Getting excited for the grass to green up in my traditional area so I'll share the story of my last year's fall solo moose hunt on a small fly in lake southwest of little dease. I've spent my whole life hunting my traditional area around Merritt and I had an urge to go moose hunting in a truly wild place . So i bought a resident hunting license and a moose tag and flew into my spot from dease on September 20th and stayed till October 4th. Time of my life I spent my first couple hours setting up my lean too and cutting firewood Wich sucked because there was a nice bull in the lake when I got there and he stayed for 5 of the 6 hours I was required to wait after flying in. That night I ate some bread and a spruce grouse I killed with a stick my nightly meal the whole trip I forgot to bring fishing gear. The next morning I tossed my canoe in the lake before the fog lifted and paddled around the lake seen 5 cows so I went up stream till evening and set up another camp once night fell I cow called for about an hour I had no watch or anything so I had no way to tell time other than its dark now and it's light now lol but when I woke in the morning I looked out over the creek I had paddled up and there was big bull with a cow about 200yards on the opposite side of the creek so I popped him with my trusty 30-06 right in the ear ate some bread and grouse then headed over for the work to begin now for those who haven't done a moose alone it's a full 12 hour shift of hard labor just to get it hung at my temporary camp I still had a several mile paddle back to the lake camp and I was alone with a dead moose in grzz country odd felling to say the least. Anyways day 4 heading back to lake camp to hang meat and rest till pick up. My canoe was riding much lower with a moose in there with me I did not think about this when I jumped over many beaver dams on my way up. This resulted in me being very wet and sore from unloading and reloading a moose into my canoe at every beaver dam. What took me one day to paddle up took 3 to paddle down when I got back to camp I had 2 days left to sleep and sleep I did right until a plane landing woke me up. When I got home I had lost 27lbs and looked pretty shredded though.
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Originally Posted by Rezpatrol
