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Title: bears
Post by: BCHunter on April 19, 2009, 01:21:09 PM
anyone seeing any bears while fishing?
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Dave on April 19, 2009, 01:45:25 PM
I'm curious - why do you ask? 
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Every Day on April 19, 2009, 02:31:18 PM
Because it's Spring Bear season   ;)
And Bear sausage is yummy  ;D

Heard of one up high already this year.....
Havn't seen one myself yet  :)
Title: Re: bears
Post by: kingpin on April 19, 2009, 05:23:23 PM
seen a few tracks the other day fishing on the vedder, decent sized too.. i figure another 2 weeks and it will be game on.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: dereke on April 19, 2009, 07:20:28 PM
There has been some grizz prints around on the lower Cheakamus :o. Lots of black bear crap around too.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on April 19, 2009, 08:00:56 PM
bear sausage :P

I was speaking to a guy yesterday that said he was seeing atleast one bear a day in or around the Chilliwack River, he was fishing the Chehalis River.



Title: Re: bears
Post by: troutbreath on April 19, 2009, 09:24:48 PM
"bear sausage :P "


So what do you do with the Bear? Chintzier? I think it's a good thing that the Bears are afraid of humans through hunters. I had my run in with the wild bunch and it's better if they have been hunted. Sometimes fifteen twenty bear right outside the  tent. :o Otherwise expect every once in a while,more often,someone gets chowed down. Especially if they smell spicey.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: kellya on April 19, 2009, 09:32:59 PM
15 or 20 outside your tent? hahaha
Title: Re: bears
Post by: shortfloat on April 19, 2009, 09:39:35 PM
Went out looking for bears today, in  the lower mainland lots of driving and walking but no bears today. still a little too early i think
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Mike D. on April 20, 2009, 11:14:31 AM
saw 2 the other day, looked like a sow and her cub...didn't bother with getting trigger happy.....gotta let em fatten up on grass and corn first for best meat quality!
Title: Re: bears
Post by: camtheman on April 20, 2009, 06:02:56 PM
about a month ago i went up to salmon arm with my uncle
just above where the tollbooth was on the oppositte  slope  i saw a big black bear
it wasnt a stump
Title: Re: bears
Post by: alwaysfishn on April 20, 2009, 08:52:57 PM
I think it's a good thing that the Bears are afraid of humans through hunters. I had my run in with the wild bunch and it's better if they have been hunted. Sometimes fifteen twenty bear right outside the  tent. :o Otherwise expect every once in a while,more often,someone gets chowed down. Especially if they smell spicey.

I'm sure everyone knows that the best way to deter bears in the wild is to wear little bells around your neck and carry pepper spray.......

However you may not know how to identify the difference between bear scat (poop) and grizzly scat... 



Here's a quick lesson.....

Black bear scat is usually full of semi digested berries.....   

Grizzly scat is usually full of little bells and smells like pepper spray  ;D
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on April 23, 2009, 09:19:50 PM
im gonna try this weekend again
Title: Re: bears
Post by: shortfloat on April 24, 2009, 12:58:05 PM
Yah i figure that im prolly going to be going out again on sunday. different area this time.... Hopefully I can come across something .. just to scope one would be a nice feeling. not quite sure if im going to take one this year or not, but i do like looking for them.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: odesseus on April 25, 2009, 02:08:34 AM
Bears are waking up around my house in Mission here; lot's of sightings by quads up in the hillls. Going scouting this weekend.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on April 26, 2009, 04:17:27 PM
i just got home from Vancouver Island, i hunted Saturday around Nanamio River, Cowichan Lake..etc areas and didnt see a single bear track, poop or a bear for that matter. The locals say its a late spring.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: shortfloat on April 26, 2009, 04:28:22 PM
was out again today in the lower mainland, I didnt see one but I ran into someone who did see one. Hopefully it picks up soon
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on April 26, 2009, 04:31:35 PM
im thinking 2 more weeks and we'll be into bears...
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Robert_G on May 03, 2009, 12:05:00 PM
I usually wait until late May early June. I find the bears are the dumbest then as the males walk up and down the FSRds not thinking about anything other then a female ready to go into heat. Also they have put a bit of weight on by then, and their coats aren't too bad either.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Steelhead King on May 03, 2009, 05:35:46 PM
Just got off the phone with my buddy from the island.. They hunted the back side of lake cowichan eariler this week and arrowed 2 blackies, one at 4 yard the other at 27 yard...
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Derp on May 03, 2009, 08:43:09 PM
Just got off the phone with my buddy from the island.. They hunted the back side of lake cowichan eariler this week and arrowed 2 blackies, one at 4 yard the other at 27 yard...

