Let’s Trap Alaska Ep. 1 (Trapping Begins)
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- Let’s Trap Alaska Episode 1 (Trapping Begins)
We are trapping in our Gwich’in Ancestral Lands on the NVVTG tribal lands that we are tribal members of. This series is here to document or cultural, and traditional way of life of our People in the GWICH’IN NATION.
Trapping for Wolverine, Wolf, Marten, Mink, Weasel, Fox, Beaver, Muskrat, Otter, Squirrel, and the Infamous Bigfoot (Lynx).
Trapping out of Venetie, Alaska 99781. On the northern edge of the Yukon Flats, under the Brooks Range Mountains about 50 miles above the Arctic Circle.
Driving a 2020 Ski-doo SKANDIC Wide Track 600 A.C.E.. Pulling a Northern Sled Works UHMW Sled.
Trapping with LongSpring and CoilSpring #5 Wolf traps. #4 #3 #2.5 long Spring Lynx Traps, 330 Conibear wolverine Traps. 110 Conibear marten-weasel-muskrat traps. 1/8th cable Wolf Snares. 3/32 wolf and wolverine snares. 1/16th lynx snares. RGB 330 round Conibears.
Filmed on a GoPro Hero Black 12, or 11 and 10. IPhone 12.
Guns: DPMS 556, Marlin 22 WMR, Winchester 22lr, SiSauer 1922 22lr, SigSauer P227 45 ACP.
Thanks for watching I pray this helps inform the world in how our people live and exist in 2024. God bless and be sure to like and subscribe. Let’s Hit It!
You have a hell of a memory to recall where each set is in the dark. ALSO kudos for always giving praise to the Lord, not like those who just give lip service.
That’s what we were waiting for…..snow, snow machine, traps along the trail and now the anticipation of what you’ll have tomorrow! Lovin it buddy! Let’s hope the Lord blesses you with full traps!
Oh man I’ll do my best to get the next one out a lot sooner👍. Thanks a bunch and god bless you and yours
Really enjoy your trapping videos! 🎉
Excellent day 1! Here we go!
Oh yeah. I have 3 more videos recorded just need to continue editing. Thanks for watching and writing
Hi from Canada .Your video is great .Thanks for sharing
Its great to see you back out on the trapline!
Thanks! Yeah it feels good to be out there. Editing the next video now. 👍
so well edited
Thanks for watching👍
I like your sets Gary, well thought out, you will do well! Thanks
Thank you sir🫡. Can’t wait for the next Trapline check
May God bless you and yours in your endeavors!
Thanks Big Al. It’s much appreciated! God Bless you and yours as well. God is Good, have a good one
Please continue teaching us and your youth. ❤
For sure 👍 . I do enjoy sharing what I know. God bless
Really happy to see you back out on the line. Looking forward to the next video.
Thanks man. It felt great getting out there. I’ve filmed 3 Trapline checks so far. Working on the edit from the next one now👍
Great video as always.
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it
Great tip on mashing the bait into the ground!
Yeah! It works great most of the time. I had a pain of a marten steal bait and snap traps for miles the other week. I did catch one hoping for another next week. Thanks for watching Ed. Safe travels out there🫡
Great content, as always, Gary.
Thanks for the watch and comment! Have a good one
Glad to see this bro ! ................ You have been going live waaaaayyyyy past my bedtime !!! 🤣😂🤣 Stay safe !
Thanks brother! My next video has a great catch. I’ll be hitting that edit as hard as I can the next few days. I try to do an early live but life keeps happening. Today the water treatment plant had a glycol leak we had to deal with. lol. See you again👍
I enjoy your content and presentation, keep working hard and may your traps always be filled with fur! Good luck my friend!
