Thanks Travis. The only thing lacking up here in AK are women, so send some up! I figure for every woman I get sent up I can put someone on some decent hunting. No brown bear, goats or sheep though since I am not a guide. But I know where to catch wolverines, marten, and otter.









Oh yeah, almost forgot about the kitty. First one caught in this area in 10 years.

Here is my trapping partner with our Lynx. He went on a goat hunting trip this past fall and took a tumble and didn't survive. It was pretty funny watching him try and walk through 5 feet of snow to come see that lynx in the 330 but he managed to do it. At first I thought it was a coyote but once I brushed it off I saw the stubby tail and I knew it wasn't a coyote. His family is getting it rugged. Still miss that dude. He did get a goat though, was on his way back down the mountain when he slipped and that was that.



He was 6'7" 375, so that gives you an idea of the size of the kitty. Here he is with another one of our wolverines, a smaller female.

That's bad ass! I've never used conibears out of the water like that. Looks like it works...

I can bring a bleeder in exchange for a black bear hunt. Or one of those orange antlered bastards.

I would ask Boxer, but I'm scared he'll 'bully' me or tell me to GFM.


Travis