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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Bigmike79 on July 26, 2011, 08:55:57 PM

Title: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: Bigmike79 on July 26, 2011, 08:55:57 PM: i am new to bellingham and want to hunt some black bear the season. any tips or areas that i should try. i have doing a lot of reading about calling. i think I'm going to try that some. really i just need to know where to look around bellingham. or just where to look in general.
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: bear on July 27, 2011, 06:33:16 AM: Head up in the hills, they all have bear on them. Bear
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: h20hunter on July 27, 2011, 07:28:33 AM: Do some hunting/exploring/hiking up and around the sedro wooly area. Just head out, look for trucks with gun racks, follow 'em.

I'm kidding about the following them part. Just get up and away, find some berries, do a lot of walking and exploring. You can learn quite a bit that way and may even stumble onto one.
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: 50CalJim on July 27, 2011, 09:08:16 AM: Since your in Bellingham just drive toward Mt Baker & get in the low to mid elevation foothills that surround Baker this time of year. Check out old logging units with good reprod growth behind gated or abandoned roads the Bears will be there guaranteed. I've been hiking up high at snow level & I haven't seen any Bear sign up there yet. Good luck!
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: CoyoteCowboy on July 27, 2011, 11:36:00 AM: anyone seen bears in hills behind lake whatcom (north and southeast)? i wanna play around up there.
Title: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: NWWA Hunter on July 28, 2011, 04:42:03 PM: Quote from: Bigmike79 on July 26, 2011, 08:55:57 PM
i am new to bellingham and want to hunt some black bear the season. any tips or areas that i should try. i have doing a lot of reading about calling. i think I'm going to try that some. really i just need to know where to look around bellingham. or just where to look in general.

Calling may work but from everything I've tried and heard there are way too many berries around here so there's not much use for calling since their favorite food source is available almost all fall. Very early mornings and late evenings are about the only time they are out of the trees as it's usually really warm until October when your wearing a fur coat. I guarantee that if you go up any logging road (if there gated walk) or trail there's bears there. You just need to look around a little.
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: xxlx7 on July 28, 2011, 05:18:30 PM: You folks from down south should learn how to spell, or read on a map how to spell :chuckle: its SEDRO WOOLLEY!!!!!!! And there are no bears around here, only hikers coming from the Everett area thinkin there are bears..... :hello:

Kyle
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: 3nails on July 28, 2011, 08:02:12 PM: Used to set up bear camp up high above Bellingham. Lots of snow up there this year. Avelanch took the cabin. Lost my mule. We swum out of it. No matter, weren't no bear left anyhow.
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on July 28, 2011, 08:39:15 PM: Quote from: h20hunter on July 27, 2011, 07:28:33 AM
Do some hunting/exploring/hiking up and around the sedro wooly area. Just head out, look for trucks with gun racks, follow 'em.

I'm kidding about the following them part. Just get up and away, find some berries, do a lot of walking and exploring. You can learn quite a bit that way and may even stumble onto one.
Just do not follow me :bdid:
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on July 28, 2011, 08:41:51 PM: Quote from: xxlx7 on July 28, 2011, 05:18:30 PM
You folks from down south should learn how to spell, or read on a map how to spell :chuckle: its SEDRO WOOLLEY!!!!!!! And there are no bears around here, only hikers coming from the Everett area thinkin there are bears..... :hello:

Kyle
Yeah ,,, you tell em Kyle ..... :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: h20hunter on July 29, 2011, 08:15:38 AM: Didn't know fulk up yonder in Sedro Woly spelt that gud anyhows?

Hah!
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: hunter105 on July 29, 2011, 07:49:26 PM: I hear hundreds of bears have been spotted off highway 542. Just keep driving until you see them
Title: Re: Bellingham Bears??
Post by: rtspring on July 29, 2011, 07:55:18 PM: Quote from: 3nails on July 28, 2011, 08:02:12 PM
Used to set up bear camp up high above Bellingham. Lots of snow up there this year. Avelanch took the cabin. Lost my mule. We swum out of it. No matter, weren't no bear left anyhow.

Jerimiah Johnson, love it.

Can't watch that movie enough, talk about one tough son of a b****..