7-27

[two-feet]

How long is the drive from ft st james into the bridge at the S end of takla? Anybody know what shape the roads are in?

I will be heading in for the last days of Nov, not sure if the barge across babine will be down for freeze up.

Anybody ever see any whitetails in there?

[604redneck]

Why the hell are you going in there that late. Its like 4 1/2 hours. No white tail that i have ever seen. I dont know about the barge.

[decker9]

Heading there in a couple days goat'n, from Fort, if I remember correct, it's a couple hours to the middle river bridge, another 2-3 hours to the cottonwood at the other end of the lake. Been up to middle river a couple times this year, the main Rd (driftwood I think) was in great shape. I took the barge back in august, pretty sure they run all winter don't they?
Iv never seen a wt up there, mind you Iv never seen a moose either in all my trips up that way. But there's goats! Lol.

[two-feet]

Heading there in a couple days goat'n, from Fort, if I remember correct, it's a couple hours to the middle river bridge, another 2-3 hours to the cottonwood at the other end of the lake. Been up to middle river a couple times this year, the main Rd (driftwood I think) was in great shape. I took the barge back in august, pretty sure they run all winter don't they?
Iv never seen a wt up there, mind you Iv never seen a moose either in all my trips up that way. But there's goats! Lol.

Good info, thanks. Barge runs while they are logging but shuts down for break up and freeze up. Never seen a moose! Shit!

[two-feet]

Why the hell are you going in there that late. Its like 4 1/2 hours. No white tail that i have ever seen. I dont know about the barge.

Because i enjoy hunting, and that is when i can go

[604redneck]

Take a snowmobile with you.......and have fun. I guided in the area for a bit so was curious as to why so late when only deer are open.

[two-feet]

Moose draw closes nov 5. Packing snow shoes and boot leather

[604redneck]

Oh ok. Thought you were literally talking end of november lol. Well i hope you get one. Pm me for specifics on locations to focus and such.

[decker9]

Just got back from up that way. Just a note if your heading up past takla landing.... white people are not welcome!! Lmao.
Got stopped at road construction on my way home yesterday, the native flagger lady was, let's just say not happy that I (white person) was up there hunting. She stopped 2 other vehicles (white moose hunters) as she had me stopped, she took their names and plate #'s and asked where they were going. She then said she would be sending people to come find them. What that meant, I don't know.

Nothing ilegal about hunting up there, but after this run in (I was by myself), I'd be concerned about my safety and belongings. It was very obvious that I was not welcome.
Do not let this stop or change hunt plans, but I would recomend contacting the band office and rcmp if you do head up that way, and set up a couple game cams around camp. If you get stopped by natives, start your phone on video incase chit goes south. I wish I would have thought about it.

Just so your covered.

Good luck!

[two-feet]

Thanks for the heads up, sounds pretty lame. I will not be heading up takla way, going to be around natowite mostly. Or if we dont see any sign, we will move around.

[BigD_83]

I just got back from 7-27 west of Takla, camping first up at 55km, then a couple of days later at the south end of Nanowit. Had a run-in with a FN brushing crew up around 66km. They were pretty adamant that we couldn't hunt north of some unspecified and moving line of their family hunting grounds, and made a not-so-veiled reference to shooting back if they heard gunshots. Complete BS. After watching them drop a moose out of their so-called hunting territory and then telling us that was the line we couldn't cross, we decided to move from our first camp to our second. We had no support as we were the only hunters around at the time. Turned out to be a good move anyhow, as our second camp was far nicer than the first. My partner and I agreed that without trail cams at our camp, we would have been SOL if they had decided to trash it.

We weren't seeing much sign outside of one or two heavily loaded areas, and the cows were strangely absent until near the end of our trip. We filled one of our tags, but we saw more wolves than moose over the 10 days. The good news is we called our bull in, and it wasn't a completely random, on the road encounter. Maybe it was a little too warm for them the first week, as we only had sub-zero temps two nights of the 10 we were actually hunting.

You'll find moose eventually, but you might have to get away, off the roads a little bit. Perhaps a bit of snow on the ground will help you see fresher sign.

[hunter fisher]

we had problems in 7-26 with aggressive FN aswell. don't let it detour you though! keep on grinding

[Caribou_lou]

Thanks for the heads up, sounds pretty lame. I will not be heading up takla way, going to be around natowite mostly. Or if we dont see any sign, we will move around.

Some good char in Natowite!

[two-feet]

Ah jeez, sure hope no issues with hotheads up there. Not heading in until oct 27 so not even sure access will be possible with snow then. Barge will be down for freeze up then i think so we plan on driving in from ft st james if need be.

Thumbs up to big char, we will have rods, ruby eye wigglers, five of diamonds!