WEBVTT - Saskatchewan Bear Hunting Memories 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.240 You're listening to the Sportsman's Nation, brought to you by 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.520 Go Wild. Go Wild is the fastest growing outdoor themes 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:09.960 social media app on the market. All you have to 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.600 do is go to wherever you download your apps and 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.760 download Go Wild. And for more information you can visit 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:30.520 time to go wild dot com. My name is Clay Nucleman. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.800 I'm the host of the Bear Hunting Magazine podcast. I'll 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.720 also be your host into the world of hunting the 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:42.680 icon of North American wilderness, the bear. We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation, 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.120 but will also bring you into some of the wildest 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:50.640 country on the planet Chasing Bear. Welcome to the Bear 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:55.200 Hunting Magazine Podcast. We are here at the global headquarters 0:00:55.240 --> 0:01:00.120 of Bear Hunting Magazine. Jedas right outside, probably gonna be 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:06.039 barking a little bit. It is October the twenty six October, 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.120 and I have with me in the office too of 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.160 my really good friends that have done a lot of 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.680 stuff with me over the years. I got Brent Reads 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:23.440 here sitting at about eleven o'clock, and I got Ryan 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.280 Grab sitting about one o'clock. They're sitting pretty close to 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:35.560 each other, awkwardly close, but I'm glad at six. But no, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.600 these guys. These guys traveled up. Brent traveled up from 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:44.040 central Arkansas. Ryan traveled up from western Arkansas to meet here, 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.680 and we're gonna talk about Saskatchewan. What we're gonna cover 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.920 in this podcast is the last three years Brent, Ryan, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:56.160 and I in a conglomerate of other Arkansans and a 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:01.120 Wisconsin I I by the name of Mark Cuddyback have 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.040 have traveled to Saskatchewan. Martin just the last two years, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.000 but all of us the last three years, we've traveled 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.920 the northern Saskatchewan to hunt with Bear Pro Safaris and 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:18.720 Colby Morrison. And this hunt has become something really unique 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.280 for me. I mean, I get to travel a lot 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.919 with Bear Hunting Magazine to a lot of different outfitters, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.000 and I've hunt with some of the best outfitters in 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.200 the world. I really do. The Saskatchewan hunt has become 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:38.200 so fun primarily because of the boat ride on the 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.920 first year, the sixty mile boat rode. So these are 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.680 the iconic moments that have made Bear Prosafaris what it is. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.600 The iconic boat ride, sixty mile boat ride and high 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.480 water high seas the first year and then the second 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:56.040 year seventeen, the the hunt for the color face bear, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:02.200 which became a pretty well known hunt because it's bear 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:08.400 came in touched my era Brent video that the video 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.240 I think has one point six or one point seven 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:16.120 moving views on YouTube. But that hunt was like as 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.400 far as bated bears bear hunts going the north, that 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.400 was one of the most spectacular hunts of all time. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.760 Number one, I missed a huge probably probably Boon and 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:30.480 Crockett class bear with a tread bow. We saw you're 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.480 rubbing the salt and still, and we saw we saw 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.040 bore breeding the south. We had this big color phase 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.320 bear come in and run these other bears off, and 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.160 so bear prostafaris to us is this unique, unique place. 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.720 But before we get going with that, I want to 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:51.680 I wanna hear from you guys. So Brent, Brent w Reeves, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:59.080 uh not. Brent's filmed with me for several years, written 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.720 some articles for me, done some bare recipes. But Brent, 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.760 tell us a little bit about yourself. That's a that's 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:11.360 such a dumb question. Every podcaster asked, tell me about yourself. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.000 You already, oh man. I grew up in South Arkansas 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.800 and I've been in career wise, I guess law enforcement 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:25.640 for the almost twenty eight years now, and got into 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.320 the Guide in Business, the Duck Guide in Business with 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:35.159 my brother, uh about gosh, close to thirty years ago, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:39.600 I guess, and we retired from that, and I just 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:44.919 got interested in filming, and I've been filming uh hunts, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.760 you know, all over. I've been fortunate enough to to 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.479 be taught by some really good videographers and uh and 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.680 then I've pretty well told Clay how to do everything 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.240 what Ryan didn't tell him. Yeah, that's that's right. I 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.760 kind of started him at first, he finished him up, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:12.880 so uh but I've it's just been a crazy trip, man, 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.000 as far as what that camera has allowed me to do, 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.360 in the places I've got to go and the things 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.760 I've got to see and the people that I've met 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.919 that I mean, that was cool, you know when you 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.599 talk about that Saskatchewan the last three years, the first 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:36.320 year anytime people experience a near death experience and all 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.799 of them lived through it. You know, you were brothers 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.159 for life, whether it's a combat or in a boat 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.040 on whatever lake that was Wallaston Lake that tried to 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.840 kill us in Canada. So it was I was holding 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:56.840 on too empty um empty gas cans, like thinking, when 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.680 I end up in that water, I'm gonna have my 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.360 life vest and I'm going to have this jerry can 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:08.320 as the Canadians call the lids off of them. It was, 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.960 you know, we were it was it was two boats 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.640 right whenere you were and Kobe in one boat and 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.080 always three boats. Three boats, yeah, three boats. So this 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:22.600 this was twenty first year we hunted, and so Kolby 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.440 was Kolby's camp was on the back side of this lake. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.839 It was. It was fifty fifty five. It was fifty 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.840 five miles as the crow flies and then but we 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.200 were hugging the inside bank of the lake because we 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:38.520 couldn't get out in the middle. I don't know if 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.640 you'll remember that. Colby said, there'll be it'll be a 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.680 little bit longer for boat ride today. We're gonna have 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.240 to stay close to the bank. And I was like, 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.919 we were all like, okay, it's like a thirty minute 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.520 thirty minute boat ride. Yeah, no, man. I kept looking 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:59.200 at my watch and in my crucifix and they just 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.360 kept was. It was long, man, it was the longest 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.400 boat route ever raining it was. It wasn't pouring rain, 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.760 but it was I was trying to fish, but we 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.760 were running just a little too fat. He was trolling. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.640 He had his five and diamonds spoon up the side, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.800 trying to catch a pike. It was so so that 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.200 that year was iconic. That year I killed the bear 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.000 on the first day. It was a nice bear. It 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.880 was a poping young bear, but it was not It 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.520 was not the bear that you go to Saskatchewan to 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.640 take him. It was a good one, right, and so 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.760 you fill me on that, you feel me there. So 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.120 we were done after one day and then Ryan hunted 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.680 and you killed the bear. On the fourth day. It 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.640 was the Yeah, we had one more day to hunt, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.160 and Kobe took us to the new place. It was raining, 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.280 put a tarp over her head. I was kind of 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.480 thinking this wasn't gonna work. It sounded like popcorn popping 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.440 above her head, hitting rain, hitting that tar. But we 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.240 wasn't there what thirty minutes and board and sale come 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.720 in and yeah, we talked about it for a little bit, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.040 but we end up taking the board and but anyway, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.600 it was a good hunt. We had a good time. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:18.480 The fishing was phenomenal. You know, the camp was exceptional 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.280 the food, and it was I wish we could go 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.880 back to that exact location. We didn't realize how spoiled 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.640 how well we had it that year. Hey, before we 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.480 get too far off track, this was an introduction, So 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.920 Brent Rufe was introducing himself. So you were talking about 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.559 you talked about being a duckt guide, being in law enforcement. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.920 You talked, then you transitioned into you've you've followed people 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.640 around and filmed and hunted all over the place for 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:47.760 the last couple of years. Yeah, well I got the 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.079 last couple of last ten years. Yeah, about probably fifteen years. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.040 I met a guy out and they didn't even make 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.240 cameras fifteen years. Well, that's where VCR take. I was 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.960 drawn on the OKA, on the side of a kve 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:05.000 That's where I started. But I was filming a or 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.280 hosting a film crew at my guide's service, my brother's 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.959 and I guide service, and became friends with one of 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.640 the videographers there, and that's that's how I got started. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.880 So it was by accident. But your history with me 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.360 is that probably six seven years ago with Arkansas Black 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.080 Bear Association, which at the time I was running, you 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.000 contacted me and we were. We just talked about filming 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.480 bear here in Arkansas coming up to me. I sent 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.920 you an email, I think, and then I called you 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.200 and uh, I was like, I told you what I 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.520 was doing. That I was, you know, kind of a 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.440 freelance videographer and I'd like to come film you. And 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.480 you were like, okay, whatever, and pretty much that was it. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.360 You hung up. You kind of blew me off there 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.200 for that. I didn't you got to hear from you. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.640 And then the next year, next year, you called and said, hey, man, 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:00.240 come on here and let's do some filming. And I've 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.160 taken you under my wing. And I can't count how 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.560 many times I've saved you life and I've I've been 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:15.680 a big blessing to you. Collect you know that's true. Well, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:22.040 very good, So Ryan Grab, right now, let me let 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.720 me give let me give a little history of Ryan Grab, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.560 Ryan Grab. When I have a question about bear hunting 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:35.040 in Arkansas, I call Ryan Grab, Ryan Grab, and I 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.319 will if this could be disproven, I would love I 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.480 would love for it to be but I believe this would. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.800 I believe this is true that nobody has killed more 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.800 bear in terms of weight in Arkansas than Ryan Grab. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:54.200 And I'm talking about collective weight, Like, however many bears 0:10:54.200 --> 0:11:00.959 you've killed? Bush? I mean, Ryan kills a big bear 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.760 almost every year. When I say big, like, I know 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.599 you you'd probably shoot a three it. I think a 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.920 few years ago you shot up three or something. But 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.480 usually you're killing barrel over four hundred. The bear you 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:17.280 killed this year away three, and then a couple of 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.960 years ago you killed the four forty. You've killed the 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.880 five hundred and four pounder. I mean Ryan, for we've 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.199 been able to bait bears in Arkansas since two thousand 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.320 and one, and basically since then, Ryan's killed the bear 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:33.240 almost every year, and um and so anyway, so I 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.839 consider Ryan Grab a bear hunting expert. And then Ryan 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:41.120 has also gone with me to Canada man the first 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:46.360 when I acquired bear Hunting magazine. I got the magazine 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.520 in July and all kind of happened really quick, and 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:56.640 I contacted this outfitter up in Ontario and he was like, yeah, 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.240 come and hunt. I called Ryan and said you want 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.760 to go it on Terry. He was like yep. So 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.560 we jumped in the truck, drove to Ontario and uh. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.320 It took about three days hunting within fifty yards of 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.440 gravel roads and uh we killed two bears and the 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.640 one that I killed was I think the biggest bear 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.120 they had ever seen in the camp in their life. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.520 I mean, these guys were shocked when we showed him 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.240 to the bear. I mean because Ryan and I we 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.080 were we were like, man, this is not good. I 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.120 mean we were Ryan could hear them Jason Aldeane playing 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:32.120 in the wind, and I could sing along what was 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.200 on the radio, and they were close. So it was no, 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:39.720 it was no uh wilderness hunt and uh, but we 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.960 we were. It was a super fun hunt. Anyway, we 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.400 ended up both killing bears and and good ones. So 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.400 that was our first like real outing. And ever since then, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.559 almost every time of hunted in Canada, maybe not every 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.840 year since then, you've gone with me to Canada, I 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.439 think almost. I didn't go with the year y'ad went 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.120 to Alberta. Wish I wish I had went on that 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.760 trip because you all had a big time success on 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.400 that go around. Oh yeah, that was you're right. I 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.800 think every one of you guys killed a couple of 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.880 pairs of piece, didn't you. Yeah that was since fourteen. Yeah, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.120 you know, we killed six three of us killed six pairs. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.600 So tell us about yourself, Ron, I've just I've grown 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.200 up in western Arkansas and uh, kind of cutting my 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:31.480 teeth just bow hunting growing up Fort Chaffee. You know 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.840 wildlife manage. Don't you tell them where you hunt? Man? Yeah, 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.160 it's not a secret anymore, but you kill all the 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.360 big deer out of there. Yeah. But anyway, just on 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.840 my own small business right now. But I'm fortunate to 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.520 get out and hunt quite a bit. And I met 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.880 Clay back and I guess the water around two thousand 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:55.280 and ten you kicked off the and Saw Black Bear 0:13:55.320 --> 0:14:00.640 Association and fortunate to get to know Clay. He's pretty 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.199 good and he invited me on several of these trips 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:07.520 and we've gotten to be pretty good friends over the years. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:13.160 And I would that far. But yeah, but anyway, all 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:17.280 these trips we go on, we've had a blast with 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.000 the guys we've got to meet. And I can to 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.840 aggravate Brent when he's there a lot of times. But 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.640 also here hunting in Arkansas for bears and in Oklahoma. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.560 You know, we share some secrets and tips and yeah, 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.440 it seems like I'm always helping Clay get his animals. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.760 Out of the woods. But let me say something about Ryan. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.800 If Ryan does something, he is gonna be really good 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:49.720 at it. If he hand fishes for catfish, he and 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.960 his career are gonna catch the biggest catfish if he's 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.280 if he's deer hunting, he's gonna kill a big deer. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.080 If he's bear hunting, he's gonna kill a big bear. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.720 Rises all around woodsman and I have a time of 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.880 kind of respect for him, and so it's, uh, it's 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:10.480 been fun to fun to travel. Yeah, well, okay, so 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.160 we got we got these guys introduced and uh, and 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.600 Ryan's been on a couple of episodes of Bare Horizons. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.880 Brent has been on episodes of Bare Horizons. So Bare Horizons, 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.080 for those of you who don't know, is our is 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.080 our bear hunting show that's on Carbon TV. It's also 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.000 it's mainly on YouTube at this point. But this is 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.320 our fifth year Bare Horizons. So these guys have been 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.600 on and off through there for a couple of years. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:38.120 But so now to the topic at hand is Saskatchewan. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.760 And let me let me start off by to somebody 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.760 that doesn't know much about bear honey, which us being 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.880 from the south ten years ago I didn't know a 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.200 thing about spring bear him. It never really entered my 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.920 mind other than I knew that I wanted to go. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.480 I knew that it would be fun. It was like, hey, 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.160 it'd be fun one day to travel up north in 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.920 the spring of all times and going a big game hunt. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.360 I mean that was like far off and I just 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.760 envisioned like maybe one day I'd go one time and 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.920 kill a bear and just be you know, I have 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.960 this great time. Well, now this is something that I'm 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.360 doing every year. And to be able to hunt a 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.680 big game animal in the spring with your bow in 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.520 May and June, it's something that you don't get to do. 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.760 There's a few sheep that you can hunt, but how 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.560 many of us can afford going to sheep hunt in 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.080 in today's culture, with where guys are becoming more and 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:39.320 more passionate about year round hunting. I mean used to 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.880 when my dad, who was as hard acore hunter as 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.680 there was on the planet, Man, he didn't start thinking 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.840 about deer hunting and tell about September the one I mean, 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.760 you just didn't. You just didn't do it. That's when 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.880 you started shooting your bow. And then as I got 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.400 a little bit older. They started shooting three D archery 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.440 tournaments in the nineties and so it kind of became 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.080 a little bit more of a year round thing. But 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.880 now hunt and it's like a year round passion for 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.600 all of us. We're thinking about it. We're on social 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.600 media where YadA YadA ya, Well that's where to me, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:13.320 spring bear hunting plays in a major play for the 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.840 hunters and southern hunters even particularly to be able to 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.560 escape the heat of the South and go up north. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.240 To me, isn't it is something that oh absolutely, it 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.520 would be hard to replace. It is so stink and 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:29.560 cool to leave Arkansas in late June, because that's when 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:33.800 we go to Saskatchewan late June and travel thirty hours, 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.679 whether by plane or whether we drive. Brent and I 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.680 have driven the last two years. We'll talk about that. 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.120 But get up there and it's like, I mean, it's 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.920 cool and you're building the fire. You know, everybody's sitting 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.280 around the fire. We're headed in. You know, it's June, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.520 late June, as hot as almost as hot as it's 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:55.200 going to get in Arkansas, and we're packing our winter 0:17:55.400 --> 0:18:00.600 closed to go hunting and Saskatchewan. Your little pink union 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.200 suit that you bring every year. You look, really, I've 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:07.320 got it on now just in case we were going 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:12.000 to go up there today. So to me, that's one 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.159 back to the point here, fellas. That's one of the 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.600 coolest things about about that is being able to just 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.400 leave here and go there. The last two years Brent 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.400 and I have driven it's thirty hours up to northern 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.960 Saskatchewan and we usually break up the trip well, stop 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:34.080 in North Dakota and fight and fight, Uh what are 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.520 we doing? You know what? I'll tell you what when 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.639 I this is like really neither here nor there, but 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.680 on the way back, Okay, on the way there, when 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.760 you when you get into Canada and southern Canada is 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.479 like these big crop fields and flat and it's like, 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.880 to me, the color of the sky kind of changes 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.320 and like you feel like you're there the next like 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.199 the next ten hours, it's like your home. On the 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.600 way back home. When I feel like I'm home is 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.760 when I get to Kansas City and then you start 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.600 driving and you start seeing all these like uh, what 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.840 am I trying to say? All these like Ozarkian restaurants, 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:14.680 Like I just feel like I'm home. We stopped the 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.360 little gas station on the way back when we stopped 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:22.080 at that little the little like cracker barrel looking like, man, 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.680 we're home road trip, thirty hour road trip. Yeah, when 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.240 you can get uh chest your chicken, that's it. That's it. 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:33.240 And the in the gas station your home sweet tea 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.960 a little don't get me started about sweet tea. Did 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.960 is an anomaly if you can find it anywhere overseas. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:48.479 So spring bear hunting. Spring bear hunting is truly unique. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:54.040 So when we go up to northern Canada and Saskatchewan, 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.040 the cool thing about what Colby is doing is that 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.879 his hunters boat based hunts. So he's on these big 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.199 water systems in in the in the lakes up in Canada. 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.359 This wouldn't be it's kind of unique because these lakes 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:11.119 and rivers kind of like flood. Well, the river's flowing 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.720 to the lakes and then just on the backside, the 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.640 river flows right out of the lake. So you never 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.600 really know if you're in a lake or a river. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.280 I mean, even though they're named typically, but these big 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.600 water systems and some of these lakes are gonna be huge, 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.920 I mean like fifty sixty miles across. In the case 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.040 of where we hunted a few years before. Yeah, when 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.399 you you're on a lake and you can't see the 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.919 bank on either side. That was what was foreign to me, 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.359 because it's it's nothing, and you said we're gonna be 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.760 hunting lakes and rivers system. It's nothing like what I 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.480 had pictured in my mind? Was it you? Now? Not 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.159 seeing another boat, It's like you're the first people to 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.480 ever be on that water. There's there's nobody, you know, 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.440 it's like a different planet up there. You actually feel alone. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.679 I mean, if something happens, you're thinking, how am I 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.919 going to God, He's gonna come find me now. So 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.719 on the road trip up there, we actually we drive 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:14.280 north until the pavement ends. I guess around Missing Nippi, 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.520 the little community Miss Nippi or is it Larrange where 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:22.159 the pavement ends in La Range rons the Skatchewan You 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:26.200 can look it up. And then from there there's it's 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:28.800 two hundred and fifty miles or dirt roads to get 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.520 where we turn off to go to Colby's camp, and 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:36.479 from from his camp we access boats and travel up 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.040 and down waterways as far as twenty two miles in 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:42.040 any direction. The first year that we hunted there, Brent 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:44.879 and I got in a boat and we would travel 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:48.120 twenty two miles to our bait side, which took about 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.320 an hour. You know, he's running I don't remember what 0:21:51.320 --> 0:22:00.280 what horse power motors. Yeah, and so you can you know, 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.960 we're traveling about twenty miles and hours. It's not a 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:08.679 bass boat traveling seventy anyway longboat rides. But so, but 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:11.040 but what he's able to do by getting that far 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:14.920 north is is he's able to access unhunted bears. I mean, 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.200 I deal with a lot of Canadian outfitters through Bare 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:23.200 Honey magazine, and what Canada has that we don't have 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:28.880 is truly massive, massive amounts of true wilderness. And by 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:33.719 true wilderness, I mean places where there are non vehicular, 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.600 no roads that a vehicle can drive down, I mean 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:39.960 there there were places up there that we were walking 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.280 and scouting that I would you know, you get the 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.399 impression you may be the only person that's made a 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:52.760 track in there totally untapped resources. Yeah, yeah, yeah, wrote 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.360 you know, there's only a couple of roads that I mean, 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:59.560 the Gold dirt road that we were on was the 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:03.760 only north south road for like sixty or seventy miles, 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.520 like to the east to the west. So I mean this, 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:12.240 you're completely remote when he takes us to these Listen 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:17.760 to this. The gym Sessions told me that in the 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.359 United States, the furthest that you can get from a 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:26.720 road and be sitting in wilderness and as the crow flies. 0:23:27.119 --> 0:23:31.240 The closest road like the furthest you can get away 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:33.879 from the road is thirty six miles and it's in 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:37.120 uh it's near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and Wyoming. 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:43.800 And uh So if that's thirty six miles, okay. In Canada, 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:50.639 places like that are everywhere. I mean of the population 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:52.720 Canada lives within a dred miles of the U. S. Border. 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:58.520 I've heard that statistic before. And then Canada goes forever north. 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:00.959 I mean, it's a huge count tree and there's just 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:04.000 nobody that lives up there. Yeah, well you think also, 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:07.359 you know, not only roads. I think back over the 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:09.679 last three years and I've been keeping up with it, man, 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:12.640 I paid attention to it. You don't see a commercial 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:17.240 jet flow over. If you see an airplane there, aircraft 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:18.919 of any kind of it's got floats on it and 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:23.440 it's taking somebody fishing. And that was rare. Hey, when 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:26.520 I was in Alaska talking about wilderness when I was 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:30.600 in Alaska. I've been to Alaska twice, south central Alaska. 0:24:31.400 --> 0:24:34.520 You'll be you'll have flown into this river system in 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:38.440 Alaska boat based hunt there as well, and there is 0:24:38.560 --> 0:24:42.440 hardly a moment when you cannot hear a bushplane flying overhead. 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:44.879