Kapowsin - Spring 2013

[Cundifc]

I have been up there several times and haven't seen anything. Hopefully the last couple weeks of the season pay off

[hunterrcc]

I saw five bears up there and I didn't even get checked in at the gate until 4pm today.  Only one big headed boar, one small young bear and a good sized mommy bear with two tiny babies all were seen from the truck on the main line fyi...  Saw big bear a few hours before dark!  Good luck! 

[Thehowler]

I've seen only 1 bear off the main line in 10 years of going up there.

[liljozie495]

I saw five bears up there and I didn't even get checked in at the gate until 4pm today.  Only one big headed boar, one small young bear and a good sized mommy bear with two tiny babies all were seen from the truck on the main line fyi...  Saw big bear a few hours before dark!  Good luck!

Friggen saweeeeetttt! Go gettem!!! 

[hunterrcc]

I've seen only 1 bear off the main line in 10 years of going up there.

I must have just been lucky or the fact that I didn't have a tag! 

[Bob Williams1]

Is this site working yet?

[Bob Williams1]

Spent another 6 plus hours up at Kapowsin yesterday. Got up there about 1 and quickly came across a tree that was literally ripped apart..By the coloring of the tree i think i just missed it.. Put a slow creep on through the trail that ran out the back side of where I was at but didn't locate or see OR hear the bear. I put some miles on the boots walking off roads and spurs in hopes of hearing a bear tearin apart a stump or see one grubbin on some grass or hell using the road system for a means of travel..No such luck.. I creeped for about 2 hours and then headed up to some cuts i have been watching from time to time and i tell ya it looks everything the part,  but i'll be damned if i can find a bruin anywhere in those thousands of acres.
Spent the final 2 hours sitting on a ridge line that allowed me to watch  literally hundreds of acres with the bino's...From 5 p.m. to 7p.m. ....I saw A rabbit.....laff..(so Brutal)

During some of my creepin around earlier in the day i did manage to see a blacktail deer and a nice big bull in velvet..He'll be a stud in another few months.

Hopefully everything works this time!

Got 2 maybe 3 days left in me for Kapowsin- If i don't bag something between now and the end it won't be for lack of tryin..I think i have been in there 11 times and have not seen one bear...CRAZY 
Great country in there though and i WOULD consider gettin the year round permit.. That Elk draw would be a lottery

Guess i will figure out pictures later...Not sure what the issue is

[Bob Williams1]

anybody else having trouble uploading photo's ?
I have resized them to be about 38k a piece and it still won't work..By the time they are small enough it'll be a "thumbnail"

[Pygmy]

  saw this guy and his  4x5 buddy last weekend.   Ran up after work last night with my wife and daughter to quickly check a trail cam.   Had a 120lb black bear run in front of the truck at 9:15pm on our way out.   The girls were very excited to see that.

[Pygmy]

Bob I used Tapatalk mobile app to post the bull elk pic above.   Click image for the picture to show up in the post.   Hopefully that will work for you.

[funkster]

Bob, if I may, your wasting your time in the cuts. Find a south to SW facing slope with 20 year old timbers preferably at or just under the snow line.  Old spurs around these areas work good at first and last light for bears. Remember, bears have excelent hearing, park your rig far enough away not to spook them eating the grass in the ditches. Any other time, you will need to be deep into the timbers. I suggested in an earlier post to save your time for the last week or so, this is the time you need to be hitting it hard. Don't give up bro, you got this!

[Pygmy]

If it isn't tough enough for those of us hunting through the reprod all over Kapowsin there are some who are making it harder.   Hiked through camp 5 flats yesterday and found good bear sign and track.  But some of the scat had weird seeds along with the grass.   Some even looked like the bears were eating dog food. 

Today there was fresh scat on the side road full of oats and smelled like a molasses cookie.   Too bad they can't control where the Bears poop.   Didn't take too long to backtrack the prints and find someone's bait site.  Good thing I carry my Moultries in my pack.

[taylorb]

We got one on Sunday (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,127040.0.html)...  We also saw a lot of other sign - much more than I have been seeing.  Someone will also get some pic's of us on there trail cam .

[Pygmy]

Taylorb, is that a bear rub?

[Bob Williams1]

Wow... That's a proud pile..Make your pants fit better kinda stuff..

Are you saying possibly one of the reason's i can't seem to smash on a bruin in Kapowsin is because they may be in a "FOOD INDUCED" coma brought on by some brothers in the hunting communities.. Whew i was beginning to think i just really sucked as a hunter!!
That really sucks for a couple reason's

A.) Its against the law
B.) Its unethical
C.) People have been putting in a lot of time the old fashioned way
D.) Most importantly sometimes i get hungry up there and they didn't tell me where the SNACK SHACK is stashed..

That's very frustrating and i'm sure whoever is doing it will lend you to believe they're just putting out camera's (and bait) for scouting purposes in the fall... EVEN WHEN THEY IS A HUNT IN PROGRESS!!!

Hate to say it- That IS a camera i would probably steal and if you wanted it back you could claim it at the wardens station