Sometimes people post pictures or videos of their ferraris or bentleys and write "goodlife" but in my opinion you have the goodlife. Stay happy and never forget that you live in a great place with much nature and i wish you and your familiy best wishes. Your videos are great. The Day starts great if i see a new uploaded video! So please don quit filming. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Best regards from Germany Patryk
Thank you so much for showing us how to cut meat for smoking and drying. I grew up living a subsistence life. My Dad and brothers (all male family memers) hunted. I helped pack meat off mountains, if it was getting late and they needed help packing it out. We all fished. My Dad and Mom cut and fileted the salmon and my brothers cleaned them. Both my folks cut the game, although my brothers were raised to start the process early. My eldest brother went hunting with my dad at a very young age. One of my brothers ate fish eyes that were boiled, so that he could see the fish better when they were gaff fishing. Us girls had our own duties.We did fish, but when it came to gaff fishing our job was getting in the water and walking through the water, hopefully herding the fish towards the place they were supposed to appear. I had seven sublings. My Dad lived until the age if 94 and passed away this year. He was active his entire life and the only thing that slowed him down was when he started Dyalisis in his 90's. We never went hungry, even if we didn't always like what we ate. My Father was Nez Perce, Cayuse and Umatilla, with a tad bit of Scotch thrown in. I enjoy Yukon Men because it's real and I can relate to subsistence living. I love smoked fish. But my parents stopped eating fish that came out of the Columbia River because of the water quality, with all of it's pollutants. When I was growing up we fished in smaller, faster and colder rivers. My Dad grew up gaff fishing at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River until the government put dams in and it flooded the falls. Damn government. Hah! Have a good one Stan and thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Great video Stan , watched you on Yukon men . Leaving the east coast , best gig you ever did . Your where you need to be and like . My pop was from.south jersey which is all like grown together subdivisions , and no hunting hardly allowed there no more . Deer everywhere , 30 miles from philly .im damn glad my dad married a southern gal and told him, he'll no she's not livin up there . So I've grown up swampin , hunting and fishing in Louisiana . Thank god ! I've been to anchorage once , but I sure wish back in my 20s I had come further inland there . I probably would have never left .
Just found your channel by accident! Very informative. I am in my 40’s and looking to live a lifestyle like yours. I’ll be limited a bit by the regulations here in Canada. I so wish I could move to Alaska. Much easier to live your lifestyle. Thanks again for the videos and please keep them coming. So much knowledge is being lost in today’s society!
I Love watching this video ! That fish hanging Always gets my mouth watering. Growing up, my mom`s brother would bring over 10 salmon they got from a stream (nothing like yours of course). Dad would cut them up, mom would always say we`re going to get botulism off them, and can them up. We never did get botulism, but always referred to them as botulism patties. To this day, salmon is still a treat to me.
Thanks, to you Stan! From Texas right before Deer season. Your time to share the in and outs of fish fillet prep for smoking is appreciated. Seen you on TV before, you and your son. Good to see you working and sharing. Salute!!
WoW! Almost a 20 min video. Thank you so much Stan. I appreciate you sharing with us, Hope to see some more awesome uploads of your day to day life in the Beautiful Alaskan Country. :)
Just got back from one of the few coastal rivers that had an open king season. My friends as well as the other villagers were busy cutting and drying fish for the year. My daughter who teaches in the village cheats and uses an electric smoker. But this is far better. What I grew up with in the PNW. Thanks.
Stan thank you for the info really appreciate it. Just purchased some wind dried salmon from someone not going to mention any names but they sent us 4 oz for $30. I was shocked. Lol We live in Fla so just purchased a pound of wild Sockeye Salmon for $12 a pound followed your directions and came out great. Again thank you very much for the great videos.
Love your video Stan. Please show some of your hunting , skinning and dressing of your moose hunt, beaver, wildlife game . Basic hunting skills we can enjoy also. I love the life you all live up there in Tanina, Alaska. I love the Yukon Men on discovery channel. Thank you for sharing your awesome and humbling video.
Holy cow that king meat looks so delicious! I can taste it! Lucky. That right there is one of the main reasons I.m moving to SE. Your knife skills are beyond skilled my friend...could watch you cut fish all day! Thanks for sharing!
After all these years, still have that accent. Coming from MA myself, I can appreciate it although we don't have one from my end of the state. Thoroughly enjoying watching the video. Can't wait to visit your state in September flying out of Boston.
