Catching a Years Supply of Dog Team Fish and Rafting Them to the Village for Winter - Stan Zuray
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Every year at the end of a summer and fall of fishing for food for the family, the poorer quality late fall chum salmon that move up the Yukon River are fished for dog food by the people along the river that still use dog teams. The run at that time is often plentiful enough that one's fishing takes place in a couple of days to a week. Nets and fishwheels are used. That short period of fishing supplies almost an entire 3 seasons of food for ones team of dogs. Video is mostly narrated and lots of talk about the fish and lifestyle.
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Don’t let people that talk bad about your lifestyle bother you. They complain about “murdering” animals for food then think they’re food miraculously grows in little packages in the grocery stores. Or grip about harvesting trees and live in homes built with wood or not give a second thought to using paper just to throw away after they are done with it. They don’t understand that smart use of a resource by ethical outdoorsmen do more to help the resources then they could ever hope to do. I’m from Texas, and I know the North American model where the purchase or outdoor supplies and licensing goes to help and protect these resources, when all they want to do is take a walk on some weekends and look at all the things the outdoor people cherish and actually help, then complain because we actually utilize the resource. Stan I love watching your way of life. And enjoy how you explain things. Keep on keeping on, best wishes and thank you for your continued efforts to protect our resources. God bless you.
23:04 a little bugger escaped! . Really interesting video stan. Thanks alot for sharing
Some get away. If you look at a sonar you see about 30 go by right under the wheel for every one you catch. One day in 2005 there were 100,000 that went past the wheel and nets in that 24 hours.
Your living a lot better lifestyle than anyone in the lower 48 please keep it up
Stan, the same people you speak of think their groceries just magically appear on the shelves, not knowing how it got there. I call them cidiots!Love the fall colors!
I love your videos. I’d rather watch stuff like this any day. Normal tv is trash.
Also Stan the people who would complain about the fish your catching are hypocrites, and don’t realize how nature works.
Thanks, Stan
I totally agree with you, Stan. Your vlogs are so interesting.
It's always a pleasure to watch your videos Stan. Thanks!
THANK YOU STAN FOR SHOWING US/TELLING ALL THE THINGS YOU HAVE DONE IN YOUR LIFE AND OTHER FRIENDS & FAMILY... EVERYTHING YOU VIDEO/ PICTURE WILL BE HERE FOR THE FUTURE!...
Stan you are the best sir! Very much enjoy watching your content
Crap to the non-sayers. I think that you and your family are AWESOME smart, talented and sincere. You don't find that kind of sentiment much anymore.
I am 70 and I grew up extremely poor. My dad left my mom with 4 kids and not much support from him. She worked as a Nurse's Aid making .75 cents an hour. Us kids got shoes and coats from a big box in the Principals office.
So I know poor. My kids get on to me why I keep so much food on hand when it is only me. Well I live south of Roswell, NM in the desert mostly. 4 years ago the TV weather, radio, etc. Announced we were going to be right in the way of a blizzard. Ya'll have bad weather conditions but we rarely even have snow.
So I went to town and got a big load of water, dog food, and everything I could think of. My girls were kinda laughing at me and people in town were la la la - then the snow started, then the wind - then a lot of wind and a lot of snow. I did great. The people in town had to call for help and have foid delivered. No one came to make us a path out here for 5 days and no one gave us numbers to call. Luckily the electricity for heat was not affected.
I could not get my car out of the driveway due to a 6 foot drift where you couldn't tell there was a vehicle. After the huge blizzard it rained a little that froze and a the snow drifts turned into big frozen icebergs.
Several people had to be transported to hospital fir exhaustion from trying to dig out and one person had a heart attack and died.
So I understand being prepared. If there was an emergency on you or Joey or any family or good friends needed help and their snow mobiles or four wheelers couldn't start or for whatever reason, you would have your lifeline of your dogs who though they are dogs - they are also extended family and need to be taken care of.
Those naysayers have probably had a bad day in their life and do not know that prevention is what you and other men and women do.
I used to faithfully watch the show on TV but I decided I'd had enough of paying for commercials and only have WiFi now. Good luck to you and yours, Betty.
AWESOME JUST AWESOME
we live in a very modern world but at any time it could change and we need to have a cushion for our family as much as we can, as you say.
betty kuykendall I know why we stock up cos early days when we had nowt n we sure as he'll won't go back there
its great to see how other people live in an area where I will never see, lifestyle is so different thanks for the education . Love the show!
Thanks for another great video, Stan. Not too many of us could sit there like you do and talk while unloading fish like a machine and not run out of breath. Great lifestyle. Keep up the good fight to keep it.
Great video Stan, I'm a chum fan , nice to see your getting your share take care and stay well.
