Herman Bratvold
Herman Bratvold was Scandinavian. He was flown into Great Bear Lake in the 1930s by the famous bush pilot Wop May. He hauled logs to the silver concentrate mill there. From there he went to Great Salve Lake. The family lived at Moccasin Flats in Whitehorse and then moved to Carcross. Their house was at the bottom of the old Montana mine road in a section of [Dawson] Charlie's house that was moved there by the previous owner. Herman and son Larry commercially fished for whitefish in Atlin Lake and lake trout in Lake Laberge. They fished in the winter at Fish Lake, Fox lake, Kusuwa Lake, Aishihik Lake, Kluane Lake, Finlayson Lake, and Bennett Lake. The family moved to Dawson in the 1960s. Herman ran fish wheels for salmon at Forty Mile and had a winter trapline on the Sixtymile River that he ran with a partner named Bob who also had a line on the Blackstone River.1)