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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: skier2480 on August 23, 2010, 05:17:00 PM

Title: Nooksack area
Post by: skier2480 on August 23, 2010, 05:17:00 PM: Anybody else here hunt the Nooksack GMU area?
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Post by: seth30 on August 23, 2010, 05:17:42 PM: yep
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Post by: 50CalJim on August 23, 2010, 05:30:11 PM: Yep! The Bears that I've seen are very low. ;)
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Post by: seth30 on August 23, 2010, 05:30:47 PM: The one I ran into in August was low as well.
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Post by: robescc on August 23, 2010, 08:49:52 PM: Same here. I was at 5000 ft two weekends ago and absolutly no bear sign. I spotted 2 below me at 3200ft. By the time we got there they were gone. Look for green grass. The berries will be ripe in a few weeks.
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Post by: Bearhunter on August 23, 2010, 09:38:02 PM: We packed in way high this weekend and the berries were not even close to ripe let alone hardly maturing. No bear sign at all so we left a day early.
Title: Re: Nooksack area
Post by: Buckoholic on August 24, 2010, 12:49:37 PM: Theres no Bear in the Nooksack unit!!! Better try hunting somewhere down south!!! :)
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Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on August 24, 2010, 01:11:40 PM: Exactly... no bear there! I was between 4000 and 4500 for most of 2 days thisw weekend... NADA..... Nothing at all, berries are a week or so away from being ripe. Got down to 3000 and started to see sign...
Title: Re: Nooksack area
Post by: skier2480 on August 24, 2010, 02:08:20 PM: It's the only unit I hunt since it's so close to home. I'll usually wait until mid-September and hunt the higher elevations when the berries are ripening. :hunter:
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Post by: h2ofowlr on August 24, 2010, 02:47:17 PM: There could be some in there somewhere? Lots of terrain to cover.
Title: Re: Nooksack area
Post by: skier2480 on August 24, 2010, 04:29:14 PM: Quote from: Buckoholic on August 24, 2010, 12:49:37 PM
Theres no Bear in the Nooksack unit!!! Better try hunting somewhere down south!!! :)

Yeah...no bear there... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Nooksack area
Post by: ratherhunt on August 25, 2010, 12:11:31 PM: Yes it is close, so that where I hunt.