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Jason Nyman and Richard Kaer help shift a moose from the Stikine River's natural refrigerator near Farm Island on Sept. 17, assisted by Gary Allen in the backhoe. The animal was shot by Clay Hammer further upriver, after the party had about given up on hunting moose and moved on to trout fishing. Hammer said the moose was only the second he had successfully hunted on the river in nearly three decades, and after boning out the meat it yielded 500 pounds. "It was a good day." he said.