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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: BLUEBULLS on June 22, 2010, 08:42:15 AM

Title: berries
Post by: BLUEBULLS on June 22, 2010, 08:42:15 AM: I've been hoping that with the late spring and cool weather that the huckleberries might stay on a little later in the year.... actually i'm counting on it, the usually dry up and the bears leave about a week before bear season.

what do you think? Am I in luck?

I'm taking my 4 year old to whack one with me and I have a felling the huckleberries would keep her good and occupied.
Title: Re: berries
Post by: Skyvalhunter on June 22, 2010, 08:57:10 AM: What I have seen on some of the bushes so far is a good number of berries but that is down lower. When you throw in the higher elevations it may be a different story. i was up at around 4500 feet last weekend and there was still 3 or 4 feet of snow. This might have a effect of weather the berries mature soon enough and get pollenated. If we do have a early frost then the berries go to pot quickly. I know my blueberries are going well but thats at my house.
Title: Re: berries
Post by: let.it.fly on June 22, 2010, 10:08:25 AM: in the lower elevations i have been noticeing that berries are ripening a lil earlyer then normal. the salmon berries(in my area) seem to be rapping up already.
Title: Re: berries
Post by: Kain on June 22, 2010, 03:41:23 PM: I want all the berries all gone by season opener. Give a bunch of hungry bears to call in. :chuckle:
Title: Re: berries
Post by: klickitat on June 24, 2010, 06:57:33 PM: Quote from: Kain on June 22, 2010, 03:41:23 PM
I want all the berries all gone by season opener. Give a bunch of hungry bears to call in. :chuckle:

I haven't called a bear in yet. I tried a fawn distress and a cotton tail distress with no luck for the past few years. Have you had luck with a particular call and brand?
Title: Re: berries
Post by: rasbo on June 24, 2010, 07:22:58 PM: berries are looking good...lower,2500 to 3000 just getting ready where Im at..Dead Ed wants to shoot one with berry milk on its lips :yike: :chuckle:
Title: Re: berries
Post by: saylean on June 24, 2010, 07:35:57 PM: I saw some black berries today that were just starting their green berries....
Title: Re: berries
Post by: runamuk on June 25, 2010, 07:50:59 AM: I saw red huckleberries and salmon berries so far starting to ripen in the lower elevation 500-1000 ...
Title: Re: berries
Post by: Wazukie on June 25, 2010, 08:15:31 AM: We get our berries on the Mt. Lat year we were still picking huckleberries at the end of September. Really depends on where you're hunting them. But i do know that bear and huckleberries go good together :)
Title: Re: berries
Post by: Squatch on June 29, 2010, 09:55:36 PM: With a late start it may be a blessing in disquise. If, the blue's make it, they will be on longer giving us a better shot later in the season when the bears are usually more spread out and difficult to find.
Title: Re: berries
Post by: strutnrut1984 on June 29, 2010, 10:06:16 PM: Tons of berries this year and look early over here on the westside.from what I'm seeing.
Title: Re: berries
Post by: klickitat on June 30, 2010, 05:53:09 PM: Took the family for a trip down USS 23 out of Randell. I stop on a creek 9 miles south. Strawberries are in flowers and the everything else has dropped flowers and have green berries starting. I do not have an altimeter so I am not sure what the elevation is. Around Randell the black berries are green and I would say at least 4 weeks.

BTW; cut throat are plentiful but small.
Title: Re: berries
Post by: epq21 on June 30, 2010, 07:40:39 PM: :drool: :drool:MMMMMMMM Dead Ed likes berry milk on bear...me wants bear to meet arrow.
Title: Re: berries
Post by: rasbo on June 30, 2010, 07:44:53 PM: Quote from: epq21 on June 30, 2010, 07:40:39 PM
:drool: :drool:MMMMMMMM Dead Ed likes berry milk on bear...me wants bear to meet arrow.
:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: berries
Post by: Jeremy S on July 01, 2010, 07:46:07 AM: looks like baiting tpo me?