Some details. We hunted with Ron and Jeannine Dare of Bear Track Outfitters. They are about 2.5 hours North of Winnipeg Manitoba. This hunt has a Sunday arrival and hunting Monday through Friday, departing on Saturday morning. I called Ron before booking and made arrangements to arrive a little early and hunt Sunday night. I technically would not hunt until Hunter filled his tag, as I would be videoing his hunt. There were 3 main goals for this trip, besides the obvious one of having fun and spending time with my son.
1) Test the Ironwill heads
2) Shoot two bears
3) Get them both on video.
We had a great time and should have completed all 3 goals. I made an error that sent that out the window though.
Bear Track has a wounding policy in place, as do most canadian outfitters. If you draw blood and don't recover your animal, your tag is notched. With the first few days of rain, we would be especially cautious. Bears are notorious for not bleeding well. Lots of fat to plug up those broadhead holes.
We got to camp late Saturday night. We couldn't check in until Sunday morning but we were prepared to sleep in the truck. After talking to Ron and Jeannine we took the truck around the lake to one of the causeways, even though it was cloudy there were some carp in shallow right off the road. Hunter laughed and thought it was going to be easy, they were close......awhile later he finally believed what I had told him. I've shot 10's of thousands of pounds of carp in my life. It's easily my favorite hobby behind bowhunting. After he had missed a half dozen I gave him the video camera and told him to watch and learn
and then I started letting the muzzy tips eat. He thought it was cooler than heck. Cloudy and around 9 pm it was getting dark and the carp were headed back to deeper water. We decided to head back to camp and get the truck ready for sleep.
Once ready we pulled out a laptop and watched Step Brothers......always good for a bunch of laughs.