Hey All,
Just got home last night from my first ever grizz hunt. Hell, it was my first ever LEH pulled in BC! After moving to BC last January, I've spent the last several months planning and preparing for this spring and this coming fall. I moved to BC with the plan of hunting grizz, Stone's sheep, Dalls, goats, caribou, etc, etc and drawing a spring grizz tag was a priority for me this year with the impending election and the outlook of an NDP government closing things down. Seeing the results as drawn this fall on our second choice area was amazing. Buying and holding a grizz tag alone was a truly special feeling.
Timing was a BIG consideration for me, having to drive over 20+ hours to get to where we'd be hunting. We mulled over benefits and cons of going early vs late and talked to several people who had hunted the area, watched the weather, snowpack, etc and finally made a decision to go a bit earlier than we had originally talked about. The forecast for weather was decent, with a bunch of rain scattered in. We went up prepared for snow drifts, rain, warm weather, hiking, driving, etc.
The first few days were great as we started to learn the country. A long road detour due to avalanche cautions, a moved camp to be closer to what we figured was the good action, and we were hunting. Hell, we even saw a small doober grizz that first full day of hunting. He was on the road at about 100 yards and we got a good look at him as he trotted off, checking his back trail as Norm squawked on the predator call to stop him.
To be continued.....just hanging with daughter and trying to upload pics