bears w/ racing stripes

[lokidog]

From Wikipedia:

The Kermode bear (Ursus americanus kermodei, pron. kerr-MO-dee), also known as a "spirit bear" (particularly to the Native tribes of British Columbia), is a subspecies of the American Black Bear living in the central and north coast of British Columbia, Canada.[1] It is noted for about 1/10 of their population having white or cream-coloured coats. This colour morph is due to recessive alleles common in the population. They are not albinos[1] and not any more related to polar bears or the "blonde" brown bears of Alaska's "ABC Islands" than other members of their species.

Nice bear pics!

[deaner]

thanks for the correction on the spirit bear thing.  ive heard about the all white ones, and which islands theyre on, i sail by those islands all the time, and am always on the lookout.  seen some black ones on the beach but no white bears yet.  as for the infestation, yeah i agree.  have more pics than that too, some are on video mode, dont know how to post those.  got 16 bears in one month off of just 4 cameras.  also had two cams jacked up by bears, one of them got chewed up first day it was up, so no pics at all on that one.  and i know this sounds odd, but i think i had a bear stalking me yesterday as i was exploring a creek in a draw looking for a place to set up another cam.  i walked way down this draw following the creek, and after i got down really low i cut out to the side to get to the nearest skid road, walked back up quite a ways, and cut back in to my path to go further up, and when i did that there was a steaming fresh pile of bear crap exactly on my backtrail, it was not there when i was hiking down.  bear had to have been following me.  it laid a few piles along my path in the direction i was going

[crazysccrmd]

That's a lot of bears. Need to find myself a nice spot like that.

[deaner]

i sure want the population down.  if it wasnt for the fact that its also where i hunt deer and elk id be happy to tell everybody where all these damn bears are.

[Johnb317]

nice pictures!   We had a couple bears visit our cob site too.... so to stay legal do we sweep up the cob before bear season, or is that location is now a no no.
Not sure I'm going to hunt bear, but curious

[deaner]

to stay legal for bears id say stop putting cob out now, itl be gone by season for sure.  you absolutely do not want to shoot a bear anywhere in the vicinity of cob or any other attractant you put out.  if you plan on hunting bear in an area this is the time to stop baiting it to be legal.

[h20hunter]

Considering bear season is so close....if you have bait out I'd give it more than two weeks before hunting once the bait is removed or consumed.....that is pretty darn close....hard to say you weren't intentionally baiting if a bear is taken that soon.......my two cents.

[deaner]

youre right, depending on where he is bear season could be less than two weeks away, im looking at it from my perspective, of season starting september 1st. which is why i say quit putting bait out now would be fine.  cant be too safe, nobody wants to lose their license for 5 years

[h20hunter]

Yep....I agree with that......

[deaner]

so how would i go about posting up trail cam video here?  just tried to do one and it said file size is too large, max 10000kb or something.  can you resize videos?  not a big deal really, but had a video of 3 cubs together thought was kind of neat

[h20hunter]

I use YouTube......post the link.

[lokidog]

i sure want the population down.  if it wasnt for the fact that its also where i hunt deer and elk id be happy to tell everybody where all these damn bears are.

You can tell me... I have all the deer I can handle in my back yard and I will probably never, ever buy an east side elk tag.     Assuming it is on the east side.

[Smossy]

Considering bear season is so close....if you have bait out I'd give it more than two weeks before hunting once the bait is removed or consumed.....that is pretty darn close....hard to say you weren't intentionally baiting if a bear is taken that soon.......my two cents.

So no baiting for bear period ever, u can bait for deer all the way through the hunting season... Right? But if a bare is taken in a deer baited area, it could be looked at as poaching a bear over bait?

[Smossy]

i sure want the population down.  if it wasnt for the fact that its also where i hunt deer and elk id be happy to tell everybody where all these damn bears are.

You can tell me... I have all the deer I can handle in my back yard and I will probably never, ever buy an east side elk tag.     Assuming it is on the east side.

If you ever need help thinnin them out there on the island loki lemme know

[deaner]

Considering bear season is so close....if you have bait out I'd give it more than two weeks before hunting once the bait is removed or consumed.....that is pretty darn close....hard to say you weren't intentionally baiting if a bear is taken that soon.......my two cents.

So no baiting for bear period ever, u can bait for deer all the way through the hunting season... Right? But if a bare is taken in a deer baited area, it could be looked at as poaching a bear over bait?

absolutely no baiting bear.  you can bait deer all you want, but if youre baiting deer and a bear walks by, dont even think about shooting it unless youre a gambling man, cause if you get caught shooting a bear near your deer bait youre screwed