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Pre-Baiting For Fishing Season

Written By: Matt Goodlife - May• 16•12

Well deer season ended some 6 days ago, once the doe’s ended in March I didn’t really have the heart to go out any more. It had been a difficult season and towards the end my thoughts had turned to other things. Fishing was now top of the list.

I haven’t really had the fishing bug for the last few years so I’ll look to target my local river and its once plentiful carp, bream and chub. Our river season starts on the 16^th June which gives me 6 weeks to plan for opening morning. (more…)

You Wrestle One Turkey and you are the Bad Guy

Written By: Randy Duncan - Mar• 31•12

So here it is the Spring of 2012 and for me this means trying my hand again at Turkey hunting, and that reminds me of the 2011 season. (more…)

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Trapping: Dedication and Commitment

Written By: Michael B. Adams - Mar• 07•12

Sometimes you have this wonderful preconceived notion in your head of what a new adventure is going to be like. The mind will lead you to believe that everything will be just as you have planned it and in the end all is right in the outdoor world! Then you hear the record needle being dragged across your favorite piece of vinyl ruining your outdoor melody with a loud screeeech! That my friend was how my first trapping season played out, everything was going to be perfect but in the end, scrrreeech! (more…)

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The Making of an Alaskan Umiaq

Written By: Chip Hailstone - Mar• 01•12

These are all the parts I need to build another Umiaq. For three weeks now, mostly inside because -61 is too frikkin’ cold to work out in, I came up with all the dried Spruce trees and poles I’d saved from summer and reduced them with hand tools, some electric, some not, into 22 floor boards, 44 ribs, 6 seats, a bow and stern (made of glued and screwd plywood lamination) a keel, 2 chines, 4 stringers a set of gunwhales and an inwhale (more…)

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Freeze Up In Alaska

Written By: Chip Hailstone - Feb• 22•12

Howdy! Seems I have the chance to do some catch up today, so here it is, some update, and along a time line from freeze up to early January. I’ve spent the last three weeks building another Umiaq, as I want “The Best” and doing so with split and shaved tree poles is 10X’s stronger than sawn lumbers, and that’s the turn I’ve taken. In this “Subsistence Lifestyle” I am again using the materials around me to make what I need and its a perfect fit for this environment and my whole family.

Anyway, the sun is coming back on and it’s time to hunt again, as were down to 200 or so fish 1/2 a Muskox and 3 Caribou carcasses, and those wont last long for sure. Trapping hasn’t been a priority, but then again, I am a much better Hunter anyway (more…)