MR Stan,i just love watching the Alaska Yukon men shoe try not to miss out on it...... Living out there i know that the life is hard work ,,but i love it and if i get the chance to live in Alaska were you guys are i will love too ...Watch you with your son on the show i wish that dad was in my life ,,,but i will be there for my kids god bless OR I LIVE IN TRINIDAD
@@fionaokeefe1906 I do everything in Montana I can, I don't live in the middle of Alaska. Why don't you shut your mouth, you accomplish nothing being an annoying ass. Go find Shrek and crawl back into your swamp
Stan Zuray : I subscribed. Watching you process fish is like watching a master chef in the kitchen, and listening to you describe what you are doing makes me miss Yukon Men. I'm looking forward to watching your other uploads. Thank you for this and I wish you good luck with hunting this winter.
Stan Zurai, ti seguo da sempre , mi piace la tua operosità e la tua conoscenza, sei un grande e la tua famiglia è semplicemente fantastica. sono un pò invidioso, sopratutto per la vita nella natura più selvaggia che la vostra comunità vive. un abbraccio a te a tuo figlio alla famiglia intera.
It's been decades since I have had good smoked salmon. I lived in the Pacific NW and it was an almost daily thing. There they used alder wood for the smoke but different people had their own specific methods.
Thank you. You make it really interesting in a very personal way. Brings back nice memories for me. Used to have a place on pamilco river in North Carolina and filleted flounder a certain way for my mother so she could stuff them with crabmeat. Loved doing that.
Loved your book "Carry On" Stan... but it was far to short... I read it in 4 hours and wanted sooo much more!! Maybe another one? Also, I really like your videos too... you remind me of my grandfather who had a farm near Pittsburgh PA!
We just finished making it into an audio book and be available right on Amazon with the paperback and ebook. Credit goes to my friend and author Tim Attewell who actually does all this work.
thank you mr zuray! i just moved to alaska last last winter i am catching fish and putting them in the freezer but it dosent feel right i am trying to learn and if it wasnt for you i wouldent have gotten so much reel life information thank you.
So glad that I looked you up. We have been watching the new Yukon Man and we’re concerned about Joey not appearing so googled and came across that you had a you tube channel. So new subscriber here.
The only trouble with me when I cut fish is what kind of knife to use. Most of rhe time my knife gets dull right away, but I try. Will definitly try this method. I live in the cariboo. I learned the hard way self taught because we lost our culture. Just happen to find your show and love it. Your dog was also very entertaining in the background.
That smokehouse is packed! What a crazy blessing for the community. Thanks for sharing, though sorry your haul wasn't reds instead of kings. Also, wish you had done it truly traditional style with an ulu, but I guess the knife works too. Quyana!
Knife styles as well as Ulu styles have a traditional history among Athabascan natives going back thousands of years. (See Anchorage Alaska museum etc.) Steel knives and ulus in Alaska are all post contact.
Fair point. Thanks for keeping me honest on that one. Also, I should have recognized that your section of the Yukon is in Athabaskan country, especially given the use of the fish wheel.
I had to double check that one myself. As one moves to the mouth of the Yukon and into Coastal Yupik country the river actually experiences tidal influences and fish wheels don't work well in that up and down and upriver then downriver current I been told.
Love the smoke house. I wonder what real/good smoked salmon taste like. Never had it. Would have liked to see the smoker fired up and smokey. I have a small electric smoker and love doing pork and beef. I only use hickory. I thought about trying to do salmon for my wife. Great tip about the brine. Great video ! Thanks for sharing it ! It's very inspiring.
Stan just found your channel...man awesome info....when you showed the smokehouse with all the strips you sure made me hungry...lol...I love Salmon, but in Virginia so ...well you can imagine....keep it up Bro....enjoyed!
Hey Stan!! Just stumbled upon your UA-cam channel! Pretty cool and educational. Anyway I can’t believe how much you’ve retained your Massachusetts accent!! I’m in Salisbury Massachusetts and the traffic even up on the North shore is a nightmare and getting worse. Sometimes i wish I lived in Alaska!! Keep pumping out the videos, so far this is the second video I’ve watched and will probably watch them all eventually. Stay warm and safe up there!
Thanks for responding We fished mostly out of Nenana. But i did fish one season in your area at Severt Jacobson's camp shortly after Jacobson passed away. Must of been almost 30 years ago. Do you know of the old Jacobson 's camp above the rapids? Must be someone else camp by now. Im sure some of the old timers around Tanana remember him. Best fish in the interior in your area.Yukon King strips are the best.
