when to quit for fall bear

[bankwalker]

Yeah, I'm not finding any berries in my areas either. A bit of salal here and there, but the blackberries and salmonberries are gone. I'm not finding fresh sign lately around where I saw it before.

I maybe should switch to glassing big clearcuts too.

I would look for big steep clear cuts between 3 and 6 years old that are bordered with thick reprod. I've been walking a few lately and there is alot of sign in the cuts I've been glassing that I can't seen from far.

I say steep cuts so you can look into them and see everything. I find a vantage point that gives me an higher point to glass from so I'm looking down into them.

[Boss .300 winmag]

Yeah, I'm not finding any berries in my areas either. A bit of salal here and there, but the blackberries and salmonberries are gone. I'm not finding fresh sign lately around where I saw it before.

I maybe should switch to glassing big clearcuts too.

I would look for big steep clear cuts between 3 and 6 years old that are bordered with thick reprod. I've been walking a few lately and there is alot of sign in the cuts I've been glassing that I can't seen from far.

I say steep cuts so you can look into them and see everything. I find a vantage point that gives me an higher point to glass from so I'm looking down into them.

I glassed one of these for over an hour today nothing.

[Longbowz]

I get bears on cam every year in late November

What are they feeding on?

[mxryder909]

I havent seen any bear in the last two weeks up in the sultan basin, just deer hunters....

[GBoyd]

Was out hiking behind some gates yesterday from sunrise to sunset, in a new area. I moved fast, scouting more than hunting. Found some killer berry patches, but no joy on any fresh sign. There were bears around when the berries were ripe.

Kind of disappointing, but it was a great hike and now I know where I'll be the last week of August!

[jasnt]

It was a poor year for berrys I think. Last year I found tons of bear and berries. This year was a little tougher for me. Found fresh bear poo today at 1800'
it was full of plum seeds

[bankwalker]

There was to many berries all at once out here. Low, mid, high elevations all at once. There was nowhere to concentrate the bears. The highest I hunt is around 4500ft and blue berries were ripe in late july.

[billythekidrock]

It was an excellent berry year on the westside. Still some Evergreen huckleberries around.

[Turner89]

I havent seen any bear in the last two weeks up in the sultan basin, just deer hunters....

Prior to last week was the last time I saw a bear up there. Before that I was seeing, or at least hearing one just about every time out. I did shoot My first bear on November 5th. though. They're  out still, just not as easily found

[skagitsteel]

last time out in the high country a little over a week ago and saw bears.  Some of the hucks and mountain ash still hanging on, worth a shot until the snow covers it up, which is later than normal this year

[boneaddict]

Stepped on one yesterday.  Not sure which one of us needed to go to the cardiologist first.  You think grouse are bad

[bankwalker]

Stepped on one yesterday.  Not sure which one of us needed to go to the cardiologist first.  You think grouse are bad

At least with grouse you usually know they are taking off in the opposite direction....can't always be certain with a bear 

[boneaddict]

Apparantly he was getting sleepy

[JackOfAllTrades]

Steppin on Bear or a Cow Elk..  Almost always need to clean my shorts! There's all this damn racket, thumpin, stompin, grunt'n and then silence, (silence because that's about when my brain has realized my heart stopped and tolt my innards to constrict like a boa, in some effort to make me implode). My eyeballs are still workin, my sniffer's still workin and just about when my brain yells at the heart to go thump thump again, it sends this nuclear charge of adrenaline and who knows what other ecoli laced chemical through my veins to make it thump harder and faster than any cardiologic stress test prescribed. That's about when that critter stops, turns and looks at me wondering WT Frick!
Then my innards relax and it gets messy from there on out. 
 
-Steve

[Turner89]

Steppin on Bear or a Cow Elk..  Almost always need to clean my shorts! There's all this damn racket, thumpin, stompin, grunt'n and then silence, (silence because that's about when my brain has realized my heart stopped and tolt my innards to constrict like a boa, in some effort to make me implode). My eyeballs are still workin, my sniffer's still workin and just about when my brain yells at the heart to go thump thump again, it sends this nuclear charge of adrenaline and who knows what other ecoli laced chemical through my veins to make it thump harder and faster than any cardiologic stress test prescribed. That's about when that critter stops, turns and looks at me wondering WT Frick!
Then my innards relax and it gets messy from there on out. 
 
-Steve