Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: sled on April 19, 2011, 10:03:06 PM
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So I am curious on what type of areas you concentrated your spring bear hunting and where did you end up harvesting your bear?
Did you hunt Clearcuts, or thick stands of timber where bears peeled trees?
Where have you seen the most Bears in the spring time?
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Find spring food sources like grass, skunk cabbage, wild onions, etc and you will find bear sign.
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Ditto. Find south facing slopes that are semi open that are 10 days or so out of the snow. Find wild onion patches, sit and glass. If you don't know what wild onions look like, it looks like grass in your lawn but different. Pick some and take a bite, they are hotter than hell and you will know when you are in the right spot.
A hard lesson that I learned. When you see a bear feeding take your time on the stock. He aint going anywhere. I blew two great bears by thinking they would be gone. If there is food they will come and stay for awhile.
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good info! glad you asked that question cause I have been curious of the same thing
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One more thing we learned over the years. Glass the snow for bear tracks. We had seen these but until we walked through the snow fields we did not know they were bear tracks. When they are on the dirt they pick up mud and when they cross the snow they will leave a wandering mud trail. It can wash out, but you can spot these with binoculars and you can really find a hot trail by keying in on this sign if you can find it.
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I had found an odd area that was full of stripped trees and due to these young tree dying off, it had small open areas (40 to 100 yards long) surrounded by super thick brush and tall mature trees. It is a really cool area.
I concentrated on smaller trees (10 yr old or so) where there was obvious bear sign, and swampy outskirts.
Good luck!
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I found mine in an east facing clear cut that was surrounded by areas of pealed trees.
