2026 Hunting Season
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Blkram
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- Nov 25, 2013
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Spent the day hunting lynx yesterday. This is their mating season, so was hoping to see some movement during the day with the recent new moon.
We were in some great areas I haven't had a chance to get back to in a few years. Including the area where I got my last lynx several years ago while hunting with Dr Mike. Didn't see any, but most of the area had been burned in the bad fires a couple of years ago. Did see a few moose and sign that they are returning to the area, but not much snowshoe or lynx sign at all, except a few places that didn't burn. Also found one area with fresh caribou sign, but did not see the herd. Didn't see any hares until just at dark, in one area. Funny as we saw quite a few during the fall hunting season, over a much wider area.
Other areas that had received a lot of snow in December have melted hard in our recent chinook, and what roads were previously cleared, if not really active, had not been sanded, and the hills were mostly sheets of ice I was not willing to drive on without tire chains for my pickup. This kept me out of some really great areas. (also made for seeing less sign, as only one area had received any new snow over the past few days, and then, it was just a skiff.)
Still, was a beautiful, mostly sunny day to be out and about, with temps in the -10 to -22 C range.
Hope to get out again tomorrow or Saturday, into some other areas. We were supposed to get a little snow this weekend (an inch or two), but see that is now out of the forecast. The chinook is now over, and while we will be seeing temps down to about -17, it is not our usually colder temperature for January.
We were in some great areas I haven't had a chance to get back to in a few years. Including the area where I got my last lynx several years ago while hunting with Dr Mike. Didn't see any, but most of the area had been burned in the bad fires a couple of years ago. Did see a few moose and sign that they are returning to the area, but not much snowshoe or lynx sign at all, except a few places that didn't burn. Also found one area with fresh caribou sign, but did not see the herd. Didn't see any hares until just at dark, in one area. Funny as we saw quite a few during the fall hunting season, over a much wider area.
Other areas that had received a lot of snow in December have melted hard in our recent chinook, and what roads were previously cleared, if not really active, had not been sanded, and the hills were mostly sheets of ice I was not willing to drive on without tire chains for my pickup. This kept me out of some really great areas. (also made for seeing less sign, as only one area had received any new snow over the past few days, and then, it was just a skiff.)
Still, was a beautiful, mostly sunny day to be out and about, with temps in the -10 to -22 C range.
Hope to get out again tomorrow or Saturday, into some other areas. We were supposed to get a little snow this weekend (an inch or two), but see that is now out of the forecast. The chinook is now over, and while we will be seeing temps down to about -17, it is not our usually colder temperature for January.
