Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Cougar on August 11, 2007, 01:05:49 AM
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So basically I'm kind of a greenhorn when it comes to hunting bear now since I'm pretty young and just starting out to hunt on my own this fall. I was gonna go and hunt bear in the next week or two and I needed to get some advice/tips on any tricks that I can do to get a better chance at seeing and possibly getting a shot at one.
But some questions that I had to start out were:
1. What type of predator call would I use (bear cub distress, fawn distress, dying crow/rabbit)
2. About how long and how often would I be calling for?
3. Would I have a better chance of calling in/seeing one near old overgrown clearcuts on the hillsides or just in the forest in a place where it is really thick?
Anything else that you all could think of that you think might help me probably would and it would be much appreciated. I have a lot to learn about hunting still.
Thanks. :)
- Mark a.k.a. "Cougar"
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Mark, take a look at this artircle by BillytheKidRock: http://hunting-washington.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=45
He covers all your questions in that article.
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FOOD! that is the main thing a bear thinks about while it is awake. what can I eat the most of, get the beat protien from and where can I be bothered the leat while doing it, that is a bears thought process. find area that has those properties and I bet you are gonna be real close to bears.
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:o Where is BillytheKidRock when you need him. :chuckle:
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Yeah I read a lot about calling and a link that huntwa sent me helped me out a lot with knowing how to call.
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i'm going to hunt nason Ridge or the pass. i'll be calling. sick of the brush. i called my first bear in with a Johnny stewart pc7. it has a raspy sound like jack rabbit. i'm making bear call's today there going to be out of antler closed Reed. to take calling. i stay around an hour wich is cool.this time of year i call in coyote and bobcat they seem to come in around the 1/2 hour mark. i'll be calling drainage's and opening were there is food. good luck. Rick
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i second high country, but more specifically, especially for that area, FIND THE BERRIES. that would be my advice. with those rains in late july, it has produced some of the best berry crops up there i've seen in a while.
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i'm heading out tomorrow up the 6700 road above wenatchee lake or stampede pass. need some open country. hunted brush last week. Rick
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Rick - Good luck and let us know how ya do.
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rick, was up there a few weeks ago before the season and saw a bear and cub on the road right by the smithbrook parking lot. i would be curious as to how the berries are doing. went over the pass the first week of bear and there wasn't a berry in sight. seen some nice bear around there off the roads though, once they ripen up, in past years. obviously my eastside season is done, but i'm just curious.
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i'm heading out tomorrow up the 6700 road above wenatchee lake or stampede pass. need some open country. hunted brush last week. Rick
Hunted that area alot in the past. Lots of bear actvity but seems like they are all small ones. Maybe its gotten better :dunno:
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That link won't open :dunno:
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That link won't open :dunno:
Pj....just a joke link. I made it up. Wish we could send them all back to california. :chuckle:
