Last weekend was a bust in Tucannon, but I connected on Friday

[markts]

Congrats, great story and bear. Mark

[Rufous]

Dean, I am happy for you that you were able to fill your tag and to do it with your sons watching the show. That is especially neat. I did not fill my tag. It was the worst weather this spring. I sure tried but was just not seeing many bears. I only saw a couple that I was interested in pursuing but they were out of range.

[zackmioli]

great bear and a great write up!

[saylean]

Pretty bear Dean! Congrats on getting one with the boys! Good work.

[ratherhunt]

Great Bear,Awesome write up Thanks for sharing

[bigpaw 77]

Congrats, great job and great color on the bear. Your boys will remember that hunt for ever, its great that you were able to share the hunt with both of them

[FWilliams]

thanks for sharing your story, that was a great read
.

Fred

[Jeremy S]

Great color on that bear!

[Elkstuffer]

Congrats on a fine bear Dean!

[madmack76]

thats an awesome bear you said the elk were bugling thats odd for this time of year good story and cool bear

[carpsniperg2]

alright, way to go

[Dean44]

Thanks for the congratulations everybody!

Rufous, yes it was a cold, wet spring.  We made 4 weekend trips and only one of those had warmer, dry weather.  We saw 6 bears total this season, and 4 of them were during that warm weekend.  If felt pretty fortunate that we found this bear on the last weekend of the season with with poor weather.

Madmack76, yes that surprised both us and the bear to hear the elk bugle. It was just the one bugle but it was long and loud.  We saw a ton of elk most days. They seemed to be in pretty good shape!

Hunting that part of the country was an incredible experience in itself.  The Blue Mountains are an awesome place to spend time hiking and if you happen to be hunting at the same time, then all the better!  My son even got in a little lake fishing and we had BBQ trout for dinner one night. I will try to post some more scenery pics when I get them sorted out.

[C-Money]

I like the color! Nice bear. Congrats!

[GoldTip]

Very pretty bear, congrats on being able to share that experience with your sons.

[hoyt5199]

Very nice bear, I love the color. Congrats!