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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5575" data-source="post: 271886" data-attributes="member: 410">What a great subject!I've spent allot of my free time in life chasing both. And having always worked a job offering me 1/2 the year off has given me ample time.Born and raised in ND, but since I was a teenager I've traveled all over the country west of the Missouri river and western Canada chasing critters and walleyes..gas is cheap!  Allot of times sleeping in my old truck topper, car,tent or friends I've made along the ways homes. Put many a deboned midwestern/canadian whitetail into coolers in the trunk of my car, rack riding beside me in the front seat for the ride home.I hunt public lands 90% of the time, places you could draw tags for back in the day every year now take up to 10 years. That sucks.. The internet has been the demise of many a good unit/area.Majority of my 7 day trips still to this day cost $500-1,000 bucks for everything, tags included round trip. And for that price I can usually put me in a spot that a 150+ whitetail or 10 lb walleye is a very real possibility. A 10lb walleye these days is a very doable, heck even if you dont want to travel. Put 5-7 days in on the big mo right now and chances are you'd have your whopper. Especially if you can hook up with someone that knows the system well and it wouldn't cost you much at all. Now if you want to get a couple buddies together to split gas and lodging you could head up to Tobin or Winnipeg for around $500 pretty easy and odds are you'd  catch your 10 lber, probably several in 5 days. Been on a couple trips where we've landed 20+ fish over 10 lbs and some teeners, good times!Making friends in places like Wyoming, Montana, Iowa, Kansas,Alberta,Saskatchewan and Manitoba has been priceless.  To be able to hunt these places for the price of the tag, gas and food has offered me so many great opportunities and memories. And every so often a beautiful trophy as well. Bottom line is you just have to take the time to get out and do it. I've never had a problem to take on extra work/jobs to pay for these trips. Helped build a bunk house up in Alberta in exchange for one of the best bear hunts I've ever been on.Word of advise to you younger folks, if your not building preference points in other states you need to start now! "my boys are pretty fortunate there, been putting them in for awesome elk and deer units since they were like 10"Good luck to you all and when given a chance take a young person hunting or fishing whenever you can.:;:thumbsup</blockquote>

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