Manitoba Spring bear Yahoo!!!

imageimageFrench fri grease for grease pads, oats and grease in barrels, fresh scent in the air, as an attractant, and a pile of fresh meat scraps to spread the word that the Diner is open at Big Grass. Every year we dump gallons of oil and pounds of meat for the Bears offering a good reason for those huge Bruins to frequent the bait sights giving our hunters a opportunity of a good Manitoba Trophy.

Spring Black Bear baiting

imageimageimageBear baiting done. Wow snow, water, mud, dust, sun, clouds, rain, wind  all in one day. You never know what kinda day you might hav in the woods.  But great part of spring bear baiting was the frost was still on the ground in the spruce swamps which made the Job much easier.  A little sign showed but not much, with temps freezing most nights the bears are not really moving and looking for food.

Portia Marsh Boardwalk

imageimageimageTime out for a little site seeing. Portia Marsh is a unique waterfowl staging area for ducks geese and many different water birds. We took time to View info plaques, and just enjoy the view Mnaitoba has to offer.

Russell Manitoba the place to be!

IMG_5864IMG_5860IMG_5861IMG_5880Can you believe all these photos? What would we do without our Iphones? 50-60 mph winds blows the flag straight out, then driving along and within 1 mile we went from not snow to 4 inches and in 10 miles 12 inches,, Connies Drive in it the place to be March 31 in gusting winds the customers are lined up for burgers, chicken, fries, and soft ice cream!!  and the last one a cyclest in Manitoba is a Chilly ride with temps dip to 10-25F during the day. then gusting winds but he had the WIND ON  HIS BACK not a bad plan when you have no cab and only peddles for steam.

Remember Big Grass Outfitters

a4a5460b6d.jpegd843b14fd7.jpegRandy Ferguson, John, Randy and Ron Randall 5 years in a row till college tuitions came in the way.  We had great fun, scouting, whacking and stacking, snow geese, canadian, limits of ducks. We offer quality hunts, we work hard and goose hunting in Manitoba is a dream for all.

Critters behind the scenes

STC_0038STC_0064SUNP0024STC_0036IMG_5838Wile we are not looking outdoors never stops, White tailed deer, the doe with her 2 fawn we watched all summer, Mrs Fox at the bird feeder at Christmas and now farther out back, the yote who is always calling to his mate, then a little surprise last Friday. Bear print in the snow. we have a den in the neighbours scrub pile along fence line, and I guess we had a couple of very warm days and he thought oh Spring is HERE! but now we have temps below 0F high winds some more snow , plus they are threatening blizzard conditions for the next 3 days.  Mother nature must know what she is doing but it seemed the beginning of March we would be sewing the garden by first of April.. Yep April fools.. We continue to use cameras to see what we cannot see and it is really amazing.