Jake's camp is still standing but nobody there. His 18' baskets were in front of his camp for years and I copied his measurements on my earlier wheels sometimes. I used to come and help Russ Wood at his camp each summer for a few hundred fish each year - walk in 40 miles to Tanana from where we lived north of Tanana. Russ's camp was in sight of and below Rock Island on north side and he was a good friend of Jake. Only met Jake once with Russ.
great video stan, making me hungry..try that with trout or char but just let it dry outdoors for a week to ten days. it's what we call pitsik..dried fish. enjoys your videos, keep up the good work
Enjoyed watching how you all do this on the Yukon. We harvest Copper River salmon and have noticed the smaller sizes here as well. I've been told the food source in the ocean are depleted and also the salmon are returning to the rivers in shorter periods now. They are returning after 3 years instead of 4 or 5 years. Don't know if its true but they are most certainly a lot smaller now.
We did a lot of work monitoring the King salmon migration in the middle/upper Yukon. Here's a short story about it from a well known investigative author. Much of what you hear about the causes of the problems with King salmon in our rivers are heavily influenced by people not wanting to admit management failure I believe.www.rapidsresearch.com/The_Fall_of_the_Yukon_King.pdf
Sometimes people post pictures or videos of their ferraris or bentleys and write "goodlife" but in my opinion you have the goodlife. Stay happy and never forget that you live in a great place with much nature and i wish you and your familiy best wishes.
Your videos are great. The Day starts great if i see a new uploaded video! So please don quit filming.
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.
Best regards from Germany
Patryk
I`m only a Dream the Ferrari guys eat at McDonald's
Thank you so much for showing us how to cut meat for smoking and drying. I grew up living a subsistence life. My Dad and brothers (all male family memers) hunted. I helped pack meat off mountains, if it was getting late and they needed help packing it out. We all fished. My Dad and Mom cut and fileted the salmon and my brothers cleaned them. Both my folks cut the game, although my brothers were raised to start the process early. My eldest brother went hunting with my dad at a very young age. One of my brothers ate fish eyes that were boiled, so that he could see the fish better when they were gaff fishing. Us girls had our own duties.We did fish, but when it came to gaff fishing our job was getting in the water and walking through the water, hopefully herding the fish towards the place they were supposed to appear. I had seven sublings. My Dad lived until the age if 94 and passed away this year. He was active his entire life and the only thing that slowed him down was when he started Dyalisis in his 90's. We never went hungry, even if we didn't always like what we ate. My Father was Nez Perce, Cayuse and Umatilla, with a tad bit of Scotch thrown in. I enjoy Yukon Men because it's real and I can relate to subsistence living. I love smoked fish. But my parents stopped eating fish that came out of the Columbia River because of the water quality, with all of it's pollutants. When I was growing up we fished in smaller, faster and colder rivers. My Dad grew up gaff fishing at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River until the government put dams in and it flooded the falls. Damn government. Hah! Have a good one Stan and thanks for the trip down memory lane!
You know what family camps are all about. Stan
anyone that does not like your video are crazy ,it shows you how life is ,my hat is off love it !!!!!
This is clearly not Stan's first salmon jerky Bar-B-Q...Truly knows his stuff.
Thanks for taking the time Stan to share some of your knowledge .
Great video Stan , watched you on Yukon men . Leaving the east coast , best gig you ever did . Your where you need to be and like . My pop was from.south jersey which is all like grown together subdivisions , and no hunting hardly allowed there no more . Deer everywhere , 30 miles from philly .im damn glad my dad married a southern gal and told him, he'll no she's not livin up there . So I've grown up swampin , hunting and fishing in Louisiana . Thank god ! I've been to anchorage once , but I sure wish back in my 20s I had come further inland there . I probably would have never left .
Looks like a lovely camp. Great cutting! I bet the aunties are real fast
Great lessons on fish strips. Few points that make difference between failure and success. Salmon strip heaven in the smoke house
Every situation is different but what we do here can be changed and adapted to other places hopefully.
Now this type of content, how to do Alaskan stuff, is why I watch Alaskan based shows. Thank you Stan, great video-I subscribed.
Just found your channel by accident! Very informative. I am in my 40’s and looking to live a lifestyle like yours. I’ll be limited a bit by the regulations here in Canada. I so wish I could move to Alaska. Much easier to live your lifestyle. Thanks again for the videos and please keep them coming. So much knowledge is being lost in today’s society!