Thank you sir. All the hard work that went into to these is definitely worth it. At the end of the season I should have almost a dozen episodes. Have a good one
I used to set those 330s by hand back when I was younger. Those setters are the ticket
Yeah as the traps get older they get easier to set but one slip and that spring can really snap. Yeah I have a nice pair of 330 setters and they seem to have grown legs over the summer. lol. Have a good one
Great video. I love how you feed the line , what a great idea and its giving back to the critters .
Thanks! Yeah and the more small animal activity on the trail the better.
Great to see you back this season!!! Really enjoy watching you and your positive spirit in that tough land that you live in!!! Good luck on this new season!
Thanks! Gotta have a positive mindset when so free like we are here. Thanks for watching
Good video Gary. God willing traps are full
Thanks for watching. God bless you and yours🙏
Well done
Thanks! Have a great day
Finally. Thanks for posting. Always learn so much watching your videos.
I’m glad my videos are a help. Thanks for watching and god bless
Thanks, this is very interesting👍🏾 God bless🙏🏽 Brother
Hi bro thanks for watching. I’ve filmed a total of 5 videos from this trapping season, so I’ll start editing the next one tonight. God Bless you and yours as well. Have a great day
Happy to see you using that RBG 330 round trap, Gary. I'm excited to see how it works out.
Hey bro! Yeah it worked great. I’ll send you a photo of its catch here in a bit. Thanks!
Been looking forward to this video!
Hey bro! Yeah it’s been a while I start editing the next video tonight. Made some good catches so far. Have a good one
Great video editing as well
Thanks! I definitely try to make it enjoyable to trappers and non trappers as well.
Right On! Been looking forward to your line this winter Gary!! I started trapping Jan 5th. Last week I picked up my first wolf for 2024, a 90lb male. Now just off the stretcher and heading to the tannery soon. Good luck this winter and take care out there!
Yeah took a bit for the first video but the next ones will be closer together. Awesome congrats on the wolf! I have a few furs from last season that I still need to get out to a tannery. Thanks, good luck and god bless you out on you line 🙏
Can't wait to see what you get. Your positive attitude and good spirits make watching so fun. I am not far from retirement and am going to take up trapping again when I do. This helps keep the bug alive. I wish we could trap wolves here. We have so many of them that the deer population has really suffered. They are an awesome animal but there are simply too many. Maybe by the time I retire the powers that be will allow trapping/hunting them again. Goo luck and I can't hardly wait to see what you get.
Thanks. There are enough negative attitudes out there in the world, I choose to be happy through everything life throws at me.
Awesome! it’s great to be out in the woods and trapping is a great reason to be out there. Yeah I’ve heard the same thing from a lot of people in the lower 48 about wolves. We have an over abundance of predators as well. We can trap and hunt them but there are just not as many of us doing it anymore. The trapping community would definitely love to have you join us. Thanks for writing.
Hello Gary I’m Greg from TX! A warm (78° today) howdy 🤠 to ya. I’m a new sub and love trapping!
Hi Gregg! Wow 78 that’s a bit warm, lol. Thanks for watching and the sub, it’s much appreciated. God Bless🙏
Great job Gary ! I miss my old trapping days, Trapping in the dark friend thats the time of year, That rope to set the springs is pretty awesome, an old native fella showed me that 35 years ago, nice to see people still using simple safety tools like that :)
Thank you sir. Yeah the dark never bothers me out there and a strong headlamp lights up their eyes if there is something out there👍. I hope these videos bring back good memories. God bless and stay tuned for more🙏
Hi Gary, it's good to see you have your back healed up and are out on the line. I am happy for you. Unfortunately, this year has been a lot of medical challenges for me. Next week I am booked up with medical appointments. I guess that is what happens when you get into your seventies. Keep me in your prayers my friend. Best wishes. Dave Schmitz in North Pole
Yeah I’m still kinda limping through this season but I’ll make it. Ah man I’ll be praying for you for sure. Lord willing next week you’ll get some stuff lined up. Seventies is a ways my friend. Take care and god bless
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Thank you so much for sharing this part of your life Gary!
