Left Mirage Dec. 4th. Toughest hunt in ten years. Probably my last winter hunt. We took four animals for five hunters. We went way back in north of Transtaiga Road at K350 about a mile from 22A. We got this information from a guide at Mirage the night we got in. We weren't the only ones there. It looked like a parking lot. Hunted hard for four days and over those days saw 15 animals come out of that area. It was not easy hunting and other guys were cutting you off all the time. I'm dissapointed in the new management at Mirage. Price increases in services like doubling snowmobile rental and guide service from last year. If you were staying at Mirage they gave a 20% discount on fuel but it was fifty cents a liter more than last year. Their bookings were down and I think the idea was to make up as much as they could from those who were there. The atmosphere is not as friendly as it was before the new management and they have gotten rid of almost everyone who worked there before. The guy in the snowmobile shop tries to skin you by coming up with damage that he says you did and wants you to pay for it. He tried that with us two years in a row. He's a little weasle. We never had that trouble when Paul ran the snowmobile shop at Mirage before he went up to Kisk. All in all it was a tough hunt, the outfitters have no control over the migration but when the hunting is that bad they should give you options. Mirage did that inI beleive 05 or 06 when it was bad. That was under the old management. Mirage guides were reasonably successful but their measure of success is when they put in shooting distance of a calf. I say Mirage has dropped considerably on the rating scale since Luc left and this new operation took over. I've been going to Mirage for ten years but if I do another winter hunt I will check out Kisk.