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Alaska
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AlaskaPosted By: HNTDUX , Fishing Buddy
Created On: 03/04/2010 8:42 PM
Tags: alaska
Region: North Dakota
90 Photos, 94 Views, 0 Comments
Photos in this Album
North Slope Caribou (tundra donkey)
One of the bulls I took on the North Slope in Alaska.
Day Three
From left, myself, steve, andy and matt, matt shot his at 72 yards with his bow. Trumping the year before, a meger 64 yarder
MT Goat Kodiak Island
My billy...Best and worse hunt i have ever been on! Want to shoot one in every place they inhabit!
Right Base 6"
Left Base 6 1/8
Right length 10 1/8
Left length 9 7/8
Both tips were broke
MT Goat 2
He almost made it to the drop behind me...would have been bye bye goat! Very tough critters!
MT Goat 3
Big boy...
Oldsquaw/Longtailed duck
Shot off the Coast of North East Afognak Island, Alaska
Barrows Goldeneye
Shot out of Malina Bay On Afognak Island, Alaska
Ptarmigan Hunt
Near Denali National Park...
Russian River Red
A Sockeye from the Russian River. Kenai Penninsula, AK
Stick and String Snowshoes
longbow bunny taken near Eureka, AK
Halibut
65lb Butt caught in the mouth of Tutka Bay.
My duck, halibut, salmon, caribou rig
The sea duck and her bounty!
Base Camp for Mountain Goat
Kodiak Island, in unit DG 475 on Spearzack Lake. (pilot named)
BIG BROWN BEAR
He actually bluffed charged us and we were in a 53 foot Salmon seiner...Big Boy with a big attitude!
Brown Bear 2
This one was swimming across an inlet, managed to catch up with him for some photos.
Fishing partner
Fished with this young lady for a couple years, she'd get within 10 feet of me looking for salmon in the river.
Fishing Partner 2
She decided not to chase the live ones one day and ate these dead buggers...pretty soggy looking.
Good eats!
Blue Lip and Butter clams, low tide was a buffet!
Sitka Blacktail Hunt
7 guys 4 days...insane!
Sitka Blacktail Hunt 2
We took 21 deer in 4 days. Awesome Trip!
The deer retrevier
The Delphin deer retrevier
Dall Sheep Country
Beautiful Place to be.
Primer in Sheep Country
the first day was a little rough on Primer
Good hunting partner!
Never leaves your side...damn good dog!
Looking for sheep
Lot of time spent behind glass!
Lambs and ewe's
They make your heart skip a beat...
Still glassin
Look, look and look
Sheep Base Camp
Rode the wheeler in 12 miles and hiked another 9 to the sheep territory...long days!
Magic Tea
This damn gull kept trying to get our Herring, so i was gonna end his life with my green tea bottle...my buddy snapped this photo and it looked like he popped right out of it!
Flying into Goat Country!
Awesome views I'll never forget.
Kodiak Island, AK
Kodiak Sunset
says it all
The Lady Kay
Our ride for the deer hunt, 11 hour ride from Homer to NE Afognak was nice on the way down. on the way back however we plowed through 14-22 foot seas! You don't sleep through that.
More fishing partners
didn't fish with these folks that often, I left them a wide berth. Fun to watch when mom flips a salmon out for them to finish. Nine times out of ten the salmon gets away!
AK Dux
Mornings worth of birds
Pile o' birds
good eatin
Halibut
Yum Yum Yum
Close up of a Sitka Blacktail
decent buck
Caribou
My two bulls
Clean up crew
Corey and I got tasked with pick-up and cleaning...no worries, cuttin is my favorite part.
Deep Snow
Had to do something other than hunt in the winter...this is it!
Awesome Sleding
Insane amounts of snow!
Landing on Spearzach Lake
Coming into Goat country
King Eider
Beautiful Bird.
Waiting
Waiting for the rest of the crew to be hauled back to the big boat.
Brown Bear Track
My fishing partners tracks in the sand. Just a lil girl, 2 year old.
Fishing Partner
Checking to make sure if I was cool to fish by.
King run
King Salmon (Chinook) on the run to spawn.
Russian River Reds
Headed for the smoker!
Relaxing after a Blackie hunt
Primer and I by the fire
Cow and Calves
Lots of twins born up north
Cow and Calves 2
all three
Common Snipe
neat photo
Artic Grayling
These fellers were suckers for the egg pattern!
GOLD!
Some of my good friends are long time miners, lived in the bush for 40 years...he would hand me a pan and wish me luck, we never got skunked! Never did find a big nugget though. He had some whoppers!
On alert
It's very wise to be aware of your surroundings when fishing with omnivores!
Primer eyeing up my goods!
Meat gazer!
Salmon seining in Valdez AK
Another seiner getting ready to deploy it's net
Salmon Seining in Valdez AK v2
This is the boat getting ready to deploy it's net.
Valdez
Full nets...
Deploying our net
out she goes
Sun set out of Valdez
flat calm
Keith pulling net
This is the skiff that deploys the net from the Seiner, it does a big loop and connects back with the Seiner.
The net as it's being deployed
Lots of net!
Net out
This is what is looks like when she's out
Hauling the net back in (Pursing)
Pursing the net
Corkline
top of net as its drawn in
Roughly 3k of pink salmon
the haul
Salmon haul
Dropping salmon from net to the holds
Pot o gold?
Faint rainbow...leading to the Salmon gold!
view of the net being pursed
another boat pursing up it's net
OVERLOAD
This is Keith and I in the skiff, we had so many fish in the net that we had to tie the net to the skiff to prevent the fish from swimming down and sinking the corkline. We could'nt do anything but
Being dumb while waiting for the tender
posing for the main boat...
Gotta do something
Grabbed a few out of the net while waiting.
Salmon galore!
Just a portion of the net with 300,000lbs of salmon boiling in it.
Another view
This net is 80 ft deep, packed solid with salmon
the jump
damn that water is cold too
in the net
Keith said all he could feel was fish...it was hard to swim
Buddy's Moose
My buddy Matt took this 59" Moose yesterday at just under 30 yards with his longbow. Stalked up to him while he was sleeping, waited for him to stand up and let'er fly! Awesome!
Side View
Great Bull
The Stalk
Closing the distance on the swamp donkey...
Buddies Longbow Blacktail
South Kodiak Island Blacktail taken in November with a longbow. He was missing his giblets hence the velvet antlers and abnormaly large bases. Awesome buck!
Halibut out of Anchor, AK
good eats
Goat close up
You can kind of get a grasp on his horn mass in this pic. Can't wait to get him back from the Taxidermist!
# 2 SCI Alaskan Moose
My buddy took the # 2 SCI Alaskan Moose this fall. This thing is an absolute Toad!
# 2 SCI Moose
awesome
# 2 SCI AK Moose
Hell of a load!
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