Author Topic: The new changes for 2006-2007 (Read 636 times)

Blink · « **on:** April 11, 2006, 02:54:25 PM »

Heres the new changes for the new hunting regs. In case you havent seen them yet.

http://alaskahunt.blogspot.com/

AKCAT · « **Reply #1 on:** April 15, 2006, 07:23:00 PM »

Well I might have missed something but all I saw was a bill on new pricing for non-residents. Heard about that fight yesterday from a friend who spends his whole life on that web-site. I think that's all they do there is fight, used to check it out but man it has turned more into a coup of cackling hens then an informative link.

Blink · « **Reply #2 on:** April 15, 2006, 07:53:40 PM »

AKCAT, I knew I should have cut and pasted the changes, but I didnt and they changed the site. Alot of changes for bear hunting and proxy hunting.

Basically as of July 1 you can sell griz hides (untanned) from certain units in 20E plus 5 blackies out of the mcgrath area. a few others but I cant remember.

Proxy changed where now you will have to "destroy" the antlers (ie: cut the skull plate in half or cut the anterls off the plate) and to get a proxy hunt you have to be drawn for a tier 2 hunt to begin with in some areas (nelchina bou for 1). no more just giving away the tagto anybody.

AKCAT · « **Reply #3 on:** April 16, 2006, 07:18:21 AM »

Blink,
I heard that the game board made a recommendation regarding the sell of Grizz hides but never thought it would get approved.
Do you know if they changed the regs regarding baiting down there??
I guarantee you that if the fish and game would allow guys to bait for Grizz with Grizz bait instead of baiting like you were going after Blacks it would be alot more succesful management tool.

Sourdough · « **Reply #4 on:** April 16, 2006, 08:47:42 AM »

They are not done yet! They tabled two of my proposals and are going to revisit them in their May meeting In Anchorage. I have sent them a letter requesting them to approve proposal #11 to reclassify Black Bears statewide as furbearers. That way we will be able to sell the fur. This is for statewide not just for the intensive management areas. Also proposal #26 to lenghten the seasons on Wolf and Grizzly Bear to coincide with the calving of Moose and Caribou in the intensive management areas. This will enable us to float the rivers in the calving season and look for the bears that are praying on the baby moose. During the calving season moose cows go th the rivers to calve. Bears have learned how to go to the rivers and locate these cows and follow them to their calves. Bears and wolves are also doing the same with the caribou, they are going to the calving grounds and locating the herds and taking the calves. This will give us the ability to go after Wolves and Grizzlies during this vulnerable period for the calves.

Written comments will be accepted till the 5th of May. Anyone wanting to comment should write to:

Atten: BOG Comments
Alaska Dept of Fish and Game
Boards Support Section
PO Box 25526
Juneau, AK 99802-5526
FAX: 907-465-6094

Your comments to the board would be appreciated. Roggie L Hunter
alias Sourdough

Sourdough · « **Reply #5 on:** April 16, 2006, 08:55:29 AM »

So far the only baiting for Grizzly is in unit 20-E on the Taylor highway, an Intensive management area. Last year they had very poor success. I think I remember hearing only one or two Grizzlies were taken over bait. That area is so far away from Fairbanks that people are not baiting for Black Bears there and therefore the Grizzlies are not used to finding bait stations. As for selling hides, the claws must be attatched with all Black Bear hides. I don't remember if Grizzlies were approved for sell or not. I'll try and find the e-mail I got explaining the word from the board and let you know. Seems like I may have posted that earlier in this forum.

See my post "We can sell bear hides" There is an article from the paper there and also some of the comments I had after the Advisory commitee meeting.

AKCAT · « **Reply #6 on:** April 16, 2006, 10:15:46 AM »

Yea I think you are right sourdough, I heard of only two Grizzlies being taken down there.
My point is, if you are going to bait for Grizz, dog food and grease isn't the way I would go about it. And I was told that is how they were regulating it down there.
I have had alot of Grizz activity around my bear baits but they haven't bothered my baits much but I don't use meats; grease, dog food, beaver as a stink bait and some annise oil and the grizzlies poke around a little and move on.
Also with the Grizzlies roaming like they do I don't you could get a Grizzly to hang around a bait like you can a black.
If they want to thin out the heard, shoot them from the air or rescend the 24 hour waiting period in that management area.

I like prop #26, I know around here between Donnely Creek and shaw creek on the Delta we loose alot of calves through out the first part of the summer to bears and wolves, our problem is that a big portion of that stretch is closed to hunting as it is USARAK land.

Blink · « **Reply #7 on:** April 16, 2006, 12:23:48 PM »

Thanks sourdough.

Talking with fins and feathers here in town, they dont know what the hell is really going on with selling hides. The paperwork is something they cant figure out to regulate so people cant sell a hide and say it was from 20E. Kinda like the few any ram areas and somebody shoots a 3/4 curl and they say it was from a legal area.

I bear hunt out of Tok every year with some friends (tok locals). They got the permit for griz baiting. I guess we are gonna try it.