This is very good advice from Darkside55. You must be with an outfitter - this is a serious law that the fish cops will enforce is they see you sleeping in your truck, even at an outfitter's lot. Check with all the lodegs and you may get a room in thelast minute- Iknow Mirgae had 2 open roomsin 2005 due to no-shows.

The fines are real big andlike inthe states they will own all your stuff.

Hello to all who are following this thread, I found it 3 days ago and have been spending all my free time catching up, I have read all 87 pages and found a lot of info. It has also made me very interested in a winter caribou hunt. I live in Qc. but it would still take me about 36 hours to get up there.
question; Can a resident of Qc. hunt the same areas as a non resident? If not how do I go about hunting up there?? Thanks,Rodney.

darksides and bouman,
thanks for the heads up about sleeping in the vehicles. i hope it doesn't come to that. that's actually what i really appreciated about donat's, last year we did stay a couple of extra nights, but they had what they called the bunkhouses available. for anyone that's been there you know it's just trailers full of bunks to sleep in, but that's all we needed, we had our coleman stove to cook outside on. the guys at donat's did everything they could to make us comfortable and i know that one guide in particular gave up his bunk and slept on floor space so that a guy could stay over to wait for the herd. mirage definately looked cozy, but i'd stay with donat anytime too. hopeyfully, some of the herd will get there before we leave and we won't even have to worry about it!

Not only can you hunt 22B but you need to put in for the lottery on 22A - the fish cops told me in 2004 the hit rate was about 35% of those applying and they have a weighted system like we do in NH for moose - you have a better change each time you enter and miss it.

An it gets better, hunt fall and winter and get to areas 23 and 24 and you as a resident can get 8 animals - 2 in fall and 6 in winter.

Almost as good as deer hunting in NY.....

Anyone check out the satellite map that came out today....looks good for us early hunters. I guess anything can happen and they could decide to turn around but things sure look better than they did last year this time...as far as the map goes. From what I see, looks like at least two collars within 75 kilometers of the road and headed in the right direction.

Looks real good for the first week hunters - last year all we did was drive around for 3 days and shot ptarmigan; never saw a caribou track and went all the way to both the end of LA-1 road as well as beyond the dam at Fontanges on the way to Caniapiscau.

I think week one will have some animals uptop - but you will need to get above LA1 - Caniapiscau is too far east for this herd, but you may see some Georges River animals. This migration is similar to 2004, which was early, and one major difference is the temp. Today the entire region is 30F+ which is 30 degrees warmer than 2004 for Nov 7th. There was also much more snow. LaGrande has less than 1 foot now with much bare ground. As long as these animals see food above 55, they will stay in the grazing ponds between Lac Clarie and Lac Bienville. Snow will be the factor that pushes them below LA1 and it is comming the question is when. I still see the heard massing in the55-56 area now, once the carring capacity becomes an issuethen the will move on to fresh browse from LA1 down below the Taiga Road.LA1 is also abig holding ground for these animals - lots of food and cover along theeast side. Ihave seen it takes some cold snow to getthese guysmoving.

Right now it looks good for the 15th. I hope it stays that way and they are around for awhile. I can't go till 23rd of Dec.

Isn't LA1 right near Camp Kisk...? It's good to see them moving in the right direction! We're leaving in 24 days!! That should give them plenty of time to get to where we need them to be! Every morning I set at my desk and check this forum then stare at the maps while drinking my coffee from a Caribou Coffee mug. It's going to be a long 24 days! Especially if those green squares keep getting closer:-)

BKMSTR, you sound like me !! I have the migration mapand this site both booked marked. I check this site just about every day this time of the year, looking for updates from the guys. LOLI got to get me one of those caribou coffee mugs !!! It seems that the weather is still a little warm up north, I think some cold weather will bring them down.

It's down to twenty days and counting ... but us Michiganders we do have a nice distraction coming up: Nov 15, opening day for deer season.