Newfoundland Big Game License - Who Got Lucky?

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The results of the Newfoundland Big Game License Draw was released today? Who got lucky? :D

I managed to pick up a Bull (Moose) Only License for Area 34 (Bay de Verde):dancingbanana:It is a tough area to be drawn for because it is so popular, but now I can simply hop on the ATV and in two minutes be Moose Hunting! Woo-hoooooo!:dancingbanana:Best of all, my good buddy got his license for the same area! We'll be able to hunt together once again! The last time we had a license for this area, the same thing happened. Same area, same individual Bull license for each of us.:)

Should make for a fun Fall, getting our brothers and even the old skippers in on the act. Looking forward to those crisp Newfoundland Fall days, walking the bogs and barrens and having the absolutely necessary boil-ups - with fresh home-made bread, dripping with molasses, smoked caplein roasting on the open fire, while buttered salt cod wrapped in tinfoil steams away and when done will almost melt in your mouth to recharge the batteries for another go after Mr. Moose. For a Newfoundlander, the grub and woods tea, bough brinkles (spruce/fir needles) and all, along with the chance to spend time with friends and family is just as important as the actual hunting itself!:D

We've also got Black Bear Licenses for Area 28 (Black River) to fill, but the Caribou License for Area 64 (Middle Ridge) didn't happen. Guess with the license reductions and not being high enough in the pool, the brother was out of luck this year. :( Sucks to be him!:D;)

Glad I got the moose license close to home this year in any event. With the cost of gas and everything else gone to hell, you never know if that Fall hunting trip away is going to happen.:( Keeping my fingers crossed though!

So, who else got lucky? What did you get? Moose or Caribou? What area?:D
 
I got lucky!!!!!!!!!!!

Got A bull permit for Area 5 , in my back yard , going to try and beat the bull I got in 2007 , see pic' s on page 53 in the photo forum , got a big job ahead of me but really looking forward to the chalenge!!!!!!!!!1
 
Only went into the pool this year too move up, but there will be a few trips to area 1 and 40 (with buddies). On a side note I almost gone one last night, smacked him with the mirror as I went by.
 
chinook said:
Only went into the pool this year too move up, but there will be a few trips to area 1 and 40 (with buddies). On a side note I almost gone one last night, smacked him with the mirror as I went by.
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Gotta' love those homegrown "speedbumps!" Too bad we're not allowed to keep what we kill like they do with deer on the mainland!:D
 
Congrats dere young Penney!!:D

You be careful of old lady featherbed you goin in over those barrens...
She walked right throuigh squires bus one foggy night you know....:D

Where ya gonna go?

When I used to be home, I'd trout Island Pond, then out to Clarkes and then down to Southern Pond. It was guaranteed to be on a hill and see moose either on the bog between Island pond and clifty pond, or up the mash (mash, too funny)....yes up the mash from Noel's funeral home, right on in.

I'm gonna be home for a week in June for a conference in St John's and am hoping to get one day in trouting,... come hell or high water I know I will.

I've never seen moose in on the line all the often, but then again that's more your stompin ground. Saw a cpouple big boys in by Milley's pond once, ...

Another time, before the path was beaten like a hiway, me and Jason Sellars and Dad went into Dr's pond. Walked from Backrock (Blackrock) pond.

I saw at least 150 caribou in there once...

Ahh the days of youth...

Friday night at the Bide A While and Saturday morning in the woods,...

Now some fellers I knows, who had a taste for the southern comfort and rollin' trackers, well they were awful dangerous with a .22;):D

Ahh the days of home....
 
X-man said:
For a Newfoundlander, the grub and woods tea, bough brinkles (spruce/fir needles) and all, along with the chance to spend time with friends and family is just as important as the actual hunting itself!:D
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I pretty much understood all of what you mentioned, except the part about the "bough brinkles".

Do tell. :p

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SuperCub said:
Do you add that with your tea or instead? How much do you use?


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To the tea.

