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Offline carpsniperg2

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2010, 12:01:43 PM »
a couple of sasquatch :yike: were are the pics :yike: :chuckle:
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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2010, 12:09:31 PM »
This season was pretty lousy over here in the Blue Mtns. It was much colder and wetter than usual. Spring bears really prefer to come out when it is sunny. I just did not see nearly as many bears as I normally do. I hunted hard over several weekends, glassing lots of country and hiking many miles but the bears were not out much. I still think they should switch the season to May 1st to June 15th. That would make so much more sense to me.

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2010, 12:56:47 PM »
NI agree about switching the season to may 1st to June 15th.  Then I could Turkey hunt for 15 days first.

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2010, 03:37:42 PM »
I will be giving it another try this afternoon, check my camera from last Friday.
I have to go to the in-laws on Saturday, and my Daughters Softball team has a double header Sunday, so will only have mornings.
I hope to get out at least 5 more times before the 15th...
But I had a good season no matter what happens, learned a lot, have quite a few pictures of bears on my trail camera, added to my call collection, did manage to call one in, but it came in behind me, downwind, and across an opening  :bash:
All in all, not a bad start to my first year actually hunting bear instead of just carrying a tag, hoping to run into one.

that bear is laughing at you... :o  and I love following your hunt.....I cant wait for fall ......

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2010, 04:11:33 PM »
I think it is a bit slow for site members, but I am hearing of bears killed by non-site members so it is probably about average.  :dunno:




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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2010, 04:24:32 PM »
I only heard of 2 bears in the skagit taken...  Still waiting to see the video's from Hogsniper.... here he has a wild one. 
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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2010, 04:28:46 PM »
I heard the same thing from hogsniper as well. I did not fill my skagit tag either. I made three seperate weekend trips with no luck and very bad weather. Oh well.

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #22 on: June 03, 2010, 05:11:32 PM »
I had the 49 degrees north tag.  We saw one bear and didn't see much sign until late in the season when it started raining like a son of a gun.  I had a great time, learned the unit much better, and saw moose, elk, deer, and lots of turkeys and lots of ungrateful messy memorial day weekend campers.

I even learned a little about bear hunting in the spring. 

All in all it was great to have an opportunity to hunt in the spring and will wait for fall to redeem myself.  I think I put in 12 days of hunting, so much better than the alternative of "not' hunting.

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #23 on: June 03, 2010, 05:38:59 PM »
I had the 49 degrees north tag.  We saw one bear and didn't see much sign until late in the season when it started raining like a son of a gun.  I had a great time, learned the unit much better, and saw moose, elk, deer, and lots of turkeys and lots of ungrateful messy memorial day weekend campers.

I even learned a little about bear hunting in the spring. 

All in all it was great to have an opportunity to hunt in the spring and will wait for fall to redeem myself.  I think I put in 12 days of hunting, so much better than the alternative of "not' hunting.

I have heard from several people that 49 N was a real slow spring for Bear!  I wanted that tag really bad, you get them in the fall. 

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #24 on: June 03, 2010, 06:33:09 PM »
If you draw 49 in the future, I will be a decent resource for places to start.

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #25 on: June 03, 2010, 06:34:15 PM »
"I think that stump has a face..."  :chuckle:

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #26 on: June 04, 2010, 11:04:07 AM »
I had the small bear come through my trail on the 29th at 8:30PM, that was all last 7 days......
I guess my "hot spot" cooled off a bit.  :bash:
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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #27 on: June 04, 2010, 11:27:39 AM »
"I think that stump has a face..."  :chuckle:

Yes, pretty entertaining way to say bear.

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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #28 on: June 04, 2010, 05:52:43 PM »
I think I see a long day trip tomorrow.  :) Sun is supposed to shine :whoo:
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Re: Spring Bear
« Reply #29 on: June 07, 2010, 10:53:11 AM »
That's a nice looking bear. I'm still after it in Kapowsin- saw a monster in there 2 1/2 weeks ago- got 10 days into him-not quittin till eve of the 15th- Found another big peice of the puzzle last night. Good luck to all of you that are still huntin.   

 


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