Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Gobble on July 31, 2008, 05:40:49 AM
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I went scouting last night out near Mt. Rainier and was deeply dissapointed in the lack of Berries on the Huckleberry bushes, not even green ones. Found a large pile of bear crap that was a inch and a half in Dia. and it was all grass. Has anyone one else noticed the lack of berries this year?
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Maybe try a little higher or lower?
In the lowlands I have found red huck, black and salmon berries that are ripe or ripening. The cascara is still a month away and I have not checked Oregon grape or Salal.
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Yeah, I'll do that. I think alot of the berries up high will be late this year anyway because of the crappy spring. Even the cherries this year were late, I just picked my last ones last week
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Over here in the NE corner of the state it is a BUMPER crop of berries this year. Tons of huckleberrys!!
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Was scouting at 5000 feet plus a week and a half ago in south central cascades and the berries were growing but still green and nowhere near ripe. It was/is a very short growing season this year with the snow staying on for so long up there.
I imagine the bears are probably pretty hungry.
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where were you at gobble? I was up copper creek (by mt. rainier) last week and it was still spring up high it seemed but down low the salmon berries were ripe.
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There are tons or berriers out down low right now. I never count on berries up high until the last week of august.
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I have been seeing a lot of salal, black berries, and salmon berries at lower elevetions.... Up high not sure. Have not been out there in 2 weeks but suspect the area I hunt is still in the green berry stage.
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went out this morning............ no berries, no bears, 5000ft. level east pierce county heavy fog aswell. did see 1 beaver and 2 grouse, :dunno: call it a learning experience.
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lots of berries low this year where there normally are none becuase its too dry. i would be the bears are low...eastern Washington I am tlaking, if that matters to any of you
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The wild blackberries are extremely late this year. They are now getting ripe where on a normal year they would have been ripe around the 4th of July. I would imagine the huckleberries will also be very late.....Its definitely a different kind of a year...............Les
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I agree. Down lower on the west side would be my guess. Today's berry fields looked like this everywhere up higher.
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10001/P8020004.jpg)
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The wild blackberries are extremely late this year. They are now getting ripe where on a normal year they would have been ripe around the 4th of July. I would imagine the huckleberries will also be very late.....Its definitely a different kind of a year...............Les
4th of July is also the time we start finding chanterelles but not this year..too dry.
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1000 feet is where I spent the weekend. Lots of berries. My buddy took one today. no pics yet, but real soon.
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went out this morning............ no berries, no bears, 5000ft. level east pierce county heavy fog aswell. did see 1 beaver and 2 grouse, :dunno: call it a learning experience.
Out of curiosity, where do you get up to 5000ft in Pierce County. Never think of it having much elevation?
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No berries even forming 4000' Lewis River. Hardly a berry to be found. Bears are eating the trees up! How's this for fresh!?
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Nice pic.
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Glassed a huge five year old cut that was prolly 350 plus acres,, just full of black huckleberries that are not quite ripe. Wild blackberry and salmonberry were just ok, nothing to write home about. Fog was real bad this morning. On another cut,, made a calling set up and called in a hawk that sat right over me and bitched me out for not being a small deliscous animal. After a while he had enough of me and my sounds and flew away.