Canada is better than Alaska in my opinion I would love to live in Quebec!
I’m happy to find you here sir! I hope you continue making episodes for your YM family out here in the world.
Thanks Stan. When I clicked on the video and saw you I thought, "hey I know that guy" and knew right away the video would be legit.
I Love watching this video !
That fish hanging Always gets my mouth watering.
Growing up, my mom`s brother would bring over 10 salmon
they got from a stream (nothing like yours of course).
Dad would cut them up, mom would always say
we`re going to get botulism off them, and can them up.
We never did get botulism, but always referred to them as botulism patties.
To this day, salmon is still a treat to me.
Thanks, to you Stan! From Texas right before Deer season. Your time to share the in and outs of fish fillet prep for smoking is appreciated. Seen you on TV before, you and your son. Good to see you working and sharing. Salute!!
Love your dry humor. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
I'm from Dorchester where humor is sarcastic and irreverent and dry. Or at least it was - now it is probably politically correct.
WoW! Almost a 20 min video. Thank you so much Stan.
I appreciate you sharing with us, Hope to see some more awesome
uploads of your day to day life in the Beautiful Alaskan Country. :)
My security system lists it as spam. ??
Just got back from one of the few coastal rivers that had an open king season. My friends as well as the other villagers were busy cutting and drying fish for the year. My daughter who teaches in the village cheats and uses an electric smoker. But this is far better. What I grew up with in the PNW. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing Stan. Never gets tired watching your videos . Looking for the trap line too. 😊
Stan thank you for the info really appreciate it. Just purchased some wind dried salmon from someone not going to mention any names but they sent us 4 oz for $30. I was shocked. Lol We live in Fla so just purchased a pound of wild Sockeye Salmon for $12 a pound followed your directions and came out great. Again thank you very much for the great videos.
so beautiful picture and your life looks great!
Now , it's time to plunge into that kind of life for me!
Hey STANN!!!
Nice to see you again!!! I followed the show until I cancelled my cable service.
Thanks for making this video!!!
Regards.
Fred.
I like how you roasted the dried fish over open fire!
Better than bacon if put in a hot fry pan and heated.
Wow! I'm just amazed by the landscape.. its looks heaven... hope it feels the same. So happy for you..
Nice video Mr. Stan! Enjoy you on TV as well!
Wow, i love your smokehouse!!!! Great Video and great place to life!!
I sure hope the runs improve on the Yukon for you Stan. Great job!
HEY STAN, THANK YO FOR THE VIDEO, I LOVE SMOKED FISH, ATE A LOT OF SMOKED CATFISH AS A CHILD, GREAT STUFF, THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR TIME WITH US.
Try deep fried catfish with pickles and coleslaw it’s the best!
Love your video Stan. Please show some of your hunting , skinning and dressing of your moose hunt, beaver, wildlife game . Basic hunting skills we can enjoy also. I love the life you all live up there in Tanina, Alaska. I love the Yukon Men on discovery channel. Thank you for sharing your awesome and humbling video.
Trying to get the family into making videos also of all that.
Thank you so much. You have taught us so much. I love your life. Keep on sharing these amazing videos. Aloha !
Excellent! I really enjoy the longer videos. Hope to see much more!
Holy cow that king meat looks so delicious! I can taste it! Lucky. That right there is one of the main reasons I.m moving to SE.
Your knife skills are beyond skilled my friend...could watch you cut fish all day! Thanks for sharing!
Enjoyed the video very much Stan. You are a great teacher. Hope you make more videos, you do a great job!
I enjoy putting them out for people to see.
After all these years, still have that accent. Coming from MA myself, I can appreciate it although we don't have one from my end of the state. Thoroughly enjoying watching the video. Can't wait to visit your state in September flying out of Boston.
thanks for the video Stan. we love hearing from ya.
MR Stan,i just love watching the Alaska Yukon men shoe try not to miss out on it...... Living out there i know that the life is hard work ,,but i love it and if i get the chance to live in Alaska were you guys are i will love too ...Watch you with your son on the show i wish that dad was in my life ,,,but i will be there for my kids god bless OR I LIVE IN TRINIDAD
I am jealous of how, your family and friends live. I'd love to raise my boys this way
Then why don’t you?!?
@@fionaokeefe1906 I do everything in Montana I can, I don't live in the middle of Alaska. Why don't you shut your mouth, you accomplish nothing being an annoying ass. Go find Shrek and crawl back into your swamp
Huge thanks for sharing, stuck in a dumb city but this reminds me that a better life is possible. Also that looks flippin delicious!