I love these videos. When I was a young man I never knew there was a great big world out there. I would have loved trying this life style. I hope you know how much these videos are appreciated. Keep them coming Friend. I miss the show.
Stan, you're a remarkable man with a remarkable family living a remarkable lifestyle. You've come a long way since Dorchester in the 70's, there are not many people that can do what you do. Best regards.
Thanks Stan for a tid-pit of your way of life, love that fish wheel. I come from a small fishing village on the northeastern part of Nova Scotia Canada . My entire family were fisherman going back hundreds of years, when I was just a kid the harbour was full of fishing boats now there's two. So I know how you feel about losing a way of life, with the old timers gone and put to rest and with government regulations the way they are there very, very few young people getting into the fishery. All the best Stan !
I wish you guys were on tv instead of another family ,I won't mention names
HI STAN THANK YOU FOR THE TIME AN EFFORT YOU PUT INTO THESE VIDEOS TO SHARE WITH US VIEWERS WHAT YOUR REAL LIFE IS LIKE. I ENJOY ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS. IT ALSO REMINDS ME HOW EASY I GOT IT HERE IN LOS ANGELES. YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME. I LOVE YOUR LIFE STYLE ,I PLAN TO GET A TRAILER SOON AND START TRAVELING THE USA. I LOOK FORWARD TO SOME FISHING IN THE WILDERNESS. A BIG THANK YOU.AN A FAN.
I wish I had a chance to live like that
A New Video. You are the best Stan.
Stan I enjoy watching and learning about the different life styles and cultures of those that reside in different areas. The problem with commercial fishing is they have become so good at what they do with changes to technology and bigger boats that you're 100% right, they can deplete runs. But it seems things other than the obvious get blamed when fish runs become depleted. I really enjoy watching and learning about different life styles and cultures of folks. Keep up the great videos.
Thanks for sharing that window into your world. An admirable and ethical lifestyle!
Great to see you thriving Stan... miss seeing you and the family and all the people in Tanana AK weekly on the television. Hope you guys come back on soon? Love your way of life, just beautiful and inspirational.
Good to see you Stan ! Enjoy the video . Thank you ! Hi to Joe and rest of family !
Thanks for sharing Stan! It beats the hell out of watching people shop at a grocery store. LoL
i love seeing your way of life,
Stan, Thanks so much for producing excellent videos like this. I really appreciate and enjoy viewing them. Be safe, God Bless, and all the best.
Thanks for the video Stan.
Hey Stan you do LITERALLY have a boatload of fish 🎣 😂
I hope UA-cam is paying you what you’re worth making it so you’ll make more videos for a long long while.😮
Appreciate you taking the time to show us how the fish wheel works - very interesting- sustenance harvest has never hurt a population
It’s the ocean fishing killing the fish population. That and tourist fishing and obstruction of streams. Oh and there’s poultion and using baby salmon as bait Mostly tho it’s every country out there overfishing.
Always enjoy your videos. Thanks Stan
Appreciate your narrative Stan, it helps educate the ignorant & the young people.
Not many people have the sand to create a lifestyle like yours. Kudos to you & yours🙏🏻
All Right. Glad everyone and the Dogs will have Fish for the winter.
Good Luck on the upcoming Hunt. Hope to see you get enough Moose & Caribou with some video of the Hunts if you can. Thanks Stan Spirit be with you all. Yes I do miss the Life in the Woods, although living here along the Rio Grand Valley of Texas is nice and warm. My Bones do not like the cold anymore. Good Luck to Y'all.
You are awesome man just keep doing what your doing, to bad that there are people that don’t understand your way of life and feel they should try to change it.
I not going talk age here Stan but let's say you are over 60 ! You are nimble on your feet around this fish ! That would be a slippery surface to be moving on!!! How many dogs do you have to feed for the season? The colours are beautiful at this time that's for sure!!
68 and feel every year of it. Run and fed 12 dogs last few years but be down to a 10 dog team this winter.
Another great video sir! Both my boys and myself were glued to every second, fish, and word! We were saying get a close up on their teeth! Both boys were amazed with the big male that was late in it's spawn cycle and all the coloration and bars it had. They were both saying how effortless you made the tossing of each fish look when moving to each stage of the handling process you had set up. I plan on taking a weekend trip up to Michigan to a place where we can catch some land locked salmon. I hope they can experience a similar sized fish that you are so accustomed to handling with ease! You should see their eyes light up when each fish you picked up seemed to just get bigger and bigger. Thank you again.
1/2 a mil back in 2005 now it’s 4K in less than a day. Love it Stan keep up the good work.
Think 600,000 is about the average fall chum run on the Yukon. Below 300,000 I believe there is no fishing allowed.
