Got any caribou pictures......

2lumpy

2lumpy

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....... you'd care to share.

eel, I read an old post where you said you'd killed a caribou some years back. Any images you'd care to share?

I wanted to hunt the mulchatna herd back in 2000 with my youngest son. After many inquiries we decided to go else where. I should have done it ten years earlier.

What year did you go.

DC
 
What year did I hunt caribou? That's a good question....I've been asking myself that same question for a few years now. It was the Mulchatna Herd when it was at its peak...a couple years before the big crash.

I posted a photo and brief account of the hunt back in 2005....so the hunt was sometime before that...if that helps. :D

I did a search and actually found it. After reading it again, the hunt seems like it took place this year. The memories keep flooding back, so thanks for asking DC!

http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/DCForumID24/68.html

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Great Caribou Eel!



Oh DC wouldn't like to hunt caribou, its OTC for residents up there. In fact before the crash it was same day airborne and 5 caribou per day for residents. But now its like region G....

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Since DC shook my memory of my caribou hunt....

It was the third night. I had what was left of the caribou meat in my tent, bears or no bears. I was fast asleep when an airplane flew directly over me. All I could tell was that it was a multi engine prop plane. I was awake at that point but my eyes were shut. I started to drift back to sleep when I heard the plane circle and come back. After it flew directly over me again, I opened my eyes.

Through the tent fabric, I saw what appeared to be flames flickering outside. My first thought was forest fire! Well, in this case tundra fire. How could that be with all this rain? I didn't even have a campfire...what did I do? Oh crap!

I quickly got dressed. I even tied my boots, thinking I might have to make a run for it. I was shaking when I looked at my watch which said 1:10am.

I ran out of the tent and there was no fire. What I saw was a big ball of bright light in the sky. It lit the entire place up like daylight. It was slowly descending toward the ground and about the time it went out, the plane flew over again and dropped another one. I just stood there wondering WTH? I even waved about the fourth pass as I'm sure they could see me. :D

For the fifth time the plane flew over, dropped a light, and then took off. When the last light went out it was dead quiet and pitch black once again.I eventually crawled back into the tent and went back to sleep wondering what had just happened?

The next morning it was misty and kind of foggy. I was eating breakfast when I heard a helicopter. It flew in and landed on the ridge about 300 yards from me. It was a big military helicopter of some sort, or appeared to be.

By now I was kind of miffed and I made the decision to go over there and confront whoever it was. I got about half way there when it lifted up and took off. All I could do at that point was laugh it off. WTH?

After breakfast, I was determined to go find one of the parachutes. I needed to see what they were. I found one right away. It had a silver "coffee can" attached to parachute cord with a beautiful silk or nylon parachute. There was some white residue on the can. I gathered it all up and took it back to camp. At least I had proof it wasn't a dream. :D

When Mark flew in to pick me up, I told him the story but he seemed disinterested and in a hurry. He said he heard about a plane wreck but it was a good 100 miles from where we were.

One of the last items to load was my souvenir parachute. He looked at it and said "You're not putting that nasty thing in my airplane. Leave it there". He didn't seem in the mood for an argument, so we jumped in the plane and dove off the mountain back to civilization.

For the longest time I expected to get a knock on my door and get arrested for whatever it was I did wrong. I never heard a thing. :D



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Hunted them in Quebec this fall. Unfortunately it was the final season that caribou hunting will be allowed in the province of Quebec.

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Great pictures everybody, thanks for sharing.

The color contrasts created by the fall foliage is simply spectacular. The different shades of red, orange, yellow, and green against the granite grey of the rocks, under a brilliant blue sky is simply breath taking. It makes me want to go back, if not to hunt, then to get another drink of the crystal clear water that flows across through the rivers and lakes and to rest my eyes on the fall beauty of the North American Tundra. It's an experience every outdoors man and woman should have at least once in their life,

Now I guess I'm going to have to go dig out a few pictures of my own to share, but...........eelgrass has set the standard so high that I'm a little intimidated to share my humble offerings.

eel you are an independent ole rascal, I can't even imagine getting drop out there by myself. It's another window into who you really are. You killed a huge beautiful caribou, did you have it mounted, I really enjoyed seeing how it looks mounted.