It's accidental,..expected,..and welcomed...:)

Back home, or at least my area, the fire is quickly made with a few gathered boughs (blasty is best) a few sticks and whatever else might be handy, say a bit of moss or lichen ... I've never known many people in all my years, that actually would cut wood for the fire,(if it were a long weekend or end of the day maybe, but not for a qyuick boil up)... maybe limb a few boughs but not cut wood. (unless the boil up was happening while you were actually cutting wood, which is a different boil up altogether in regard to those which occur during trouting and hunting:D)

The kettle goes on quick, and the needles from the boughs are popping and cracking everywhere, ..a good many go in your cup and good many in the kettle..:) Some people will indeed add them, but I find it an unneccesarry step as my kettle is usually full of them:)

In regards to the boil up,...

In all my years of hunting and trouting and the hundereds of boil ups, I find that many in my area carry an axe over saw in the woods. Most carry hatchet size axes, but it would not be out of place at all, to see Howard Hudson coming up over the hill with an ox head in tote:D

The food,... well I can almost guarantee you will find at least one if not all of; salt cod, capelin, kippers, mollases bread, the rest could be anything... I know that in the winter ice fishing, that's when the god awful fruit cakes would get eaten. One day I was ice fishing and when we opened our sacks, among the 15 of us, 8 or 10 had brought about 5 lbs of fruit cake!

X man, is an area that is is representative of a good time in the woods, as any on the island. He'll no doubt be up to his nuts in bog, hunting in the rain and fog, sun and wind... Might be 2 degrees celsius, could be 22.

I can't wait for the pics!
 
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We used to go up around St Shotts with the setters,..St Brides and Branch too...
The Hawke hills out to the trepassy hiway was always good,...

The last few years I was home, the birds were quite scarce..
Especially on the Avalon. Saw a few coveys one day up the Cape Shore and that area seemed promising, though there was quite a bit of poaching happening there at the time..

Cappahayden used to be pretty good.
 
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Supercub,

Sealhunter covered the issue of "bough brinkles" pretty well. :) You'd be amazed at how fast a big "yaffle" (armload) of "blasty" (old, dried tree boughs from fir/spruce trees) boughs will boil a woods kettle. In the process a few of the "brinkles" or needles ends up in the water. Adds a little zest to the mix! Incidentally, Spruce Tea, made from spruce needles is high in Vitamin C and in a survival situation will keep you from getting Scurvy if ever snowed in over winter.

Haven't had a chance to wet a line yet this year. Hoping to in a few days. Just too much other stuff on the go right now. Look out come the Fall though!

I've always had the best luck hunting the Western Bay Line area. Usually less hunters and there are a couple of key choke points that are easy to cover. That's where we tagged out for two animals last Fall. If that doesn't pan out, I'm sure we'll be spending some time over Clifty pond way. Helped a couple of guys get theirs out over that way last Fall. Seeing a lot more guys out from town, etc...getting almost too crowded for my taste. The old man would like to get it quick, but I don't mind taking my time as we're not talking about driving out to Central or anything. Should be fun no matter what happens!:)
 
X-man said:
Brad,
I thought you'd be a lock to get a license for Portland Creek again. Looking for a different area or no luck this time 'round?
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Just applied to advance. Pool 1 next year! Still undecided on where to go. Portland Creek is like shopping at the meat market, but the drive is a killer.
 
CV32 said:
Just applied to advance. Pool 1 next year! Still undecided on where to go. Portland Creek is like shopping at the meat market, but the drive is a killer.
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Ain't that the truth! When you factor in the gas, you'd be better off going to the butcher and buying a side of beef, but then, that isn't the point is it?:D I'm hoping we'll still have a caribou to hunt after I tag this moose, but I think the days of getting an individual caribou license in pool 4 & 5 may be long gone inside a year or two...

At least there is no shortage of moose, but I think I'll probably opt to travel for my next license. Having to wait 4 years between licenses just to hunt my home area is getting a bit much, even though my family and buddies have spaced it out pretty well so that one of us has a license each year at least...

Next trip, might look at making it a multi-hunt out in Central or maybe the Northern Peninsula and go after moose or caribou and bear; and take along the trapping supplies as well and hopefully pick up a few otter, fox and mink and nail a few yotes in the bargain. (Before any jumps to the wrong conclusion, I am a licensed trapper);)
 
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