Hunting on Vancpuver Island ?

I like that, I may just take to calling it Vancpuver Island. Up on the northern end (north of Campbell River) there is tons of access, many logging roads, lots of ground to cover. Great place to hunt though many of the deer are small and finding the big ones can be some work. Good luck.
 
Gummie boots, rain gear and a newfie fishing hat.
My memories as a young lad hunting with dad, frack it can
rain over there.
Take some fire wood with you too if you ferry over there.
Mind you, we were hunting when there was snow on the ground.
 
Im from the north island , i would recomend black bear hunting. If you have dogs i highly recomend cougar hunting. Unless you are some expert Blacktail hunter, your chances of shooting a mature buck in the mountains here is is almost zero. The Vancouver Island blacktail book starts at 100 inches ... Hitting 100 inches on the island is a monumental acomplishment for someone with no experience on the island. I shot one this year that made B.C book at 115 2/8 Net. If you compare that to a mule deer on the mainland of B.C where book is 190 ... it works out percentage wise as a 210-215 inch mule deer. 115 is a jaw dropper here. Just a little perspective of how small are deer are here. I got about 60 pounds of deboned meat off that buck, and hard to hunt ... they are like ghosts.

If you even see a buck here during the rutt you likely wouldnt get a shot off, unless you had experience blacktail hunting. These deer love thick under brush and timber, Hate open area's and are brutaly skittish... they are there one second and gone the next. Guys that live here there whole life can go all season with out seeing a buck while hunting in the mountains. Last year was particularaly bad for lots of guys. If you did get a buck it would be likely be an 80 pound spike buck or 2 point a little heavier with about 30 inches of bone.

Vancouver Island Blacktail hunting is an island thing. Not to many people traveling here to hunt these bucks
 
Thanks for info.I am moving to the island in July and look forward to hunting there. Probably be classified non res for 2013.
 
I grew up there and my first deer (1970) was a 4x5 blacktail buck shot in a North-Island semi alpine meadow.
 
blargon said:
Nothing wrong with bear meat...
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Have you ever smelled a Vancouver Island bear that has been stuffing itself with salmon and/or rotting salmon carcasses? My friend vomitted during the field dressing process. On the other hand, a nice interior bear that has been living off blue berries....that is a different story!
 
I shot my first Vancouver Island bear adjacent to a river in 1976. The intestines were full of salal berries. They don't take on a fish smell or flavour unless they've been eating fish for a month.
 
1899 said:
Have you ever smelled a Vancouver Island bear that has been stuffing itself with salmon and/or rotting salmon carcasses? My friend vomitted during the field dressing process. On the other hand, a nice interior bear that has been living off blue berries....that is a different story!
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I wonder if it is a myth that salmon eating black bear taste awful. I have taken black bears of different seasons at different river bank or berry roads,all bears taste great.
it is the ways to cook meat make difference.
 
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1899 said:
Have you ever smelled a Vancouver Island bear that has been stuffing itself with salmon and/or rotting salmon carcasses? My friend vomitted during the field dressing process. On the other hand, a nice interior bear that has been living off blue berries....that is a different story!
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I wholeheartedly agree.
 
1899 said:
Have you ever smelled a Vancouver Island bear that has been stuffing itself with salmon and/or rotting salmon carcasses? My friend vomitted during the field dressing process. On the other hand, a nice interior bear that has been living off blue berries....that is a different story!
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Nasty Mother *&%$er's !!!
 
The south island is going to be terrible this fall thanks to TW putting locks on ALL the active and inactive logging road gates. They have already started the process. I was up this weekend at the SHawnigan Lake end of Kapur main and they have gone as far as to put big concrete blocks in behind the gates and dug 4' deep holes on both ends. They are saying its because of vandals shooting out windows on machines and the issue of liability on these roads.
 
Sallovesbeer said:
They are saying its because of vandals shooting out windows on machines and the issue of liability on these roads.
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If there is an issue of liability on the logging roads, then they should lock the roads at north island as well. Obvious it is not.

The real problem is that some shameful "citizens" throw junk to the logging roads. I can not believe fridges, tvs are sent to the field. They are free to dispose at city recycle center! Those idiots are cheap, low and ignorant. But they are many!!
 
elker said:
I wonder if it is a myth that salmon eating black bear taste awful. I have taken black bears of different seasons at different river bank or berry roads,all bears taste great.
it is the ways to cook meat make difference.
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When you gag and puke from the rotting stank....well, it makes it pretty darn tough to even imagine cooking it. Like I said, it stank, my father and I almost puked and our hunting partner did. Literally.

I have nothing against bear meat, but I am not planning on shooting one anywhere near a river when the salmon are running.
 
elker said:
If there is an issue of liability on the logging roads, then they should lock the roads at north island as well. Obvious it is not.

The real problem is that some shameful "citizens" throw junk to the logging roads. I can not believe fridges, tvs are sent to the field. They are free to dispose at city recycle center! Those idiots are cheap, low and ignorant. But they are many!!
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TW is working on gating everything. Weather its vandals, littering or liability reasons. Its seems dip sh*ts have given them one reason or another to gate every area.
 
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