Educational and inspiring Stan. Keep the videos coming... Love them!!!
It's a credit to you Stan and the people of the Yukon with the lifestyle you live, bugger the haters. This is real living.
All the best from Australia 🇦🇺😀
Great video, Stan...as always very informative.
Awesome video showing your life style. Thanks Stan.
I enjoyed watching you on history channel but seeing your videos now I enjoy watching them more.Thankyou for making these videos for us to enjoy.Barry from Wisconsin
Thanks for the clip Stan. Thanks for living the life you do. Thanks for doing what you do. Keep it real !.
Interesting stuff. I feed my sled dogs a mix of chicken/beef that is not deemed fit for human consumption. It costs $13 for a 50 pound block. What surprises me is the lack of flies. it is good to keep the knowledge of the older ways alive. People worked hard to develop such a subsistance lifestyle. Thanks for the video
Near the cities there is a lot of good deals on poor meats and fat. But the shipping of it here is a killer. We got the fish however.
So glad you have a UA-cam channel and I plan on bing watching all of your videos sending my love from NJ USA May God bless you and your family 🙏💞
Hello Stan,I live just north of Boston in Wilmington.I envy your way of life but am too old now to go and do it so I get much enjoyment from your videos!
well done stan very interesting videos you make.
I really I joy watching your videos . Reminds me of when and where I grew up back east in NEWFOUNDLAND Canada . We live the same way u do hunt and fish and have our own livestock plus grow our own vegetables to . Would never servive if we didn't to that . Wish they would please return Yukon men to TV again . I lived watching that snow . Looked forward to watching it every week . One more thing if possible can u put out a video at lease once a week . That would be great to watch .
I would love to but I bet it doesn't happen. This time of year I get my videos from summer edited but soon be slowing down as life gets real busy and trapping begins.
The pre-winter rush is on. Alaska is all about urgency. Happy Hunting/Fishin'
Good work Stan!
Good to see Stan going strong. I wish I lived close, I wouldn't mind moving to your village to work for food and accommodation. I really admire that kind of lifestyle. Yukon Men is one of my favourite TV shows! Much love to you and your family Stan, stay safe! If you get lost here in New Zealand then let me know haha.
Very interesting & educational / informative. Also love seeing the Aspens in Fall color. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
its amazing to see how provision for humanity comes out of water... thx for sharing Stan.
A fine life style, thank you for sharing.
There is no doubt in my mind that with all that fresh air and physical activity that you sleep very well at night!
Love that fish wheel. I think about the hours I've spent on river bank without a nibble! LOL
The wheel has spent many a day and caught nothing also but when it's good it's way more than we need and sometimes only run it for less than 15 minutes.
I had no idea you had a UA-cam channel Stan! Subbed immediately, can't wait to absorb all the amazing useful knowledge you share.
Great video Mr Stan, I could watch that fish wheel for hours
Hello Stan, never knew you had a UA-cam channel. Always thought you were the hardest worker on Discovery.
Good to see you, didn’t know you had a channel. Miss the show a lot 🦋💜
Watching this 4 years later.... in a year where the fishing is prohibited... sad.
Never Knew You had a youtube channel was a great fan of yukon men wish it was still on, but glad to see you are doing well, love you're life style, a awesome video thanks, all the best to you and you're family hope you have a great year trapping and hunting,
What an enormous amount of work.
That is a lot of hard work! But I can see it being so satisfying!
Stan if people in the lower 48 would come live the way you do, they would understand. But people are cruel and don't understand. They are youst to working 9 to 5 and eating out in restaurants. I wish I could live like you do
This is sec best to Yukonmen.....I love your channel Stan,Lots of Aroha from New Zealand
beautiful fall views there, i'm jealous! Not sure I could handle that part of Alaska's winters though lol. Love the video, keep up the good work!
I’m impressed that you never (on the show at least ) called your kids names or swore at them telling them they’re a problem as the other fathers did. God bless you for not breaking down your children. They are wonderful young people. Bob tends to be very lazy and complains a lot. Not Joey tho 😀
Stan I really love the show you is a hard working person respect to you and your family 🙏
Absolutely awesome 🫡
Great video Stan . We have a native eel in New Zealand that has an interesting life cycle. The eels, called long fin eels, arrive in New Zealand as larvae from the pacific islands near Tonga , which is 1500 miles away . The baby eels hatch and swim up the streams of New Zealand and live most of their lives there. They can reach up to 2.0 metres long and weigh up to 80 pounds. They can live for up to 80 years. Just before they die they swim back down the streams and out to sea and return to the waters around Tonga where they breed and die , the fertilised larvae floating back down with the currents to New Zealand to complete the life cycle.!( This species of eel is only found in New Zealand not in the pacific islands!)