damn thats nice and close!  :)
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 03, 2009, 08:49:15 PM
was it Kelsy that shot the 4yard bear?
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Steelhead King on May 04, 2009, 10:31:09 PM
was it Kelsy that shot the 4yard bear?

Yea, with a crossbow...
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 05, 2009, 07:14:53 AM
i saw her bear, its NICE
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Steelhead King on May 05, 2009, 08:00:17 PM
Haven't see the picture yet.... But they said they gonna send me the video raw footage of the hunt...
Title: Re: bears
Post by: k.c. on May 07, 2009, 05:41:19 AM
A friend of mine got a bear outside boston bar on the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd of may.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 07, 2009, 05:47:33 AM
i think this weekend it will be really good, all the sun we had and rain now
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Robert_G on May 09, 2009, 07:58:12 AM
The bears are definetly out and about around Harrison and up the Lower Coq. Just have to know where to look.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 11, 2009, 07:27:55 AM
havent tried there yet, i was back in Kamloops and saw 2, one was a 3hr hound chse, bear got away. the other was a 3-4foot bear. Way to small!

It seems the areas i hunt at this times years previous arent really that green right now!...? no real bear sign, the deer are out thats for sure
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Robert_G on May 13, 2009, 04:26:30 PM
Going for a look this weekend around Merrit. Will report back.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 14, 2009, 05:48:01 PM
I'll be in Cache Creek with a few buddies and our hounds...15 hounds in total!
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 18, 2009, 06:54:59 AM
Saturday morning we released on a strike and treed this sow and her cub


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Saturday evening we drove past a bunch of cattle and a few hounds lite up, here we are giving the hounds cupcakes and then the cattle freak out start running off leaving what we thought was a calf. It was a young 4ft-4.5 bear that was curious about all the baying. I took out Boone and told him to get him get him het him...the bear barley made it to a tree.

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Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 18, 2009, 07:13:37 AM
Sunday morning just as we pull out of camp and maybe drive a km the lead hounds lites up and is released and takes off! we let all the hounds out and tree a sow with two cubs

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Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 24, 2009, 09:45:10 AM
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Title: Re: bears
Post by: Every Day on May 24, 2009, 07:45:35 PM
My two buddies got a really nice cinnamin yesterday.
While they were cleaning it they had another larger bear walk up (theirs was probs 200? pnds already).
They were going to down it as well, but they only had the car with them so they decided against it.  ;D
Might add a a pic later.
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Derp on May 25, 2009, 11:12:25 AM
Got this guy in hope on saturday evening.


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Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 25, 2009, 03:20:54 PM
my oldest (shooter) got scooped and needed stitches, i had to go back and get the bear with my two youngests.

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i promised her at the Hospital I'd haul it out hole for her to get pictures later, its in the box of the truck covered in ice..taking pics in the morning
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Derp on May 25, 2009, 03:41:12 PM
wow, must be so exciting hunting with poochies!
Title: Re: bears
Post by: BCHunter on May 25, 2009, 05:21:55 PM
i love it! i really enjoy working with the hounds. The spring season keep the hounds active and using their noses on dry ground

i like you bear Derp,
Title: Re: bears
Post by: Derp on May 25, 2009, 09:04:10 PM
i love it! i really enjoy working with the hounds. The spring season keep the hounds active and using their noses on dry ground

i like you bear Derp,

Thanks,

I think it's awesome to see the family involved! I brought my bro out for his first time and he's hooked! :)