gazjon5

Awesome looking rod pal

I live in Canada mate, I think we have something 20% of the Worlds fresh water and we still have to pay for it, and in lots of areas its shite or worse poisoning people

Cant see why it wouldnt work either. Your post reminded me of a day out with my mate years ago ferreting a bank / small hill, just nets and ferrets (no dogs). A rabbit bolted out of a hole we had missed with the nets, ran down the hill, across a small field, and up the bank opposite us. Their it disappeared down a hole. Not 3 seconds later it bolted out of a hole beside the first, and ran down the hill back towards us. We crouched down and the silly sod ran back across the field, up our bank and backnetted itself in a pursenet we had set. Thanks for reminding me!

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You can f**k right off with your spring, we probably still have another 8 weeks of snow on the ground here to look forward to, and it was -30 yesterday...

I think with bear a lot depends on what they have been feeding on. A fall bear that's been eating oats and berries all summer is meant to be superb. One that's had a lot of fish or been raiding trash for its diet is often on the other end of the scale, at least that's what a lot of people round here say.

That's a fair point, i still love to watch bears when i come across one, or listen to wolves howling at night, its just i now have no issue putting one down when needed. I am sure most on here love watching wildlife, even though we hunt. I have seen some pretty cool stuff since been over here, without a doubt the best was sat in a treestand with my son when a pack of 6 or 7 wolves of came past at about 50yds, leapfrogging each other while the stopped ones scanned ahead, it was awesome.

I was the same when I first got over here and had no interest in hunting bears or wolves. I think a lot of that I was down to the image the media / Disney/ antis portray of them. But after a couple of years I realised for me it's no different to hunting fox back home, there is a ton of them here and they do cause problems. Plus spring time is boring as f**k (you can't fish April / May with the ice break up) and bear season is the only thing to do.

Nope never tried it pal but a lot of people do, (the griz are protected here and cannot be hunted, black bear are common though and an over the counter tag to hunt). Just to note over 60% of Alberta is crown land, and there is no need to get permission to hunt it, you just have to make sure you follow the seasons, bag limits etc. The fish and wildlife officers here have more power than the coppers and dont feck about lol... Edited to add the 60% includes some parks like Jasper / Banff where you cant hunt, (but there is still a ton of land where you dont need permission)

Yes mate, we have had a couple, there is no shortage of them or grizzly here.

They do take a fair bit of stock in areas where they overlap mate, but they do a right number on the wild game (moose, elk deer)as well, pretty much to the point the populations collapse and then they starve and die off anyway. It all goes in cycles., its just the cycles can take years / decades to play out and if the numbers are controlled the goal is to try and keep it in some semblance of balance.

Thanks for that Mack, I hadn't seen it before