That is incredible
I agree with you with you 100%.
You do so most good and share your food. You are one good man.
The "do gooders" in life ( you are not a do gooder that I am referring to) are ruining life. I wander if they eat beef and fish. Don't they realize that these have to be killed!!!!
Do they wear latgerl shoes etc.??
Keep up the good work that you do. Your videos are awesome.
You could teach people in Hollywood a thing or two.
You have a great stage presence and explain things in a very interesting way.
Thank you.
thank you
I’m glad to see the salmon are so abundant. I remember a couple years ago watching the show, it was tough especially after the state cut down the time the fish wheel was in. Glad to see everything is going your way. All the best Stan ! Oh, and by the way, the haters are the ones that go to these fancy restaurants and order seafood!
The king salmon run however was run into the ground and that is where the confusion lies. There was big commercial fishing - like more than half the run numbers taken commercially using nets that took mostly the largest king. We are still dealing with that problem. But these are fall chum and never had that much commercial interest. Commercial markets are being developed on them however and this year about half the run was taken just to be sold. That is the way of the world. When the run crashes the powers that be will be sure to blame the subsistence people who live along the river and make regulations against our fishing and never mention commercial markets.
Stan Zuray I feel bad for little towns like yours who depend on the land. It’s not right what is happening to tanana, and the surrounding towns. Especially now that the road is in. All the best Stan it’s an incredible life you live, one that I just dream of having!
They started selling chum in our grocery stores in the US SE. They call them "Keta" salmon - I guess "chum" isn't palatable enough.
Kudos to you for filming this. Hard work
Thanks Stan . As a southern gulf coast fisherman, I really appreciate the bios on fish, dogs and ecosystems. Also the the systems used are creative to say the least. Informative and interesting, not to mention decent camera work ... I'm subscribed !
Fair play to you Stan, people that don't understand your way of life and sense of independence Will always try and shut you down.keep up the good work and more power to you buddy.
GREAT STUFF STAN.
HONEST TRUE REAL DEAL.
GREAT LIFE.
You live a good life my friend ………………..
Glad to see you have a u tube channel. We haven't had cable for awhile so we didn't know by Yukon Men wasn't produced anymore. You and your son were my favorites on the show.
They took our gillnets 25 yrs ago here in Florida.Uninformed and misled northern retirees got the vote passed.Hope it never happens in your neck of the woods.Wish you and the family all the best.Thanks
Alaska is a little more harsh than Florida. It tends to weed out those that complain for complainings sake rather quickly, I also don't see a mass influx moving up here any time soon. Generally, if people come up here, it's because they appreciate our resources and want to use them. With use, comes the necessity to preserve the resource, and AKDFG spends a good amount of time on educating the public. The weather and things one must do to live even somewhat like this, tends to put things into perspective
loved the show and now glad i found your channel
I'd like to be there pitching in Joe. Back in the seventies it was very interesting learning the lifestyle. May all of you prosper and keep healthy.
You have a job that’s fullfuilling and hard keep lovin it
Love the Vid's Stan, keep them coming!
Great stuff as always, Stan. When your show went off the air, I cancelled my cable. Great that I can still see what's happening with your channel here. Stay well, have a great winter.
Glad you enjoy.
Thank you very much for sharing that was as always very interesting to watch. Sadly your always going to get the haters. Don't let that stop you posting your videos. Cheers buddy. 👍🏼
Hi from Samos Greece,i have seen many episodes,from the Yukon and it's stresfoul and hard work, but so fulfilling keep it up.
Another great video Stan being a New Englander you got great work ethics....
I know the work is satisfying and your are proud to be able to do it , but my back aches just thinking about doing it
Beautiful up there!!! All the best Stan. Thx for posting. God Bless you and your family!!!
Seriously an incredible look into a different life style. I’d love to experience this for a little bit.
some city folk get it . love from Toronto
Hi ya Stan! Liked ur video, I’ve always found this lifestyle fascinating. I’ve always wanted to experience it, meaning work right along side those that r doing it. I appreciate u for sharing this. Thank u
Just watched a few of your videos from winter and summer. Absolutely amazing! Such a different lifestyle and skill set from us city people.
Great job,STAN. Very informative. Can't wait for more.
Hola que hermoso rio y bellos paisajes del yukon..y que bellos salmones......
Definitely a lifestyle to be proud of.
Greats video love your life style thanks for sharing and be safe
Love your videos keep making them love your way of life
MR. ESTÁN SOY UN GRAN ADMIRADOR DE SU PROGRAMA QUE DIOS ME LA BENDIGA SIEMPRE Y TODA SU FAMILIA LARGA VIDA PARA UD
Thank you for sharing this window into your life. I wish I could do the same but am stuck in a big city.