Oh yeah Matt it’s my pleasure. Thanks for watching and writing👍
Simple set from a simple man
Just the beginning, I’ve had 3 Trapline checks so far. Made 6 catches, we’ll see how you lure does. On Saturday I was checking traps at -65 Fahrenheit here in my free country. Can I use your first name when I show the lure? I wanted to show it a couple videos ago but I wanted to ask first?
@@enigmaticgwichin1630you get the cold weather alright was 40 y'day here getting woof eating bait. Set more steel rebaited. 1 is a huge dog
@@enigmaticgwichin1630has anyone ever accused you of being the sharpest arrow in the quiver
@@user-vo8fb1yh8q nice. Hope you catch a few!
I love my new Fenix 3k. works excellent in our constant -20°F
So good to see you back on the line, brother. Those are some good looking sets you put in. I'm eager to see all your catches! Take care
Thanks bro! We’ve made a few catches l, can’t wait to share those videos. God bless
I would like to see you on that TV show Alone.
Thanks but I like going home to the wife. Someday we might film more of a vlog kinda thing building a cabin and hunting camps. Thanks for watching
Go get em! Your gonna have a lot of fur I hope.
For sure Tom. Made about 6 catches so far can’t wait to share those videos with y’all as well. Have a good one
Awesome stuff here. I have no doubt you will have a good season. Thanks for sh
Thank you sir👍. You guys ever get any more snow where you are?
The Long Night.
Thanks for taking us along with you!
Oh yeah it’s my pleasure. Thanks for watching and commenting. Have a good one
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Bro!! Yall editing and video work is next level! And 4-strokes alllll the way!😅 Keep the videos coming! Yall stay safe and warm up there! God bless yall!
Thanks brother! Takes some time to edit videos like this but yeah it turned out awesome. Say hi to the family and god bless.
Great opening video for the trapping season! 😊
Thanks! I hope it doesn’t get me demonetized. lol no worries it’s worth it. Have a good one
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Thanks for watching, have a good one
It's great to see you back in the saddle. Looking forward to your future videos!
Thanks! It does feel great being back out there. We start editing the next video tonight👍
can't wait for more, thanks for sharing, happy to see another season
Oh yeah I love putting these videos out. God bless and stay tuned for the next video
Looking cold and snowy there! Looking forward to seeing what's in the traps :)
Oh yeah we’ve made a few catches so far, good start to the season👍. Thanks for watching
Fun video! Hope there's another chapter coming out.
👍Working on the next video now. Thanks hanks for watching. Have a great day
Awesome! I'll be looking forward to it.@@enigmaticgwichin1630
Awesome. I’ve been waiting for the start of this season. Always a blessing watching you trap. Can’t wait for the first check. Good luck and stay safe out there 👍👍
Much appreciated 🙏. We’ve made a few catches so far. I start editing the next video tonight👍. We make a great catch on our first check. Take care
Boy what we would do for some useable snow this year!!! We might have 4” or so of very wet snow here in the mountains of NY. Way to warm lately!!! Hope that all is well your way Gary. See you on the next one! Mike
Oh man sorry to hear that. It’s been a strange winter up here as well. Hope you have a safe 2024. God Bless you and yours Mike
Awesome video. Good weather for
Trapping. I’ll finish up the video later.👋🏽👍🏽
Thanks my friend! Yeah -30 is perfect up here not to cold and not to warm. lol. Have a good one 👍
Premium content. Thanks for the ride along...
I try my best to show our real life here. Thanks for watching and more to come👍
@@enigmaticgwichin1630Do appreciate your reply...
I purchased Fenix lights upon your recommendation. So far I am very pleased with them. Unbelievably bright. Thanks amd good luck. 😁
Nice! It’s worth the money. I’ll be sure to talk about it again at the end of the season to see if this years -60 does any damage to it. Take care and thanks for watching👋
Very cool cubby set with the RBG trap! You have a lot of snow! I can't wait to see more checks! Thank you for sharing and Good luck with everything my friend!
