Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: clindsayrun on September 21, 2008, 08:52:17 AM
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So all the berries are gone from up high. This week I saw three bears shot by teenagers just outside of Oroville on the edge of apple orchards. The bears have moved even lower and are now feeding on chokecherries and apples...
Anyone having any luck. I've been out just about every day for the last week. I saw one really small bear and chose to pass on it.
Anyone have any ideas, short of asking permission to hunt an orchard I'm not really sure what else they're feeding on...up in the mountains they were eating berries a few weeks ago...any ideas what they're eating now?
-Corey
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Mountain ash just seemed to have their berries redden up. I know bears like them. Might look for sign around there. Just a guess... Some places over here still holding blackberries.
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Lots of feed up high still. More mountain Ash than I have ever seen. Hucks are still on and so are the snowberries and thimble berries where it hasn't froze. The okanogan highlands etc. Cascades probably have froze. The chokecherries and elderberries are a big draw and so are the thornapples or hallberries. The bears are more scattered this year than most becasue of the food availability.
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Didn't know they were here but second that about Mountain Ash. It was an ultimate favorite of the bears and Moose, had several trees that I planted in my yard in AK, between the bears eating the berries and the moose eating everything except the trunk they never could grow..
