Thank you! We sure have fun together 😊

The good old days when you could still find a spot and not be crowded with people. 😁

Yes, we’ve watch them and think that’s a great idea.😊

Absolutely the best salmon I’ve every eaten. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoy the videos.

You’ve got to do it. Things are always changing in life, so do it sooner then later.

You’re welcome and thank you for taking the time to watch it. Have a great day.

I feel so blessed to be able to harvest food from the land and sea. I just finished editing tomorrow’s video of my caribou hunt.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska Can't wait to watch that. 😁👍

Thanks for watching.

I agree, there is just something about that place. Its gotten pretty full of people from when we started fishing this river but it still holds a place in my heart for an exciting way to get my fish for the year. Maybe I'll see you next year.

Wildwood Off Grid Alaska see you then. Have a good winter

Thanks for watching. It’s an amazing place to live and I’m so glad we can show you guys a little piece of Alaska.

Thank you. 😁👍

Thank you.

Thank you for your service.

How do you survive winter though???

WOW!!! That is amazing!!! We are so so super excited 😊🙏 thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Glad you enjoyed it😊. Dipnet season is one of my all time favorite parts of summers in AK. Thanks for watching.

Where in Alaska are you thinking of moving? Welcome to the greatest state in the union.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska I am not sure yet where I want to go... Anchorage is too dangerous for me (earthquakes) but I'd like to be near a good VA hospital somewhere, for sure. I definitely want to be where I can hunt and fish.

If you want to be close to VA you’ll need to stick close to anchorage or the MatSu Valley. I use the VA clinic in the valley and they have been amazing.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska MatSu Valley... I'll look into it.

Greetings and welcome to our channel. Thanks for watching.

Thank you

Thank you, glad you enjoyed.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska How many you can catch per day ..on that way!? Interesting to me Ok..

The limit this year was 25 plus 10 more per person in the family.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska This is good and Nice clean Fish ..Omg..! 👌🍁🐟🐠🐡💕✌

Hopefully this year we have a better run. It’s always a good time and beautiful scenery.

Wow!! Thanks for taking the time to check out our small channel. The Copper River is always a fun trip. You guys should try it out some time. Let us know if you need a guide to show you the ropes.

Hi guys. I see you!

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Welcome! 😊

Love it! Glad to have you join us

Wildwood Off Grid Alaska 😊. Feel free to check out my channel if you care to.

Awesome! Welcome and thank you for the kind comment😊

It can be dramatically reversed look up how bad the rivers in maine where when papermills an factory's where dumping then a maine resident that had polluted rivers when growing up became a politician got support now the water is clean with healthy fish and also ducks and other birds

Ouch!! $30 per lb. Makes me glad i live in a place that I can catch them. Thanks for watching.😊

Thank you, welcome to the channel.

I’m with you on that. Life has a funny way of changing you plans. I expected to be much further on the Tok place already. I do have the well scheduled to be drilled, so that’s progress. Stay tuned.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska Will do.

If you get the chance, do it. It’s a ton of fun!!

Chicken food.

I’m not sure and I’m not home to check for you on the freezer but we’re so glad you found us and are enjoying the content. Welcome.😊

No, there’s gold all over this area but I have never had the desire to pursue it in any real way.

Where’d you go for your silvers?

I go around Valdez. I'm not much of a fan of the combat fishing. Generally a buddy and I either take a crawdad out and fish just off shore, or we hike out on a point and strand ourselves for the tide. What we call "commando fishing". We have a week long trip, as well as a three day weekend the following weekend at peak silvers. Hit me if you want, and maybe we can meet up? I'm not too keen on posting the dates for anyone, so email me austinholmmcrae@gmail.com

We have some family friendly spots too, if you have older folks or kids. Generally Valdez has the strongest silver run from my own experience. I've tried a charter out of Homer, and shorefished Seward, but neither could beat Valdez

Thank you😊

Ouch!!

I’m not exactly sure the mileage to the ocean. The river flows down from Chitna to Cordova, but the quality of the fish is amazing, so fresh and delicious. In our opinion, by far the best tasting salmon we’ve ever had! 😊👍🏻

All the salmon spawn in clearer upriver tributaries of which there are many on the copper.

We cut it into steaks. It tastes amazing!

How do those items have anything to do with off grid. What, is someone that lives off grid supposed to be poor and struggle though adversity every step of the way? You need to seriously rethink you ideas on life.