Which dumb city you still stuck in after 2 years dude?!? Your feet in cement of something?!? Been in that dumb city so long you looking like a statue!
Stan Zuray : I subscribed. Watching you process fish is like watching a master chef in the kitchen, and listening to you describe what you are doing makes me miss Yukon Men.
I'm looking forward to watching your other uploads. Thank you for this and I wish you good luck with hunting this winter.
Love me some Stan the man!!! Thanks for sharing!
Fan from TENNESSEE
KEEP SHARING PLEASE. GOD BLESS
Great job Stan, great way to keep in shape by necessity
Stan Zurai, ti seguo da sempre , mi piace la tua operosità e la tua conoscenza, sei un grande e la tua famiglia è semplicemente fantastica.
sono un pò invidioso, sopratutto per la vita nella natura più selvaggia che la vostra comunità vive.
un abbraccio a te a tuo figlio alla famiglia intera.
Thanks Stan, grew up eating this stuff in Dawson, and always wondered how it was made. Now to try and replicate this somehow in my backyard smoker :)
Hey Stan you are the man on Yukon Men
This is so amazing to watch!! Scenery is breathtaking! I find this to be much better than Yukon Men show was
Excellent video, Stan. Thanks, Art Nelson.
Nice video again Stan,,,,spring is on it's way
It's been decades since I have had good smoked salmon. I lived in the Pacific NW and it was an almost daily thing. There they used alder wood for the smoke but different people had their own specific methods.
I just ordered my barrel stove kit. Love your smoke house!
Nice video, love the scenery.
Please make more!
Thank you. You make it really interesting in a very personal way. Brings back nice memories for me.
Used to have a place on pamilco river in North Carolina and filleted flounder a certain way for my mother so she could stuff them with crabmeat.
Loved doing that.
Pretty stoked i found your channel. Miss watching you on discovery.
Que hermosa vida tiene ud sr ,en el rio yukon...bendiciones para ud y su familia......que bonito lugar su hogar ....
Great video I miss fish camp in Alaska fond memories of my time there.
"The knife is shop." Love it!
Loved your book "Carry On" Stan... but it was far to short... I read it in 4 hours and wanted sooo much more!! Maybe another one? Also, I really like your videos too... you remind me of my grandfather who had a farm near Pittsburgh PA!
We just finished making it into an audio book and be available right on Amazon with the paperback and ebook. Credit goes to my friend and author Tim Attewell who actually does all this work.
Enjoyed the videos. Always enjoying outdoors life. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your lifestyle with us.
a big thanks from the uk very good vid love seeing your life in the yukon
Wonderful video, so interesting looks so delicious thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks so much for posting this - Great info!
Hey. Love your channel to.
thank you mr zuray! i just moved to alaska last last winter i am catching fish and putting them in the freezer but it dosent feel right i am trying to learn and if it wasnt for you i wouldent have gotten so much reel life information thank you.
That's why I do the videos - glad they help. Stan
Absolutely beautiful! Well done.
1st time seen your videos stan, been watching your tv show ever since it started great show . Look foward to watching more of your videos .
I love salmon and those strips look yummy.
So glad I stumbled across your channel today Stan! Hello from New Hampshire (not quite Mass, but we're neighbors!)
Lived in Greenville for a year at a commune.
Nice area. We live about 40 miles east of there
Hey Stan! Wow I had no Idea that you had a channel! I am also a native of the north east. Love your lifestyle! Also love smoked fish!
Saw you on Discovery Channel a few times. Keep up the fine work Stan.
So glad that I looked you up. We have been watching the new Yukon Man and we’re concerned about Joey not appearing so googled and came across that you had a you tube channel. So new subscriber here.
The only trouble with me when I cut fish is what kind of knife to use. Most of rhe time my knife gets dull right away, but I try. Will definitly try this method. I live in the cariboo. I learned the hard way self taught because we lost our culture. Just happen to find your show and love it. Your dog was also very entertaining in the background.
Thumbs up if you would like to have a big bag of salmon strips dried and smoked to eat for the coming year!
So much info! Thanks for taking the time to make an awesome video like this
just found ur channel great content like you on yukon men too staysafe
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing.
Great video Stan, thanks for sharing.
Hey Stan!!! I didn’t know you have your own channel. I watched you on TV!
