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Since I have been reading some former posts on your site and, since I think NZ is a beautiful place I hope to visit some day, I decided to join. :) I am retired now after many years of ranching and guide-outfitting. My life has alway revolved around hunting, fishing, trapping and shooting. Hope to continue reading some interesting posts on this forum and contribute when appropriate. :)
Welcome aboard. Plenty of like minded people hang out here:)
Welcome aboard, feel free to post some pictures as we all appreciate hunting/landscape pictures from other places
Welcome, been dreaming to get to BC sometime.
Hi there BC is beautiful too, welcome
Welcome, hope we see you down-under sometime. Meanwhile feel free to share some photos or yarns from BC. You have some impressive landscapes & animals.
Welcome. I have a good friend over there from NZ right now. Himself and a mate are doing the remote lodge fishing thing, with a camera person along to make sure that we get to know what we are missing.
He keeps sending me pics of the awsome crabs and prawns...drool
Howdy Makwa
What part of BC?
Hopefully I'll get up there to tag along on a moose hunt at the end of the season this year.
Regarding NZ being a beautiful place, it is. But everything NZ has, Canada has it too. But in Canada it's bigger and it's better.
Thanks for the welcomes. :) I live in NW BC. It is indeed beautiful here, which is probably why I find NZ appealing, as you folks live in a beautiful part of the world as well.
Pengy...we live about a 6 hour drive from the coast and the wife and I, along with some friends from the EU, are heading for the salt water the end of August. Should be good fishing then for Coho salmon, and we will do our best to get some ling cod and halibut to get us through the winter.
Where we live we have excellent fishing for rainbow trout, lake trout, whitefish and burbot (freshwater ling).
Anyways, I do hope to get down there to do the tourist thing, and hopefully go on a hunt if I can swing it. Like to get a tahr, but not sure the old carcass is up to it any longer. All the mountain hunts and heavy packs over the years have taken their toll. ;)
Welcome and enjoy.
I am sure a Tahr will be within reach for you. Not all Tahr country mountaineering. There are some quite accessible areas on the east coast. Especially if you enjoy a helicopter ride.
Welcome. Great to have you aboard. Lived in Canada a few years and still believe my moose hunt there was the most memorable I have had. We flew in from Lake Muncho and spike camped on horseback for 12 days. A dream come true.
Still have a Black Bear hunt on the list.
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I'll look into that Shearer. :) Appreciate the info.
Southcity I have hunted and guided up in that Muncho Lake country a fair amount in the past. Beautiful area. I killed my Stone ram west of Muncho up in the headwaters of the Gataga River. I also love moose hunting. Wife and I both grew up on moose meat, so it is always high on our list every year when planning the fall hunting.
Black bear are no problem. Was out a couple nights ago looking for a big boar and we saw half a dozen in a couple hours. Lots of bears. I am rather picky now after almost 55 years of black bear hunting. Has to be a bruiser. My two best spring boars weighed 462 and 511 pounds.
I worked out of Muncho Lake around 2007.
Very pretty country side.
Welcome Makwa.
Great lodge they run there!Quote:
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I’ll get back in the future. I saw stone sheep when chasing moose. What really struck me hunting in there was the vastness and remoteness. Here’s my moose.Quote:
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Nice bull Southcity. :thumbsup: There is some remote country left up there, that is for sure.....but it is decreasing every year as new access is created for mining, oil and gas, logging, etc. There were some pretty significant changes to the moose seasons up there this past year and the closed caribou completely in that region. Indigenous land claims and politics are really having an impact in the province these days. There are going to be significant changes coming down the pike and we are not going to like them.
There are indeed some beautiful lodges up in that country now. Probably 90% of the outfitting businesses up there have changed hands in the last few decades. Should have seen that country back when I first started to hunt up there back in the late 70's. It was awesome!!
Mate is at Queen Charlotte lodge, wherever that may be. They are getting some great fishing with Salmon and Halibut the main targets so far. Looks like stunning country
Those islands are about half way up the BC coast. They are now called Haida Gwaii...not the Queen Charlottes. After all we cannot have anything with a "colonial" name now can we, so the rename is what the local indigenous people, the Haida, want the islands called. It is indeed a beautiful place with fantastic scenery and great fishing. The islands are loaded with tiny Sitka blacktail deer and also produce some huge black bears. Very wet environment with some incredible old growth forests.Quote:
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