Hunt Lake Manitoba Narrows

Imagine now, an interruption, a beat out of the tune that breaks the rythm, alerting the pond dwellers that something ,out of the ordinary is amiss.  The shadow of a kingfisher bird flitting across the surface causes the frog to stop breathing for a moment.  The beat changes at Lake Manitoba Narrows , signaling each creature to cease activity and activities to a full stop and halt.  In turn the pond and lake become fully still.  No predator has a chance of entering undetected as long as the entire pond is on full alert.

As with the pond, so is it with the home of the whitetail.  A successful “still hunter” must know the regular rhthym , tune into it, move with it and thus adapt to it.  It is not like having a union job.  The buck may be half a mile away, as the still hunter enters the woods, but it is tuned to the surroundings.  When the squirrel at the edge , of the forest. detects the hunter or hunters and changes its very rhthym and melody, the ripple spreads to other creatures , eventually reaching the prey - the buck.

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There is a natural rhythm in the forest,  an ebb and flow of energy that every wild creature and some humans - mostly hunters - are attuned to,  Imagine a pond on a still day.  It is dead calm in your mind’s eye.  Is it not.  But look closer at that pond.  That frog on the surface is breathing , rippling the waters in tiny rhythmic wavelots.  Slow and steady, and then slower yet, is the pace of the successful slow hunter.   Beneath the water, the stickleback that seems to be hanging motionless is not immobile.  Then there is the turtle scrounging on the bottom of the pond , the water strider dating about and the tiger salamander slithering through the mud.  Together these natural motions create a rhythm, a slow predictable symphony, that comforts all the pond dwellers, reassuring them that all is well in their world.

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Still hunting also means  knowing when to stop and when to move , sensing when to call and when to listen.  It means learning how to read all manner of sign, how to react to changing weather  and how to adapt to varying habitat.  It invovles all the hunting skills and spiritual relationship with the wild world.   Most importantly  still hunting is a total experience , an art worth taking and taking time to develop.

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If you are fishing for sand bass and hybrids you can find them early and late on the points and spoons and Rat-L-Traps will be very good.

Hey if your coming to Lake Lake Manitoba and need a guide then give me a call and I will try my best to help you catch that life time trophy bass or that basket full of crappie and if you want to have some fun let me take you out for the sand bass and Hybrids they are a lot of fast catching, hard pulling fun. Which ever you prefer I will show you a great time.

Jadran Transcona

Experience Lake Manitoba fishing huting guide & outfitter

Today in 2008 , hunters are just about as able to hone their natural hunting senses as their aboriginal or metis ancestors.  And a small but growing number have begun to return to their aboriginal ancestory and ancestors - whether they be of aboriginal origin or metis.  Still hunting has returned as one of the most basic of hunting skills.   These still hunters have discovered that the investment of time afield pays more than rich rewards and dividends in the intensity and overall enjoyment of the hunting experience and experiences.  Working only with guile and wind , the hunter pits skill and experience against the most adaptable animal in the forest.  Still hunting is an absorbing drama, more than intensely riveting from beginning to end.

By definition, still hunting means slowly and silently slipping through the forest , tuned and tuning to its very rhythms.  In the process - the still -hunter becomes part of nature , instead of an intruder feeling where to go and always letting instinct and instincts be the very guide and teacher.  It is the ultimate test of the woodsman in the whitetail deer’s home ground.

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Still - hunting , the art of silent stalking, is an old an art as the relationship between hunter and whitetail deer , even as far back as the wooly mammoth .    In this case its all about stalking that elusive white tail deer.  And even though it continues to be both effective and productive, still hunting’s prevalence seems to be declining over the years. the victim of hunter’s busy lives , too little time to spend in the field as well the proponderance of high tech gadgetry.

Hunter and deer, however are still as well matched as they were millennium ago.  The whitetail has developed finely tuned survival skills , adapting almost anywhere that man lives in North America.  More whitetail deer are on the continent today than at any time in history -recent or not, even though more humans are hunting than ever before attesting to the deer’s highly developed abilities to survive.

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