Anyone still huntn bear beside JB an myself?

[Boar]

Just curious, bear huntingtalk kinda died down, an now I'm sad, but ice fishing is right around the corner Boar

[HooknHorns]

its died down quite a bit. Not that many bear photos this year either.

[Boar]

Yep one of those years it sseems, acorns droped an my sites went dry an havent had anything in since.

[jerkbait]

Have not heard of to many bears taken up here in my area either. I am going to keep going until about mid week next week, I think. Time to get projects around the house done. I want to be able to ice fish early ice this year instead of watching the nieghbors heading out. Only 5 weekends left until Firearms deer season.

[matchset]

spot and stalk

[Boar]

I hear ya JB, got my sites set on early ice to, gotta get thing buttoned up before that. Boar

[lichen fox]

We've got 10 baits hitting but they are rather sporatic...we usually have about half of them re-hit each time we check but there are only two of them that have any consitancy...we've set up and hunted twice only to find out the next time we checked that we picked the wrong baits...bears were in at shootable times on some of the other baits when we were set up elsewhere!! But we got 17 days left, so there's plenty of time...Hopefully we'll make the right call this weekend!

[Boar]

Good luck fox,keep us posted. So ya got pick one an then go to the other, a little reverse phsycology, Ha. Boar

[Matt Breuer]

I didn't sit a single day this year. I had buddies on our baits two weekends and they were dry weekends. Most other times we've had baits getting smoked, and 2 are still getting hit as of this afternoon. I'll be up this weekend, but probably won't hunt. 1 for 6 this year, not very darn good!

[Odonata]

Hit each day, bear is nocturnal. Getting tired of smelling like fryer oil!

[Boar]

Yea, I'm very fortunate in no qouta to have baged one, seema to be a tough year, cant wait to see the harvest rates. How noctunal Odonata? Maybe a good bacon burn can turn him, maybe cutting back on the feed so he hungers up anthen do a burn, just an Idea. So far my beaver hide an castors have done zilch, gonna go in tomorrow an check an if nothing, Im gonna do heavy burn with honey, I'm gonna sit wth a camp stove an quart of honey, burn it till it pplumes with white sticky smoke for hour or so. An see if that catches a passerby. Boar

[jerkbait]

Maybe that is how I will end my season. Sit and do a burn. Didn't check last night. Going to check again tonight. Good luck this weekend all! Weather is looking good atleast.

[bigdaddy1968]

had friend shoot one tonight 200 lb sow . shot it coming to my cornfield. ne morrison county

[Odonata]

Reset today, burn and sit the site tomorrow. Crunch time! Boar, bear has been in between 11 pm and 3 am. Did a smokin honey burn earlier this week, nada.

Sitting another site tomorrow. Still humping buckets.

[bogwalker]

Now is the time to catch the wanderers. You can't hold them without massive amounts of food, especially meat. The big guys are hungry and they need protein. They wander around building up all the fat they can before they hit the sack for the Winter.

[Boar]

Yea two weeks to go, an really starting to feel the pull of bow hunting for deer, but what if... such a simple question, is'nt it. boar

[Nathansdad]

Hang in there guys. The best bear I took was the last week of the season. The quailiy of the cape was far superior to any bear I have seen in the early part of the season. It is much tougher as the season goes on but the rewards are worth it.

[Mopad]

My cousin and I are still hunting. I passed on three bears earlier and now those 3 are looking pretty big now! I hunted Fri, Sat, and Sun night this weekend and didn't see a thing! The bears are really not hanging around anymore! No rhyme or reason when they come in. We are now seeing less bears. BUT we have now seen the biggest bear yet this week on a trail camera. This is my first year hunting bear and its becoming frustrating!

[jerkbait]

I hear ya there BD. No rhyme ir reason makes it frustrating.

[CANOPY SAM]

I wonder if they're figuring out what's waiting for them at bait stations during daylight hours? What NathansDad said +1. They're also bigger!

[bogwalker]

Big bear hunting is a marathon. Not many stick it out, but to those who succeed and take a trophy it is well worth it.