The rest of you killed great looking caribou as well, thanks for sharing.

DC
 
Wow....those are great photos sticksender. Quite the successful hunt too.

I didn't have mine mounted. The rack is hanging in the rafters of the garage.

Yes, please show us your caribou DC!

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Whew......had to dig down through 17 years of history to find these, but glad I did, like you said eel, it was a great trip back thought the memory archives, took me back to a good place in time.

These are pretty grainy pictures but they are beautiful to me. :)

Pictures are from two trips, 2000 and 2001.

The wolves chased a small herd of bulls our way, this was the biggest of the group.
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After removing the velvet......and waiting for the float plane to arrive on September 11, 2001......which never came. It was three more days of anxious waiting before they showed up to haul us in.
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My son mounted him for me, he now hangs in small corner basement.
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Our trip in 2000 was a tough one, caribou didn't migrate through the camp, for the first time in 16 consecutive years. Took a ton of effort to find these bulls. It was the beginning of the end for Central Barren Ground Caribou in the Northwest Territories. They told us you couldn't out run caribou, but after a 6 mile foot race, my 17 year old son killed his bull.
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My son's 2000 bull, mounted by a Canadian taxidermist. (I think my son does better work but I could be just a little opinionated. ;-)
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The Canadian tundra, the first week of September. If you look closely there are three caribou bulls in this picture, one dead, two further out in the image. The entire tundra was a brilliant wash of color and while the hunting was intense, the scenery was breathtaking.
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I'm so cheap.....I never travel long distances without leveraging as many different experiences as I can, out of the area I'm traveling too. In 2000, before our caribou hunt started, we parleyed a fishing trip for northern pike a few mile outside of Yellowknife, on Great Slave Lake. I couldn't find any good pictures to share. In 2001 we paid a little extra and flew another 200 miles out to the extreme eastern end of Great Slave Lake, near where the Lockhart River enters the lake, to a small, self guided fishing lodge, they provided us 16'boats and we fished for lake trout. In four days, two of us landed over 50 lakers, all between 18 and 30 pounds. It was four days of perfect conditions and I don't think it could be duplicated with all the time and money in the world.
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Sorry it took a while to muck these old photos out of my wife secret cache of boxes and family treasures, I hope they motivate someone to do whatever it takes to get out there and fulfill some of their outdoor hunting and fishing dreams.

Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous New Year.

DC
 
Thanks DC, those are some great photos and cherished memories.

At first I thought you were sharing some King Salmon fishing....but no...Lake Trout! Wow! That's amazing fishing! I wonder if it's still that good?

Eel

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Great pictures DC always wanted to go on one those Caribou hunts. My son and I are trying for an moose hunt this year in Canada. Not getting any younger and I only have a few years left to do something like this so we said what the heck let's try this year
 
mannyCA, the can was open on the bottom (or top, I don't remember now) and empty, except for the white residue. I'm thinking a military person could know exactly what it was and how they work.

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Great pictures! Im not sure how many caribou hunts Ive been on, at least 10 but you can't beat that fall color!


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eel, I think Great Slave Lake is still producing good lake trout fishing, as well as Great Bear Lake but we don't seem to hear as much about either lake as often as we used too.

