My good friend Omar and I decided to go try for a moose this year. Omar drew an any bull moose tag. It just so happened that a coworker has a cabin in the same unit and offered to let us stay at his place during the hunt. You need either a boat or a float plane to get to the cabin in the summer (the boat ride is about 6 hours). I had an over-the-counter general bull moose tag just in case we happened to get real lucky. See the next blog post (part 2) for that story.
The gear for a week at moose camp. The plan was to fly in a smaller plane, so they had to keep the gear weight under 500 lbs. Otherwise there would have been more beer.
Moose country.
The old trappers cabin on the lake. You can get in via snow machine in the winter, it's about a 2 hour ride. That's how most of the bush cabins haul in their freight and supplies.
Paddling in search of moose.
Omar's bull on first day of hunting. He violated rule #1 of moose hunting...never shoot a moose in the water (it's a lot of work to get them out). There was a lot of water everywhere this year as we had some heavy rains leading up to the hunt. Areas that were normally dry were flooded.
A great bull with about a 45" antler spread.
We elected to go back and get the motor boat for this job. It took a couple of hours to get the bull skinned and quartered.
We didn't make it back to camp until after dark.
It's nice having the luxuries of motorized equipment when dealing with a dead moose. We spent the whole next day hanging and cleaning the swamp crud off the moose.
Finally...a little spare time to hook into some pike on the fly rod. They like flies about 6" long. We used steel fly leader to keep them from biting through the line with their razor sharp teeth.
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