Bearpaw Season 2024

[bearpaw]

Last week we had a fantastic bear hunt, four hunters in camp, all four killed bear the first day and one guy got a second bear the same day, five bear taken the first day of the hunt.

Here’s Corey with his blondie taken the first morning and his much bigger blackie taken in the evening. The blonde bear never get very big, most guys can’t pass a blonde no matter what the size. One photo is guide Grant packing outblindie!

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Here’s the bear taken the second morning last week with the hounds:

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This week we have five hunters from Colorado and Pennsylvania, yesterday four of them killed bear on the first day of their hunt, and the other guy passed a small one. Here’s the four guys who tagged out yesterday with guides Zach, Brian, Daniel, and Grant. Two of the bear were over 6 feet, one was 5-11 and the other 5-10.

[Machias]

Yea, NICE bears!!!!

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This is the other three bear taken the first day last week, hunters from Washington, Georgia, and Maryland. In 53 years of bear hunting and looking at literally thousands of bear, I’ve never seen a bear with an orange ear? The ear was actually orange!

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Yea, NICE bears!!!!

Thanks Fred! Not all of them are big but there are some big ones and some with a lot of character. They are all bear that the hunters chose to shoot, we don’t tell anyone they have to shoot any bear, we always let them choose.

[pianoman9701]

Dale, you're sure treating these hunters to lifelong memories! Well done on these bears.

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Unfortunately, we had a hunter leave without a bear, but he did pass on some small to medium bear, wounded one, and couldn't find one in his scope, so he did have chances.

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We have quite a few hunters who go stream fishing after they get their bear. This week two of the bear hunters also fished the pond for a few hours, they caught and released about 50 to 60 brookies measuring from about 12 to 22 inches, the catching was so brisk that both were fighting fish at the same time on numerous occasions, they said they have never seen fishing like that before.

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Dale, you're sure treating these hunters to lifelong memories! Well done on these bears.

You are right!

Usually have several hunters who come back the next year, now with the fishing pond we can provide another dimension to their overall experience. This next week we have a big family coming hunting with several wives and kids coming along as non-hunters, some of them may want to fish too?

[nwwanderer]

Very special brook trout pond.  You may want to ask folks with experience stocking rates and effect of other species on the pond.  You do not want to screw it up.  Thanks!!!!

[Boss .300 winmag]

Nice Brookies.