A couple of surprises this weekend...

Weather, weather, weather.  It's awful.  Actually, it's great for being outside, but horrible for winter travel.  Flights out of RSM have been turned around because of icing up, the river and sloughs keep showing overflow because the temps keep rising into the 40's for crying out loud, right before they drop back down and freeze everything and then bring snow again...and the forecast as of tonight says that it will get up closer to 50 this weekend!!!  You'd almost think this wasn't SW Alaska in January...

But regardless, we keep getting out there, as always.  Starting a family sure changes the frequency of the outings you get, but the quality goes up without a doubt.  :)  The greatest part of this year out here has been the addition of Warren, now that he is of a capacity to be actually engaged by what we are doing.  It started this fall with pike and sheefish fishing, and it continued into the burbot lines and now trapping.  I just cannot wait until the boys are both of age to come along, and we can get down to business like dad and I used to.

This weekend started out with a visit to the weasel traps again, and (see last post) we scored.   But we went out again and checked again after re-luring.  This time, no weasels, but Warren was simply overjoyed at the catch he spotted when I lifted the lid of the weasel box:

A double on Shrews!!!  Ha!  He acted as though it was a double on wolverine!  Priceless, indeed.  I love this photo :)

And then, I received a call from someone about a lynx that had been in a trap for at least two nights that they knew of.  The weather, as I had mentioned, has been awful, and that particular day it had been blowing 40+ and whiteout conditions.  Two nights and three days is long enough.   Forde and I decided to head out and put the cat down to avoid more delay with the ugly weather.  Made up a short video (long, 'full length' version not uploaded to youtube, but it will be on this year's trapping DVD) :)  and so here it is:  A brief glimpse of our ride, set to some tunes, and then the kitty dispatch at the end, filmed with the new GoPro camera!  A great second run for it as it performed well...

Thanks for watching!