Ty for sharing. Very interesting. Arkansas here
that's pretty cool stand thank you I bet that is so good King Salmon is so expensive here and Tennessee
That smokehouse is packed! What a crazy blessing for the community. Thanks for sharing, though sorry your haul wasn't reds instead of kings. Also, wish you had done it truly traditional style with an ulu, but I guess the knife works too. Quyana!
Knife styles as well as Ulu styles have a traditional history among Athabascan natives going back thousands of years. (See Anchorage Alaska museum etc.) Steel knives and ulus in Alaska are all post contact.
Fair point. Thanks for keeping me honest on that one. Also, I should have recognized that your section of the Yukon is in Athabaskan country, especially given the use of the fish wheel.
I had to double check that one myself. As one moves to the mouth of the Yukon and into Coastal Yupik country the river actually experiences tidal influences and fish wheels don't work well in that up and down and upriver then downriver current I been told.
Thankyou for the fantastic video Stan.
Great Video!! Hope you, your family and friends are doing good.
As with us all life can change in a heartbeat but doing well at present and family okay thank you.
Love your vids, Stan. Wish I was there.
Seasons Greetings Stan Zuray your the man 👨
Love the smoke house. I wonder what real/good smoked salmon taste like. Never had it. Would have liked to see the smoker fired up and smokey. I have a small electric smoker and love doing pork and beef. I only use hickory. I thought about trying to do salmon for my wife. Great tip about the brine. Great video ! Thanks for sharing it ! It's very inspiring.
the hickory is too strong i wood prefer apple wood for the salmon...
I had no idea you had a UA-cam channel or I would've been watching
Another great video Stan. The information is superb.
Stan just found your channel...man awesome info....when you showed the smokehouse with all the strips you sure made me hungry...lol...I love Salmon, but in Virginia so ...well you can imagine....keep it up Bro....enjoyed!
I totally love watching this stuff cheers brother
Wholly shit, it's Stan from the TV show...awesome video...
So much useful info. Thank you so much, Stan!
Hey Stan!! Just stumbled upon your UA-cam channel! Pretty cool and educational. Anyway I can’t believe how much you’ve retained your Massachusetts accent!! I’m in Salisbury Massachusetts and the traffic even up on the North shore is a nightmare and getting worse. Sometimes i wish I lived in Alaska!!
Keep pumping out the videos, so far this is the second video I’ve watched and will probably watch them all eventually. Stay warm and safe up there!
great video, I dry and smoke most of my food here in Maine, picked out your accent immediately.. again Wliwni nizia than you brother
hi stan , im a bostonian too . enjoy your videos , was going to ask about your brine mix , but you did put it in at the end , thanks wayne ...''''
Great video, I didn't know you had a UA-cam channel, definitely subscribed, thanks!
Thanks for sharing.Great video!
Great video my friend you sir are living the dream👌
17 min , Awesome Stan love the video,Much Aroha from New Zealand.
Oh man I would love to be at fish camp with yall
Thanks for responding
We fished mostly out of Nenana. But i did fish one season in your area at Severt Jacobson's camp shortly after Jacobson passed away.
Must of been almost 30 years ago.
Do you know of the old Jacobson 's camp above the rapids? Must be someone else camp by now. Im sure some of the old timers around Tanana remember him.
Best fish in the interior in your area.Yukon King strips are the best.
Jake's camp is still standing but nobody there. His 18' baskets were in front of his camp for years and I copied his measurements on my earlier wheels sometimes. I used to come and help Russ Wood at his camp each summer for a few hundred fish each year - walk in 40 miles to Tanana from where we lived north of Tanana. Russ's camp was in sight of and below Rock Island on north side and he was a good friend of Jake. Only met Jake once with Russ.
Hi cuz!
great video stan, making me hungry..try that with trout or char but just let it dry outdoors for a week to ten days. it's what we call pitsik..dried fish. enjoys your videos, keep up the good work
Great video Stan
Enjoyed watching how you all do this on the Yukon. We harvest Copper River salmon and have noticed the smaller sizes here as well. I've been told the food source in the ocean are depleted and also the salmon are returning to the rivers in shorter periods now. They are returning after 3 years instead of 4 or 5 years. Don't know if its true but they are most certainly a lot smaller now.
We did a lot of work monitoring the King salmon migration in the middle/upper Yukon. Here's a short story about it from a well known investigative author. Much of what you hear about the causes of the problems with King salmon in our rivers are heavily influenced by people not wanting to admit management failure I believe.www.rapidsresearch.com/The_Fall_of_the_Yukon_King.pdf