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Our group has 2 spring griz draws.Hunted the other side of the highway 7-07 ect.Any B.C guys hunted this area..Lots of mountains and slides but never been there myself..

7STW;
Sorry that I've nothing to share about the area, but all the best luck to your group on the grizz hunt.

I hope to see photos of defunct bruins when you all return.'

Have a good week and stay safe Mike.

Regards,
Dwayne

Guess the snowpack will dictate how the hunting is.Myself I'll have a black bear tag but really have no intenions of shooting any bear.More or less going just to get out and ride my quad in some new country.

Hoping just to feed my eyes and help with their bears.Thats always a 50/50 bet.

All the best Dwayne.

Mike

Let me try this again, I'll be across the Mcgregor from you in 7-17. Seen a few grizz right along the river on both sides. Here's a picture of one off a video clip.

Hey Mike,there should be no lack of bears.I've seen plenty in 7-16,and a friend hunting 7-17 was over run with them(over 30 griz spotted in one week!)That was in the fall when the salmon were in the Torpy,but the slides in your area should hold plenty of bears if you timing is right! Good luck,I'll be hunting 2 hours from the house this spring! Monashee

Thanks guys.
Were about 2.5 hrs away from were they want to hunt Murray.Not too bad.Gonna camp for a week or so I believe.

Looks like the bears around the homestead....fellow I work with has invited me to join him in 7-18 for a grizz hunt....luck dog got an leh....only about 20 miles up the road from our place.

CS, you live in Upper Fraser? Had a friend who worked at the mill there before they closed it down.

Not far from there.....we have hoards of bears around the property all the time. They sure left a mess at that old mill site.....should clean it up if they are not going to use it.

Always thought it would be a great place to film another Deliverance movie, I drive through there quite often to my hunting area.

You see the mess those pigs left at Otter Lake?

No, i dont go up there, hunting camps?

Yes, I presume so. With ropes and tarps left on the meat poles it was most likely hunting camp. I hadn't been out that way in years so we did some road hunting [exploring]....some real nice grizz country up that way too!!!

I've seen a couple of very nice griz on the slides at the top of the Captain road (left just before Otter Lake).Took a nice bull at that little pond where the road flattens out near the top,there was a griz on the gutpile next morning. Monashee

Saw some caribou up at that exact spot last fall....and a wolverine down by the lake.....I might just mix things up a bit this fall and do some serious hunting up that-a-way.

CS, do you know anything about this memorial in 7-17? found it on a side road back in the bush abit last fall.

No idea.....looks like someone made quite an effort on it though.

I haven't seen that before either.

Amazing what we find out there huh?

That's mighty nice country in there but since they split 7-16 into A,B and C zones it's much tougher to draw the C area.We saw quite a few wolves in there,never could get a shot.Lots of bulls and lots of griz. Monashee

I cut my teeth hunting with a buddy up in 7-7. His parents have land out in Upper Fraser with a huge swamp in the back yard. Beautiful area. It's sure grown since I first started going there. I haven't been hunting out that way in more than a few years though.

The last time I was out that way you had two vehicles in front of you and three behind you trying to pass. Even ran into one vehicle that would stop in the middle of the road to let the passenger out to have a look in the bush, but wouldn't let anyone go by. He'd cut you off and try to run you into the ditch when you'd attempt to pass. He'd finger you and just be a dick.

I haven't spent much time in 7-18 and haven't been out to the torpy in over a decade. I did see a sow grizzly with three PUFFY PUFFY cubs. She wouldn't get off the road. They'd run over the crest of the hill then start walking down the road again. I'd slowly crest the hill because I didn't want to pressure them and there they were. I stopped and waited for a bit and they eventually disappeared. Good luck on your trip.