STEVE BIRKENMAIER
New member
I met a guy afew months ago at our flytyers club whois a Alaska lodge owner . We got to talking about androunumous fish flys and speyrods . He has the lodge in Alaska but hails from Beniji ,Mn. and he also an avid waterfowler both up in Alaska and back home in Mn. he also has permission to hunt like 40 sq miles up in Manitoba all grain farms and potholes pure paridise well there are no lodge fees atached just motel costs food and gas . Ihave done lots of the logistics so far and the trip from my house to Mn. would be 1400 miles and 22 hours as per mapquest so basicly like 2 days time . The trip up to Manitoba from Beniji is like 6 hours so thats 3 days travel so if I take 8 vacation days with the 2 weekends it should cover the trip that would leave me with like 6 hunting days and 6 travel days . Idont mind driving as long as I have a reliabel vehicel so I guess I would rent a van or an suv no boat just field hunting and walk in pothole hunting that should make the traveling alot quicker without the boat . MY concerns are the following ;#1ammo is it true that you can only bring 3 boxes of sheels into Canada . If this istrue can you send a case up to youre accomidations via ups ?#2Dogs how do you bring a dog into canada and what logistics aareinvolved wit thisand also how are the motels with dogs ?Dates what are the primo dates to be up there to shoot everything divers and field hunting I would say to beat the snow no later then Oct 15th ?I have not comitted to this trip yet but it's always been my dream to go up to the top of the migration and the prarie pothole region I have a few things to figure out but I would need some more guys I always am hunting alone but a trip like this would call for more guys to help with the driving and the expense . Any input will be gladly apreciated thanks .