Monroe Spring Bear

[saylean]

Just got my official permission slip to head out to Green Crow property...should be a kick! I passed along some of my bear sausage to be nice to the boys (and girl) over there.

[rasbo]

Just got my official permission slip to head out to Green Crow property...should be a kick! I passed along some of my bear sausage to be nice to the boys (and girl) over there.

let the air out of one for us

[arees]

I got out Wednesday for the opener with my hunting buddy.  We started after lunch due to his school schedule and had to make the drive from Redmond to Sedro Woolley first to get the gate key and then back to Monroe to get to our chosen hunting area.  Five year olds can get antsy sitting in a car waiting for a chance to go hunting.  Adults may suffer from the same fate.

We hiked in along an abandoned road and then off through the woods to get to a place between a marshy area and some old peels.  After waiting for a while and listening we called for about 45 minutes with no response.  We moved on for more scouting before the light completely failed.

All told, we saw two deer, some young skunk cabbage, some new grass, and some old peels.  No bears.

We will be out again on the weekend.

[saylean]

Good luck Arees. Maybe I will see ya out there! Have fun.

[huntncoug]

I will be out as well in a green Dodge Ram, say hello if you see me.

[arees]

I'm in a blue Dodge Durango.

[arees]

I spent Saturday prowling around and making calling stands with my crack calling team.  We were out the door before 6 am and made it home before 9 pm.  With a few breaks in between for lunch, pond exploring and BB gun shooting.  No bears were directly involved, but we saw some sign that looked promising to us.

We did bump into both Saylean and Huntncoug while we were out.

Here is the calling duet of Bob and James with Bob working the jackrabbit call and James on the mouse squeaker:



As far as we know, we only had one listener for our concert:



Our calling locations focused on areas that had openings for greenery to grow, water for skunk cabbage, and south facing slopes.  Just before lunch we got into an area that looked promising (i.e. it had more than just last year's peals).  We found what we think is bear scat, not from today but we think it is from this season at least.  Perhaps one of the experts could confirm our guess.



The area had several torn up logs and this stump had lots of debris around it that looked recent.





In the afternoon we made it up to the snow line but didn't see anything promising up there.  We did hear a few shots lower down but they may have been target shooting.  All in all it was about as good a day as we could ask for without a bear showing up.

On the way out, my son announced that he had finally spotted a bear for me.  It was a little out of the hunting area and may have a collar on it.

[saylean]

It was good to meet you all out there. Thanks for the chat.  Glad to see you had a good time and saw some sign. Bout the only thing I saw was some deer and old peels.

[billythekidrock]

I would say that pic looks like bear poo, but the stump is just rotten.

[arees]

We went up again on Sunday and continued our success at seeing no bears.  We scouted a new area.  We did find two interesting things on one walk.  The first was a skull.  I think it is beaver due to it's teeth.



The other was more of a mystery.  We found a feather hanging from a thread in the brush just off the road we were hiking on.  It was right near the beaver skull.  I'm not sure what to make of it but was concerned that it might be related to beaver trapping so we did not investigate too closely.



The hunt goes on...

[rasbo]

more than likely bobcat set

[saylean]

There is a set of feathers on a fishing line over at the clockum that I left over from archery/predator hunting (just plain forgot it)....I am going to pick it back up this year if it is still there.

[huntncoug]

Saylean, was that you parked at the Marsh Creek Mainline gate on Saturday with the bear permit in your window?

[huntncoug]

It was a Toyota 4 Runner

[saylean]

Ya. I hiked in a few miles and returned. I figured I needed the exercise anyway.

guess im old school.

Actually, the key I have fit in the lock, but I couldnt get the lock to turn, so I just hiked in and ran into Arees and family up there.