I've hunted Northern BC a handful of times, and guided years ago around Mackenzie, BC. I'd take the 2024 dates without question personally if you want good rut action.
I've hunted the first 10 days of October on a fly in hunt in the far reaches of Northern BC. It was great timing and we...
I hunted in Kinaskin lake area as a resident last year. Feel free to shoot me a message if you'd like. Have hunted in Dustin's area as well but not for sheep (caribou)
Really interested to see how the dog work progresses. Interesting seeing how its worked for zebra muscle inspection on boats, and coming from a world of seeing dogs work in the firearm/narcotics detection its really cool thinking about the possibilities with Movi and other diseases.
Other thing that looking at the graph does is makes a resident feel pretty good about success I've had and opportunities at the prices I've paid for the hunts I've done!!!
And some more good info from WSF from the Thinhorn summit......
This one seems to give a bit better picture of NR hunters for thinhorn and success, without lumping all sheep tags purchased into the numbers from what I can tell.
If using Jex' info on the graph (not exact numbers but can guess...
Heres an interesting quote I found while doing some digging from a Fort Nelson paper in regards to thinhorn harvest.
"In 2019, before COVID restrictions, 1,303 B.C. residents hunted 10,888 days for both stone sheep and their white cousins, the Dall, and harvested 137 thinhorn rams for a...
Lower would be my guess on rockies, but I personally think there are a handful of outfitters that have a lot higher success and then some with extremely low success vs an overall 'average'. I'd have to do some digging to see exact numbers of rocky/cali hunters but its not insignificant in the...
Ya not a perfect science as there are probably 30-40 (maybe more) non resident bighorn hunters each year through the Rockies and Calis. I don’t have all that data in front of me but that number would change things once it was pinned down.
Amazing time of year to see the parks. The Icefields parkway that time of year is stunning.
For fishing, I'd concentrate on finding something outside of the parks (Canmore/Calgary) on the Bow river or a smaller creek depending on what you'd like to try. There is some fishing in the park but...