Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: emac on August 18, 2011, 01:19:58 PM
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so next week i got four days off to do some quality bear hunting. I have been hunting of off I 90 and high way 2. The only thing that i have seen so far is my bank account getting smaller. I haven't seen any sign or any bears. nothing at all. So I was thinking about heading up around concrete or down by shelton. I scouted around concrete before the season and didn't see anything. But that was also my first time in that area. Shelton area I don't know at all but I know a guy down there that said he might be able to go with me one day. So if you had four days of where would you go for the best oppurtunity. I really wanna shot a bear but i would be thrilled just seeing sign and know that i am in the right area. I have just spent to much time and money to keep going without seeing any sign. Don't know if i am hunting the wrong areas or what. but i have been trying to learn these areas on my own. I am almost to the point of giving up.
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Nah, don't give up. I would suggest firing up google earth and looking for "new" clearcuts accesible off forest roads at various elevations. If you find a few that look promising check the date of the image. I look for 2008 or 2009 images on new clearcuts. That will give a few years growth and possible good areas. Maybe some water, dark timber.
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Go to C-Post! Everyone else is, There's got to be bear there,lol
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Thats what i hear c post is the place to be. I don't wanna give up i love the adventure and exploring. The pocket book just cant handle it. I will jump on goggle earth and check some spots. Thanks
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I'm heading out to C-post with a few (38) friends. We are going to do some bear drives.
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LOL, Yeah it's a lot better to do your own research and exploring these days :rolleyes:
And when you do find your honey hole? TELL NO ONE!
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What areas have you tried?
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Having hunted the shelton area a bit for a couple years it would not be my first pick I would go back to the highway 2 areas and look for berries and sign.....I lived out that way for a number of years and there were bears around back then....always ran into them just out and about...
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Off of highway 2 i have been hunting around foss river and jacks pass. of off 90 been up around stampeed pass
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Most bears I find are at Cpost. :tup:
Or on this site. Seepost(s).
Dont give up man, just keep plugging along!
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Most bears I find are at Cpost. :tup:
Or on this site. Seepost(s).
:chuckle: to funny
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emac....PM sent
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I'm heading out to C-post with a few (38) friends. We are going to do some bear drives.
:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Where is this C-post place again?
:chuckle:
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Over off the main drag. Just look for my truck. I've got a flag in back. Big flag. It covers up the apples, dog food, dead beavers from my trapping areas, molasses, doughnuts, and other misc sweets I like to have handy when I hunt bear. I love 'em so much I ususally keep them in a 50 gallon drum chained to a tree. Just follow the sweet smell of my honey pot and you'll find your way. :tup:
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Actually, I'll throw up an actual bit that may help. The cuts I've been learning about (thanks to a few members here) are mostly a few years old. I would normall pass a few of these up but am learning that bears like it a little thicker than I would assume. I was watching a blacktail doe on wednesday night and it was a good experience. I would have guessed that antything moving would be invisible but not so, just enough breaks in the brush that you have some shooting lanes but the critters still feel confortable. So...maybe when you are out and about, give those areas that are grown up a bit a chance. Sit on them for a bit and maybe you'll see something.
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ive also being doing alot of driving around looking for clear cuts and ive found a decent looking area but it is about 5000ft elevation, is that too high? what elevations should i be looking at?
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bing images has newer sat. photos...even though the rest of it sucks