That’s awesome!! It’s always fun on the copper. Glad you liked the video.

I subscribed to your channel. keep the videos coming good stuff to watch when I’m not hunting or fishing myself. Lol

Lol!!! That’s funny! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska It's always great to get a good laugh! It's healthy too! 🤭😉🙃

Thanks for watching. 😊

The amount of fish that sport fishermen and dipnetters harvest is hardly a drop in the bucket in comparison to commercial fishing

Sorry for the disappearing act. Didn’t expect to be there for another week but we got it done. Thanks for watching.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska stuff happens . my parents used to go to Nome every summer

Now that’s a remote place.

Wildwood Off Grid Alaska yep. I have never been so I am living the Alaskan life through y’all. Lol

We general camp in the first parking area heading down to O’Brien creek.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska thanks so much, it looked beautiful.

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I used to cast net for my salmon down at sweetheart creek when I lived there.

After left Coos Bay Oregon and moved to Juneau in 1982 I always stuck to commercial fishing till the circulation got worse in my legs from being burned when I was 8. Now down here in southwest Oklahoma not many places to do much fishing that anyone can get much out of. Can't drive right now from a seizure when I was driving which leaves me stuck for doing much getting out. I miss commercial fishing. Been here since 2003 the woman I moved here to be with passed Sep 2009 cancer. The new lady I'm hoping will be I'm hoping she will want to go somewhere new to me and I can get to doing something new. I always wanted to commercial fish when i was young even in Oregon. I got to watch what I do I know legs got worse last February from spending the month in the hospital between Oklahoma City and Shawnee OK with pemonya.

Sorry about your health issues. I hope you get a chance to get out and do some of the things you enjoy soon. Take care.

It's part of life now but I got to make some changes one of these days

Haven’t for 20 yrs.😊

It’s a common practice for many Alaskans including Natives to subsistence or personal use fish. It’s a more efficient way to gather food.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska watch my video on my chanel its me dipnetting also

Good compost and chicken food.

Has nothing to do with need and you’re welcome to your opinion. 😁

Ron, it's a great way to harvest a bunch of high quality fish in a short time. Besides, reds don't bite so there's that.

Thanks for watching.

It was a great video other than that part though I enjoyed the video just wish you used the bellies and collars for smoking and or canning is all

Thanks for watching. The time period that our fishing occurred it was legal to retain one King Salmon per permit. As of the 22nd king salmon was closed for retention. I guess we were lucky we went early.😁

I totally uderstand.🙂

Thank you for the compliment and the criticism. I definitely take my time. I know some commercial fishermen that are blindingly fast and I’ll never be there. Have a great day and thanks for watching.

When the day comes, I guess we’ll change our process. 😊

You can make fish soup out of the head and other bones. And you have lots of left over in the bones.

Why not?

I appreciate your point of view. I’ve lived here for over 25 yrs and one thing I’ve learned about salmon fishing is that it’s a use it or loose it resource meaning that they are already in the river and going to die. As long as ADFG is managing the escapement numbers properly, then the resource is going to be sustainable and how I fillet has no bearing on that fact. Look at nature, a bear will catch a salmon and only eat the belly leaving the rest for the other creatures to eat. I use the entire salmon, just not in the way you do. I choose instead to either compost the waste or boil it down and feed my dogs. Either way the resource is being used. Thanks for watching and commenting.

True enough. I'd rather you contribute and take part, regardless of fillet skill. I also understand that dipnetting reds is alot different from using a rod and reel for silvers and Kings. Maybe I'm brainwashed into wasti g too much time on all of my fish. I mean, I even make fish head stock out of the carcasses and the heads, which is great in any Salmon chowder or bisque. Salmon dominates any flavor, so sadly it needs to just be salmon though. I really stretch what I can get out of my fish

I've also never been dipnetting, so the most fish I've ever had to fillet in one sitting must be around 20 max, silvers as they are what I primarily fish, so I have no idea what it's like to process all of those reds. I process all of my own fish, and I have heard that you can get an absolutely ridiculous amount of reds in just a short while dipnetting, so I'm sort of ignorant when it comes to that. I am just watching your video again, getting pumped for this fishing season!!!!

My buddy is trying to drag me to chitna. Here is to hoping that my work schedule will allow it!!!

That is why I call it grocery shopping. 😁

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska Haha