Thanks Mark! The first check had a great catch. Can’t wait to finish the edit in that one.👍
Nice video! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you too for watching and commenting. Have a good one👍
Awesome video. it reminds me of a story. My dad told me and got mad at me lol. he got mad at me and said you supposed to leave in the morning while it’s dark and get back before dark. you live in the afternoon the days have gone, he said. You can get hurt at night and get a stick poked in you or something he said just telling you what my dad told me lol . but we used to love night trapping when we had two skidoo and a buddy when we had cabin fever we used to go out and check a few traps. Love the video Gary keep up the good work.👋🏽✌🏽
Thanks Mike. Up until the last two years I used to leave in the dark of the morning and return in the dark. But only for December and January. By February my line is almost fully set and I don’t need to spend 10+ hours out there, I can usually do the loop in about 6 hours. He’s right but back in the day headlights on the snow machines and headlamps were fairly weak and expensive to use. Not an excuse to trap at night but the headlamps now are crazy bright and the chance of getting poked is much lower.
Once I was hauling firewood with a weak headlamp and the headlights were out on an old snowmachine I was using and a burned pole pointed toward me where I couldn’t see went through the hood and almost got me. Since then I’m much more cautious when out in the woods.
I also bring a couple extra headlamps now.
Thanks for watching and a great reminder from your dad to be extra careful out there. Have a good one and god bless
That’s very cool bud. I think they had no hospital back then that’s why they used to say that take care in the dark bud. thank you for another amazing video.
Have a great year!
Thank you sir! To you as well. Thanks for watching
I'm sure glad to see you using a piece of rope for your body grippers in case of trouble. Showing the rope and the trick of using it is important to your viewers. You just never know when it could save their lives. That snow sure pack hard doesn't it? Would make a good shelter in a pinch.
Yeah definitely a safety issue when dealing with these traps. It does take up a bit of pocket space but definitely worth it. Oh man my ride plowed into it quite a ways but my right ski couldn’t break through to the top and drug me right into the thickest part. Oh yeah winter gear and a blanket down under those thick chunks could definitely get you through the night. Thanks for watching and writing, it’s much appreciated. God Bless
Nice to see the trapline again!!
On my RBG traps, I always bend the trigger wires into a circular shape. It makes a difference
Good tip! Thanks. Glad you enjoyed my Trapline. I’ve filmed 3 move videos. I caught a lynx in that RGB trap on yesterday’s Trapline check. When I reset that trap I’ll change the trigger, thanks for watching
Finally CZcams recommended me a channel worth watching
just drop the background music please
@@Zyzex-CZcams thanks for watching. We’re trying to pull in people that wouldn’t really watch most other trapping videos and it’s been working well so far. The input is much appreciated
Great and Kool trapping lessons and the dark and snowy environment makes it more entertaining but can you do videos where the camera focus and the lighting indoors makes it easier for us to understand how to set up the traps ? So us novices can learn how to trap and not just be entertained
Thanks for watching. Somewhere in this trapping season I’ll bring a few traps inside and attempt to explain how to put a few sets together. Make sure to remind me here in a month or so. Have a good one
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 thank you , much appreciated , I love your videos thus far and would love to go from being a city slicker to a capable bush guy👍 any help from you would be much appreciated
@@robertjosan oh yeah any questions at all don’t hesitate to ask👍
Just found your channel and subbed
Welcome to the channel. Thanks for the sub. Hope you enjoy the content, we have quite a few videos from the last couple years. Take care
I haven’t been to Venetie in years. Good to see someone like you show the Village lifestyle.
Oh yeah man👍. We’re busy every day. We’ll be running dogs tomorrow. Thanks for watching
Finally!! Been waiting for this. Thanks. That snow machine is a work horse. What year and model is it?
