Considering property (Fairbanks, Nenana, Manley Hot Springs: real estate, 2010, subdivision)

[smurphy2000]

Originally Posted by Marty Van Diest

Wow...Deadman Lake again?

I don't know why you have to haul water in. You have a whole lake full.

You can just boil it, or treat it, or filter it.

Yeah I know. And there are three of em so go figure.

I was meaning water to the property, cabin if he builds it, it is about a mile up the slope from the lake.

You know I always remember my grandma telling the story of going to visit her aunt. Her aunt had to get their water from the creek down the slope 100 feet from their house. Her aunt had stopped halfway and was happy to see Grandma, she had dropped one of the two buckets she was carrying. Seems she had gone into labor. They delivered the baby and then finished getting the water.

She was more woman than I!!!

Doesn't have much to do with the topic, but it always comes to mind when I see people's eye's glaze over and talk of the simple life.

[smurphy2000]

This is probably a stupid question, but...

Does this lake have any Fish? If so what kind? What are the season? I know it is within a good hike to Tanana river, that is one of the reasons I picked it. but are there any in the lake? Everything I read says it is glacier fed and they do not stock it. So I was assuming there weren't any???


and do you have any cell or satillite services available? I mean for emergencies and stuff?

Thanks again for any help you can give.

[mitgreb]

Originally Posted by smurphy2000

This is probably a stupid question, but...

Does this lake have any Fish? If so what kind? What are the season? I know it is within a good hike to Tanana river, that is one of the reasons I picked it. but are there any in the lake? Everything I read says it is glacier fed and they do not stock it. So I was assuming there weren't any???


and do you have any cell or satillite services available? I mean for emergencies and stuff?

Thanks again for any help you can give.

Pike, Burbot, and white fish. Not good cell service. It is not glacier fed. It is fed buy snow and rain has no inlet and Very small outlet.

[Marty Van Diest]

Originally Posted by mitgreb

Pike, Burbot, and white fish. Not good cell service. It is not glacier fed. It is fed buy snow and rain has no inlet and Very small outlet.

Whitefish. I wish we had some here in South Central. It's one of my favorites. Anyone know where to catch some whitefish in southcentral?

I suppose I wouldn't know how to catch them anyway, we always used nets and traps. I don't think that would go ever well in the Little Su.

[mitgreb]

Originally Posted by Marty Van Diest

Whitefish. I wish we had some here in South Central. It's one of my favorites. Anyone know where to catch some whitefish in southcentral?

I suppose I wouldn't know how to catch them anyway, we always used nets and traps. I don't think that would go ever well in the Little Su.

I have never seen one caught at Deadman I sure don't know how to catch them....

[Marty Van Diest]

In Lake Minchumina they used nets under the ice.

When I was a kid they fenced the river from bank to bank with a willow fence and then dip netted in big holes in the ice just downstream from the fence. Also, in the spring big 4-5 pound humpbacked whitefish were dip netted as they migrated upstream.

They used fishtraps under the ice as well.

In Allakaket and other Koyokuk River villages I think they still use seines just before freezup.

All of those are very efficient ways to catch whitefish. They are great eating.

[Rance]

Originally Posted by Marty Van Diest

Whitefish. I wish we had some here in South Central. It's one of my favorites. Anyone know where to catch some whitefish in southcentral?

I suppose I wouldn't know how to catch them anyway, we always used nets and traps. I don't think that would go ever well in the Little Su.

I've caught whitefish in the Kenai River although it's rare. And I speared one through the back of the head in the east fork of the Moose River near where it crosses the highway on the Sterling Flats, south of Watson Lake, south side of the highway. There were a bunch in there. I snapped of a dead burn pole and made the best shot ever...right through the back of the head. It never even twitched! I didn't even have to carve the end of the stick!
Survivor man...eat your heart out!

[CatherineFrances]

Interesting thread.

What happened with the original poster who had the woman UP her price on the land that he was interested in?

Did he find another piece of land elsewhere?

Thank you.

[Marty Van Diest]

Originally Posted by Rance

I've caught whitefish in the Kenai River although it's rare. And I speared one through the back of the head in the east fork of the Moose River near where it crosses the highway on the Sterling Flats, south of Watson Lake, south side of the highway. There were a bunch in there. I snapped of a dead burn pole and made the best shot ever...right through the back of the head. It never even twitched! I didn't even have to carve the end of the stick!
Survivor man...eat your heart out!

Pretty impressive.

I have caught them on single eggs laying on the bottom. But we could see the fish...they still weren't easy to catch. That was in the interior.

[wander1980]

Thanks for the info! I love hearing these stories, even if I never get up there.