Well, that's enough for me

[saylean]

Ya, I was referring to the type you have in the back yard. Bear sign seems to peak around end of Aug/mid sept, for me. Last weekend of Sept has been my golden time.

Bobcat, depends where your at I guess. All the ones round me are still green...found fresh bear sign today, looked like black berries, but the hucks and thimbles were all I found in the area.

[DoubleJ]

I'll post pics in a minute.  BRB

[JCKILLSHOT]

Black berries are still green where I hunt also just cause one area has berries doesn't mean the whole state does.  Keep at it at you'll see one sooner or later and if you don't you'll be ready for elk season.

[DoubleJ]

Blackberries like I pick for jam.  It is a bush.



Those berries are still green everywhere I've been



The vine berries you talke about.  We call them tangle weed because it tangles around your ankles and trips you.  Not a bush but spreads out at ankle height and acts almost like a ground cover



Those berries are ripe all around here, including my back yard and the Green Diamond land that was sprayed that is 2 blocks from my house

[bobcat]

Yeah, the Himalayans and the Evergreens (invasive species) don't get ripe until middle to late August.

I'm talking about the "real" blackberries. (native)

[saylean]

Ya, I dont know, bears seem easier for me to find when the bush black berries get in....maybe they are easier to locate...they stay put a bit longer...

I'd just give it a week or two, cause by then, you wont be able to stand it anyway!

Thanks for the pics, good examples. Dont give up....find a hunting buddy and carpool....oh gawd, I sound like a greenie...soon, I will say buy a Volt car.

[DoubleJ]

If they had a volt pickup, I'd be in line to get one.  I have been screaming for an electric truck for years

[billythekidrock]

Ya, I was referring to the type you have in the back yard. Bear sign seems to peak around end of Aug/mid sept, for me. Last weekend of Sept has been my golden time.

Bobcat, depends where your at I guess. All the ones round me are still green...found fresh bear sign today, looked like black berries, but the hucks and thimbles were all I found in the area.

Are you talking Himalayans or the trailing black berries. Most of the areas I hunt on the westside have a gap between the two ripening. Usually the little trailing berries are ripe from early July to early August and then the larger himalayans ripen in late August or September.

I have had the best "blackberry" luck with the little trailing berries. By the time the other blackberries are ripe, so are the huck, blue and cascara.  Then in October the evergreen huck ripen up.

[RadSav]

If they had a volt pickup, I'd be in line to get one.  I have been screaming for an electric truck for years

You might get 5 miles on a charge then   Instead of the 20-25 you get now on a Volt.  What a piece of stollen tax payer money crap!  Better to buy an old toilet seat 90 scooter.  Or a Geo.  Buddy of mine hunts in an old Honda Coupe 65 mpg.  about the size of my backpack, but it gets him where he needs to be to start walking.

[saylean]

Ya, I was referring to the type you have in the back yard. Bear sign seems to peak around end of Aug/mid sept, for me. Last weekend of Sept has been my golden time.

Bobcat, depends where your at I guess. All the ones round me are still green...found fresh bear sign today, looked like black berries, but the hucks and thimbles were all I found in the area.

Are you talking Himalayans or the trailing black berries. Most of the areas I hunt on the westside have a gap between the two ripening. Usually the little trailing berries are ripe from early July to early August and then the larger himalayans ripen in late August or September.

I have had the best "blackberry" luck with the little trailing berries. By the time the other blackberries are ripe, so are the huck, blue and cascara.  Then in October the evergreen huck ripen up.

Hey Billy,
I guess they would be the Himalayan types, never called them anything other than black berry bushes...the big bushy pain in the arse ones that take over peoples property. The small ground running vine ones I never paid much attention to till bout 3 years ago when I called in a blonde bear out of the woods that were covered in those things. Half the time I wouldnt even bother hunting for bear till the Himalayans (as ya'll call them) would be ripe.

[DoubleJ]

If they had a volt pickup, I'd be in line to get one.  I have been screaming for an electric truck for years

You might get 5 miles on a charge then   Instead of the 20-25 you get now on a Volt.  What a piece of stollen tax payer money crap!  Better to buy an old toilet seat 90 scooter.  Or a Geo.  Buddy of mine hunts in an old Honda Coupe 65 mpg.  about the size of my backpack, but it gets him where he needs to be to start walking.

Yea, they'd have to really make a strong battery for a battery pickup

[DoubleJ]

Ya, I was referring to the type you have in the back yard. Bear sign seems to peak around end of Aug/mid sept, for me. Last weekend of Sept has been my golden time.

Bobcat, depends where your at I guess. All the ones round me are still green...found fresh bear sign today, looked like black berries, but the hucks and thimbles were all I found in the area.

Are you talking Himalayans or the trailing black berries. Most of the areas I hunt on the westside have a gap between the two ripening. Usually the little trailing berries are ripe from early July to early August and then the larger himalayans ripen in late August or September.

I have had the best "blackberry" luck with the little trailing berries. By the time the other blackberries are ripe, so are the huck, blue and cascara.  Then in October the evergreen huck ripen up.

Hey Billy,
I guess they would be the Himalayan types, never called them anything other than black berry bushes...the big bushy pain in the arse ones that take over peoples property. The small ground running vine ones I never paid much attention to till bout 3 years ago when I called in a blonde bear out of the woods that were covered in those things. Half the time I wouldnt even bother hunting for bear till the Himalayans (as ya'll call them) would be ripe.

We just called them blackberry bushes too.  And like I said, we called the others tangle weed.  Is that stuff worth hunting or just wait for the Hymalayan?

[AKBowman]

The blackberries are ripe now and have been since the first week of July. I found bear crap full of blackberry seeds about 4 weeks ago.

Times two. I took some pics of ripe berries in my area about 7 weeks ago. I couldnt beleive it, LOTS of bear sign. A member on here killed one not far from there Friday.

[bobcat]

I also got a trail cam picture of the bears that have been eating the blackberries:

[hornhunter1987]

when that black huckle berry stuff ripens up in a couple few more weeks is when i see the most sign in the younger cuts. i think there in the timber  mostly now eating the salal berries. those are ripe and huge around shelton. so is the red huck too though. my bear was  eating the red huckle berrie bushes.