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  1. wjschmaltz

    OAHE Smelt Run

    We have a very large run of anadromous smelt/hooligan/candlefish statewide here. It's mostly Asian folk that line the rivers day after day filling cooler after cooler. There are a few other dudes that are scattered in just looking for a bucket full to use as bait. I've dipped em b/c it's a fun...
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    We are free, finally free.....

    Huge congrats to you 100% debt free guys. I am jealous. My wife drug her reluctant husband (at the time live-in boyfriend) to Dave Ramsey's financial peace university about 7 years ago. I thought it would mean the end of fun and adventure for us and after a few weeks I learned it was the ticket...
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    What the hell is this thing??

    Some pictures of Frank Glaser’s half breed dogs for reference: Looks a lot like the last one.
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    2022 Island Vacation

    I'm basically down to elk and antelope so I just need to decide when to burn my pile of Wyoming points. Maybe in a few years when the kids are a bit older and it's less stress on my wife to be gone. The big ones that require a guide as an AK nonresident (in case I move) are done so I'm sitting...
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    2022 Island Vacation

    We had the heart and some tenderloins and backstraps last week and it was all very good. I thought the marbled backstrap was especially good. So far, it has moved to the top of my list for wild game meat
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    2022 Island Vacation

    My wife has been bugging me to go on an island vacation, so I finally gave in this year. It’s been since February 2018 since I took a winter island getaway on Kodiak to hunt goats, so I figured I was due for 2022! To preface the whole reasoning behind doing this hunt: A few years ago, I was at...
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    Unit 3A3 is now "no hunting over bait"

    I have nothing substantive to add. Just couldn’t let a good meme go unposted
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    Flying with a fishing rod and camping equipment

    Carry on. The Anchorage airport is full of guys carry tubes around and/or on their pack. I once even brought a 2 pc 9ft 8wt and the flight attendants offered to put it in their closet.
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    Minnesota walleye poaching for vikings games

    Fair. The simple reason is that we all agree that the line needs to be drawn somewhere and the vast majority have decided that’s a pretty fair and common sense place to draw it. I’ve shown up at the river here at 10 pm and smacked a limited of Reds, had a beer on the bank watching my watch and...
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    Minnesota walleye poaching for vikings games

    I think some are missing the point. He clearly broke the law. And it sounds like him and LE have a long history that probably goes much further than what even his previous tickets show. But at the core of it, I simply do not agree with this law and I don't agree with LE being able to dig around...
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    Minnesota walleye poaching for vikings games

    So in Minnesota if you are on a weekend trip and catch a limit of walleyes on Friday night you can't go and catch another limit until those original are eaten/given away? Even if they're vac sealed and frozen? That's ridiculous. I typically stand firmly behind LEOs of all kinds and find...
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    Alaska fishing and site seeing???

    YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION IN MID JUNE!!! The Susitna drainage is pretty limited to Chinook that time of year and an emergency order was put in place only allowing catch and release. That can and likely will change hopefully by mid June on the Deshka. I've fished the Deshka a few times...
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    Crow vs Raven

    Very long story short as I can make it: My daughter passed away from SIDS in March 2021. Cancelled all my hunting plans for the rest of the year. One of my closest friends who is a moose hunting/fishing outfitter in western Alaska was staying at my house in early May while he was picking up...
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    Electrc vehicles~

    They plug in their diesel every night so they can drive to coffee at Cenex and then snoop around on what all the neighbors are doing. Why not just plug in an EV every night. I'm clearly joking, but as far as guys that don't have livestock, most have their dedicated 20 year old pickup for...
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    Crow vs Raven

    The book "Make Prayers to the Raven" is worth your time. They did a little documentary type thing around the premise of the book that was pretty decent. Make Prayers to the Raven: The Life in the Bear - YouTube There are a handful of videos to check out. Since moving north, I find myself...
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    No more messing with the clock in North Dakota

    Looking out my home office window right now at a little past 8 am and it's twilight. Neighborhood kids were waiting for the bus across the street in the dark at 7 this morning the same way they have been for the last 5 months. For two of those months, they come home in the dark too. Had a...
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    Location/Emergency Beacon Advice Needed

    One of my friends came across a guy this fall caribou hunting that shot himself in the stomach with his Glock 10mm. They were extremely remote on ATVs. His wife happened to be at our house (who works dispatch for the troopers) and with me texting my buddy for info and her on two phones, we were...
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    So, If gas hits 5 a gal this summer...

    What's your point? Do you have one or just need something to complain about? Why are they trapping them? Domestics getting mixed in that need killing? Trap and transport to create more opportunity elsewhere? Trapping nuisance birds off private property to move instead of just killing...
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    More U.S. system failures

    My brother only made it teaching in the public school system for 1.5 years until he couldn't do it anymore. He taught inner city high school kids in Milwaukee. He came from a very disciplined home and a no BS small town ND school. He basically was told he couldn't discipline kids. Everyone...
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    What are you SHTF plans?

    I don't think anyone actually thinks we're gonna get nuked or is actually planning for it (maybe a few are?). A hypothetical question was asked and people are giving hypothetical answers. It's all just in fun. Albeit dark fun. We live only a couple miles from Sarah Palin and as everyone...

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