Yeah it took a while to get this video out. Glad you enjoyed a bit of trail riding. This snow machine is a 2020 Skidoo Skandic Wide Track in 600 ACE. It really is an awesome machine. I’ve put it through the wringer and it keeps truckin. Thanks for watching and have a good one
Your snow is not so bad my snow is waist deep and wind blown. Got to break trail with snowshoes ahead of the machine.
Yeah we don’t usually get a lot of snow here. Sometimes we don’t get enough. Dang that’s a lot of snow
I can't even trap to big drifts on the river and deep snow in the bush. Tough to even cut wood.
@@muskrat411ah man that sucks. Hope you have a good spring👍
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 my wood pile is getting small. The Aklavik - Inuvik Ice Road is closed due to drifting. Tough year I hope we get a break from om wind soon. Have not checked my camps yet this winter.
Just got notice for video
Everyone is in the live chat
I bet its so cold 🥶 out there ☠️ wat animal tastes the best!
Oh man it was maybe -30 in this video. But on Saturday this last weekend I was checking traps at -65 Fahrenheit. That was a bit crazy. That’s the coldest I’ve seen in almost a decade. Thanks for watching bro. Have a good one
Do you ever get Fisher that far north? That is one animal that we trap here pretty regular along with fox, coyote, mink, musk rats, martin and bobcat. Lynx we can't trap and must release if we can.
I see a least one set of tracks that look like a huge marten it usually passes through in one area of my line but never stops for sets or bait. I kinda figure it’s a fisher. But I’ve never heard of anybody catching one here before. If I catch one I’ll be sure to film it.👍
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 we trap them with a skunk as bait. They typically hunt in/around brush piles left by loggers and such.
They are pretty cautious and hard to catch but the fur is amazing. About twice the size of a Martin.
How many traps/sets do you put out? Good luck this season Gary!
Hi my friend! Oh man some years I can have 40-50+ sets out but this year with my health problems I have somewhere around 2 dozen sets in as of now. And that’s the bare minimum for making any decent catches. We’ve had a good start so far with about 6 catches. I’ll be starting the next video edit tonight. Take care Bill👋
How close are the porkies to you ? On the PCMB collars look they look to be 30 to 40km up river. I think you told me that's some rough country that way
Yeah it shows it on our side of the river but we haven’t found tracks up there yet. Hopefully they work their way back toward us soon. I’m out of caribou dry meat.
I have not had caribou dry meat since spring. Never lucked out this summer. Good luck in connecting with the Porkies.
Question; why 110s when most others are running 120s? Are you using the Duke magnum 110s?
I do have 120s to replace after a catch when I run out of 110s. But marten will expire in a #1 single long spring so a 110 is far more powerful than the traditionally used #1. They are regular 110 dukes.
Thanks for watching. I do catch a marten in one of those 110 in a coming video and another in a 330. Which is about normal for up here. Have a good one👍
Why so late starting we’re you been all winter ?
Oh man these videos take a bit this was filmed a month ago👍. I’ll be dropping videos well into the spring. Thanks for watching
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You don’t work on the slope do you ?
No I stay busy here in the village. There are a few guys here that have worked up there in the past. 👍
Out of curiosity. How many days between checks are you guys able to do?
I try to leave it for a week but if there is a change in weather I’ll go out around day 5 at the earliest. Some places in alaska check times can be as short as 3 days. But up here I’ve never found anything in the regs that says we have to checks traps in Sid of a week. A lot of my catches are made between 5-7 days. Thanks for watching 👍
That’s nice to be able to let them sit. Way less scent and disturbance by you. Enjoy your show!!
@@anthonymason2186 yeah if I had to check my line every 3-4 days my catch rate would drop drastically. Glad you enjoyed the video
I was wondering if you sell your lynx I would like to get one skinned I can tan it
My email is on my homepage. I can start a list on there. Thanks