| Ripp |
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| 18/11/14 09:34 AM |
Hunt for Moose in Canada takes some unexpected turns
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http://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/hunt...nexpected-turns
| DarylS |
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| 18/11/14 09:54 AM |
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Ray and Reg- great guys.
Spatsizi is splendid indeed.
| Sville |
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| 18/11/14 11:39 PM |
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Thanks for sharing that story!!It was interesting to read.
| Rule303 |
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| 19/11/14 08:52 AM |
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That is a good read. Love to do that hunt some day.
| Ripp |
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| 20/11/14 06:53 AM |
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Quote:
That is a good read. Love to do that hunt some day.
Agree --would be a great and fun trip...
Ripp
| DarylS |
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| 20/11/14 09:36 AM |
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In 1977, IIRC, Laslui Lake's rainbows were averaging about 3 1/2 to 4 pounds. The bull trout ran MUCH heavier. I nailed one on a croc spoon and my 11' shore casting outfit(open face spinning reel), that fed the entire camp - 2 wranglers, cook, 2 guides and 6 hunters one supper and 'trout-salad sandwiches' for lunch the next day. I'd estimate it was a good 15 pounds, might have been over that, maybe not - seems to me it was about 34" long- again long time ago, but some details quite fresh in memory. The cook cut it in half to bake it in the wood stove oven.
So - if you ever get there - take a fly rod. The fish are not picky. Once the rains start mid to late August, they'll hit most anything.
Hutlesklwa Creek is also good fishing.
I just googled it not knowing if I had the spelling correct. This is what I got.
https://theannabrown.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/the-story-of-simon-gunannoot/
| Sville |
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| 20/11/14 07:47 PM |
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Great story, thanks Daryl!
| Ripp |
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| 21/11/14 12:45 AM |
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Thank you for the info Daryl
Good to know if I ever make it that way...
Ripp
| DarylS |
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| 21/11/14 04:09 AM |
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That is the Hutlesklwa range behind the creek. Used to be goats and Stone Rams, seems to me.
| dracb |
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| 21/11/14 03:33 PM |
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I agree they are great guys who built their business from the grass up. Their success is well earned. I remember well their first summer building their cabin at Kluyaz Lake and building their river boats on site from kits. It was a looong walk up to the plateau to hunt Mtn Caribou or to climb the mountain across the lake to go for goats, but the moose and grizzlies at times virtually walked into camp.
I am still jealous about their abilities to pull one steelhead after another out of the out flow from the lake.
| DarylS |
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| 22/11/14 04:11 AM |
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HA! - I flew out of Laslui Lake in the otter with Emil, stopping at Klyaz to pick up the frame of Ray's PA-12. It had blown up and burned while he was filling a wing (IIRC) tank from a step-ladder using a chamois lined bucket pouring from another bucket to transfer the av-gas. It was so hot and dry - nasty static, I assume - BLOOM! - blowing him off the ladder and into the lake, luckily not burned or not burned badly.
I picked up the frame as it was sitting on the bottom right beside the dock and held it against the left float of the otter while Amile tied it on. The air frame didn't weigh more than 100pounds, it felt like - quite light- amazingly so - I was young and strong.
Too bad that frame wouldn't fit inside. With so much induced drag, we couldn't get more than 85 knots out of the Otter, a long flight not planned for and our air speed was not a lot over stall speed for the big 650HP radial Otter.
We almost ran out of fuel ourselves before getting back to Smithers Air Service at McClure Lake, Telkwa. Emil was tapping the fuel gauges when we were still a quite few miles from the lake - looking rather concerned over the hood, no place to set down if the engine stopped, nothing but tree tops. He kept switching the fuel tanks, back and forth, milking every ounce of fuel out of the lines. Good thing we had some height.
Ahhhhh, the memories - seems a different life time ago, yet it was only, what, 36 or 37 years back? HA!
Thanks for that original post, Art. I hope I didn't hijack this threat - too badly? It is, after all, about Spatsizi.
| dracb |
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| 22/11/14 06:52 AM |
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I think it was 44 years ago that I built that dock the first week I was in Canada.
| DarylS |
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| 23/11/14 03:11 AM |
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Small world. Now that I think about it, not sure if it was Kluyaz or Kluytantan. I think Kluyaz.
| AdamTayler |
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| 23/03/16 04:07 PM |
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Get your draws and then apply for this position:
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/aboutBCParks/employment/volunteerHost/volunteer_host_spatsizi.html
| controlled_feed |
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| 23/03/16 06:19 PM |
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I cannot recomend Collingwoods highly enough. I hunted there last September with Kurt McGhie. It is THE best hunt I have ever been on. More food than I could eat. The horses are trail sure and calm.The guides are top notch. The wildlife and the place is amazing. I will be going back when I can. I don't have any photos upoloaded anywhere to post them, I'll put a couple up later tonight.
| DarylS |
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| 24/03/16 04:08 AM |
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Ray and Reg Collingwood are great guys and guides.
I cut my guiding teeth in Ray's Laslui Lake camp, back in 1977, I think it was. Hutlesklwa River flows right through the camp, and down into the lake, about 1/4 mile away, iirc.