Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Vortectoy on August 09, 2015, 08:32:13 PM
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Went bear hunting today to the alpine lakes form Snoqualmie pass. I went to rampart ridge via the lake Lillian back door trail. I didn't realize it would be so popular. Besides the fact there was a crap ton of people, there were no berries! Has the high heat killed all of them? I figured there would be some up high unlike the start of the trail but I was wrong. Any ideas?
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Go low.
Seeing the same problem everywhere up high....no berries, dry stream beds.
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Berries were about three weeks early this year, you missed em...
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Weather is sure a major impact this year on our hunting. I found lots of berries down low this weekend, stopped and ate a bunch, and surprisingly few hunters while local hunting in Mason Co.
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I typically hunt bordering the south end Olympic National Park boundary this time of year. But after a few quick evening trips this year. It's definitely safe to say the berries are on their way out this season.
Lower elevations 1,500ft and under are doing good.
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What kind? Blue? We started seeing them at 3800 but at 4500+ft they were thick and ripe mostly. Bear crap all over. And 3 asians picking in one draw. They were picked clean where bears had been but alot of em around. Most are ripe or almost ripe. Ate some, taste like a costco muffin! St Helens area.
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All the berries are long gone this year. They were way early
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Should be a good year for a fawn distress call.
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I do have a game call. I guess I'll try that. Just seems like it makes it much harder since not knowing where there eating.
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Try to hunt some clear cuts where there are stumps, slash piles, and good fat bugs! Bears don't only eat berries, they eat a wide variey of game, fish, plants and grass. Their are still berries, you just have to burn tread on the boots to find them. Good luck, AIM SMALL/MISS SMALL!
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We found a ton of blackberries last weekend. We picked a 5 gallon bucket in about an hour. I heard from some of my berry picking granny friends that the berries up high are not doing well but the lower elevations are.
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I've seen them around 2k feet recently. Good amount of berries in some clear cuts still from what i've seen.
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I was hunting low when I got my bear. Only place I found berries or bear sign!
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Been finding tons of berries lower. The blackberries were all over in the clear cuts--Himalayans, evergreens; and the native blacks were along semi-shaded roads and clearings. Down low had lots of blue hucks. Think most of the reds were past. Even finding the black evergreen hucks already starting to come in. Thimbleberries and salmon berries were at the end of their run. Found huge amounts of cascara--hundred cherries in some trees. Almost like there is too much food out right now.
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It was a screwy year for blue hucks in the high country, generally I hunt towards the end of august up high and this year even August 1 many of the berries were already burnt up, the places they were still good were shaded areas that would be pretty safe for a bear, but still not as thick as a normal year. Blackberries are ripe all over which is early too, and they are starting to go as well.
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Figure everything to be about 3 to 4 weeks early.
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There's a ton of salal fruit out now.