We went to a Lodge at the east end of the lake, at a location called Fort Reliance, 170 air miles or 275 by boat from Yellowknife, it was once and Native American trading post, then an RCMP post, then a far north, early warning Canadian Weather Station. The name of the place is Trophy Lodge. it is owned by Wallace Finlayson

http://www.trophylodgenwt.ca/

It's different than the other lodges on the lake in that it's a lot less expensive....... like I said, I'm cheap.... because they put you in a cabin with a kitchen in it, you bring your own food and cook it yourself. They don't put a guide in your boat, or give you too much fishing information, but it's pretty easy to figure out, and even though it's been 17 years I think I could give anyone that is interested in going a kind of crash course in where to go and what methods we found worked best and which lures and baits were most productive. And where you fished and what you fished with made a big difference in what size the fish were and if you caught fish or didn't. A couple of drunken Calgary hockey players took us under there wing and taught us how to get it done, and man did it work, but we fooled them too, we didn't even have to get drunk, which they were sure was a primary ingredient to their success. They were great guysl :D

Hooking those big lake trout was wild. We trolled over a boulder reef that was 45 feet deep, and you absolutely couldn't tell if you hooked a rock or a fish. When the reel started to scream we stopped the boat and loaded up the rod, if it didn't twitch after three or four minutes of putting all your body weight into the rod, it was a rock, if it was a fish, it would eventually shake it's head and you'd feel it come up through the tight line and the rod that was bent double. We would, by pulling hard on the rod, pull the boat over top the fish and then pull straight up, in a few minutes you'd see four or five bubbles come uo the line, and you'd know, "he getting tired and ready to come up, he's letting out some air" and you'd start to get a little line back on the reel. When they would come up, and see the boat, back down they would go. After two or three runs, they would come along side the boat, where we could release them, or get a picture.

Unfortunately, the caribou hunting has been closed since the mid 2000's, so a guy can't do a caribou and a Great Slave lake trout parlay. Having said that, I'd love to go back to fish for lake trout again, if anyone would like to get together and put a trip together, count me in.

DC

Today it was Brook Trout through the ice. ;-)

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I fished great slave in 2007. What a great time. Flew to caribou camp the next day. Fishing was awesome both places. Mostly pike though.
 
DC, sounds like a real blast....the Lake Trout. 10% of the fishermen catch 90% of the fish...the right technique is key.

The Brook Trout..burrrr! I imagine the meat is nice and firm in that cold water. :)

Thanks for the link.

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Fished right at 10,000 feet today, ice 10" thick, temps in the 40s during the day, near 0 at night. As you can see, no snow, nada, zip, zero, none. Utah moisture at 5% of normal, nooooooot good!.

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DC
 
Which outfit did you hunt with tradarcher, we were with Aurora Caribou Camp, we fished northern pike for a day with Greg's son in 2000. Caught some good sized pike but I can't find my photos.

If you hunted 07 you must have been one of the last years the NWT allowed non-resident caribou hunting. I guess Quebec is done for next year too, I'm guessing they'll close it to non-residents permanently soon. Very sad, in my opinion.

DC
 
>Those are really awesome pictures. I
>would love to hunt Caribou.
>


Same here. Now that 8 have pulled the plug on employment, I have plenty of time to plan.





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We went with Barry Taylor of artic safaris. I wasn't aware of the no non res rule. That sucks. I wanted to go back. It was a blast.
 
Yep. You were cozy in Barry's metal tents. :) Can't beat grizzly proof camping. We had'em right in camp all week. Nothing like a young grizzly that hasn't learned any manners, looking over a wire fence and licking his lips. :D

We were one set of rapids on the Coppermine River south of Barry's camp on Lake Desteffany. The south end of Taylor's bordered Greg Robertson's northern boundary. Both just fishing camps now, is what I've been told.

Lots of Canadian internal politics at work on the tundra now days.

Did you buy a Polar Bear diamond for your misses tradarcher?
 
A few of you have expressed interest in lake trout fishing. This trip is much, much, much cheaper and a whole lot closer than traveling to Great Slave Lake, in the North West Territories.

canyoncross said: "DC, Post a picture of your more recent lake trout fishing trip."

I think he meant some pictures from a couple of crisp, rainy, blustery days on Utah/Wyoming's Flaming Gorge Reservoir, this past April.

A very good friend, that I met through an antelope hunt arranged right here on Monster Muley, mentioned he was going on a second lake trout fishing trip to Flaming Forge. I didn't ask him any details, I just starting whimpering, whining, and begging to go along. Reluctantly, I'm sure, he relented..... I think he was thinking I was much like one of those sick and quivering old dogs that need a home, and are advertised by those nice people on television every night, and.............. he just couldn't say no. I took advantage of his soft and tender feelings for the indigent.

Here's picture of a pretty nice one.


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This one was pretty good too, if I remember right the guide said a little under 30 pounds. A fish of a life time for a lot of us, I think.

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There are larger lakers in Flaming Gorge, guys catch them every year.

Flaming Gorge is really a very affordable lake trout fishing destination.

Truth is, I'd love to go back to GS Lake but............ I'm sure that hiring a really good guide on Flaming Gorge could get you as many and as large lake trout as opposed to going all the way to GS Lake. I think my experience at Trophy Lodge was an anomaly, not that it doesn't happen, but it is not something you could count on every year. Flaming Gorge is a very reasonable priced lake trout fishing experience. The boat and guide are a flat rate, and up to three fisherman per boat could split the cost and bring the cost down even more. Two lines in the water but rotating gets everyone equal turns on the rods.

DC
 
oh...........sorry. I forgot to include this one. :D

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Same day.

The guide was just a little giddy about this one, for some reason he asked if he could have his picture taken too. We figured, what the heck, it's your boat, your rod, your knowledge of the lake, your line on the trolling lane, your choice of lures, your tuning of the lures, and your nets, so........... go ahead, stand in there for a quick shot, then get ypur butt busy and get those lines back in the water. :D

If the other was nearly 30 lds, this one was...................more!!!!

Our highly recommended guide was Kyle Edwards. He's a great Captain with a great reputation on the lake and a great fishing vessel. Any one wanting to book a trip with Conquest Expeditions and want to share the cost, I'll love share the cost and fish with Kyle again.

DC

eel, here's another web site to check out.

http://www.conquestexpeditions.com/guides.html
 
There were more than one grizz run off with shotgun pellets in their rump out of our camp. Those grain bins made a super nice camp. I didn't buy a diamond seeing she just got a diamond ring the year before. I was 23 and lucky just to scrape enough pennies together to go on that trip. It was a bucket list trip for my dad and he was dying of cancer. Couldn't afford not to go.
 
Thank you for sharing those pics DC. The only part of this fish tale that isn't true is the part where he begged and whimpered to come.
He was invited fair and square and had it not been for him I would not be holding that fish, one of my favorite memories in outdoors of all time!
I lost another large fish that day and rather than having to relinquish my turn Deloss told me to grab the rod the next time it went off, 30 minutes later I was holding that 45 pound lake trout the fish of a lifetime. If there's a more pleasant guy to share a boat or an antelope hunt with i?d like to meet him.
 
LAST EDITED ON Jan-05-18 AT 01:45PM (MST)[p]>mannyCA, the can was open on
>the bottom (or top, I
>don't remember now) and empty,
>except for the white residue.
>I'm thinking a military person
>could know exactly what it
>was and how they work.
>

Did it look something like this?
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There's a lot of great things that happen between good men, sharing the wonders and beauties found in the woods and on the water. While we have our differences and our individual passions and we quarrel over those here on these Internet forums, in the end we are all brothers in nature and need to keep and preserve these wonders with great reverence and respect. We need to try to serve one another and give back as much and as often as we can, to keep these experiences as alive and available for the next generation as we can.

The fact that these opportunities are, one after the other, slipping away, is something we all need to fight against and do all we can to keep and protect.

Thank you, each of you, for being "keepers of the great outdoors
hunting and fishing life style".

May your dreams in the field and on a
the water come to you in 2018.

DC
 
computerguy, yes very close to that. It's been quite awhile so I can't say it was exact, but very close indeed. Do you have any information you can share? Thanks.

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>Do you have any information
>you can share? Thanks.

Sorry, I don't. But I don't blame anyone for not wanting to bring it on an aircraft.




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