February 8th chasin' dinos!

The Outback Fishers!!!

Had a great day on the water with Des from Australia and his 2 sons Kyle and Sage, yup named Sage after the rod company just like my son! These kids were a couple keeners, and after missing a few bites in the beginning, they were all over those sturgeon! They managed to land 26 fish in under 4 hours, with 4 double headers (2 fish on at a time)They helped put some tags in new fish for the tagging program with the Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society. It was big smiles, and sore arms for the boys from ''down under'' before they had to jump on a plane back home. Nice work guy's :)

Another duck season comes to an end :(

Well another season comes to an end sadly! The last few days have been frosty and clear but today was  a bit milder with a thick low fog. All in all it was a great season. My regular duck hunting partner Chad and I are a little bummed, but probably not as much as my dog Fraser lol! Chad I relived a few memories of over a couple dozen hunts while enjoying a HUGE breakfast at our local "greasy spoon" here in Yarrow called the Vedder Mountain Grill. Only 8 more months till duck season ;)

Winter Sturgeon

Did the annual winter sturgeon trip with my buddies and their sons. We do it every year at the same time over the holidays to share some laughs and hopefully put some tags in some new fish for the mark recapture program that I'm part of with the Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society. The conditions were great and the fishing fantastic. We boated 50 fish in 5 hours, and only 16 were recaptures. Great to put some tags in a few new fish for the society. The boys were very busy landing, tagging, and recording data. Its great getting the kids involved with this. At one point all five rods had a bite at once, creating some interesting maneuvers! Looking forward to this trip again. Enjoy a couple pics from our day.

Bows, Bucks, and 'Bows!

 Just returned from my annual late season archery hunt for whitetail deer. This year was drastically different conditions than I'm used to for this hunt! It was very mild and wet making the hunting more challenging. I still managed to harvest another nice buck for the season with the bow! On a plus note, the river I hunt along is usually frozen and covered in snow, so this trip between hunting in the morning and evenings I managed to to slip a few casts in here and there! The river was just starting to ice up but I managed to find some rainbows swinging an "electrik" leech on a floating line, very cool :) 

November 25th Archery Blacktail deer :)

There is NOTHING better than still hunting your way along the side of a mountain, hoping for a chance to get within bow range of Blacktail buck! Yesterday I did exactly that! Was able to call this buck in using a Primos grunt tube, to 28 yards. After the shot he ran 30 yards and dropped out of sight? Weird, I thought to myself? I eased down to retrieve my arrow out of a cedar tree that it stuck in after passing clean through the buck. The blood trail was huge and there was no doubt in my mind that he laid right over that hill. HAHA, he was over the hill alright! And 35 feet down in the bottom of a waterfall! With a bit of caution I eased down to the bottom and cleaned and washed him up. 30 minutes later I had him up to where I could snap a few shots and process him. I was a loooong way from any roads so I had to process, and pack him out to my truck. I posted a few pics of what the country is like that these deer inhabit, thick, dense, wet bush that makes it very hard to find a buck, let alone slip an arrow through to its target so I consider myself very lucky to have taken this nice 3x3 Blacktail :) Definitely the hardest of the 3 species of deer that I hunt with a bow! Enjoy the pics.

What Blacktail country looks like!

How, and where I found him!

Nice 3X3

Hard to take a good photo by yourself??

1 butchered Blacktail buck

All packed up for the hike down

Never know what's going to come into the decoys??

Spent the last couple days shotgunnin for waterfowl. A great field shoot last night ended with 7 mallards and 1 pintail. This morning resulted in 3 mallards and a coyote! Yup, that's right a coyote! Seems that my duck call must sound real enough, and the decoys look right because this 4 legged killing machine was comin in hot, but was dropped in his tracks at 20 yards......