2010 NH Bear Hunt-Final Update Page #4

[Bill Carlsen]

Dave: Hang in there. Laura and I just got back from Maine. I went up for a specific bear that eluded me last year. I'll start the story on another thread.

[PV]

Good luck David !!! Ground blinds and bears can get very exciting!

[Huntrdfk]

Back at it again tonight, hurried to the stand after work and rebaited.  It was hot, in the low 80's, so I wore a lightweight top and.........shorts!  Never hunted in shorts before, but figured if I wasn't sweating I'd be fine.  I had been in the stand for just under an hour when I heard a stick break about 50 yards to my right.  I was looking that way for about five minutes, expecting a bear to come from there when I happened to glance left......bear.  I hate it when they do that, how can they just materialize without making a sound when the woods are so dry? I never reached for my bow,it was Booboo, and he snuck into the bait, grabbed a donut and ran off about thirty yards to eat.  He did this three times, the fourth, as he got to the bait he stopped and looked into the woods.  In a flash he swapped ends and was gone.....I'm thinking that Yogi is close and Booboo knew it.  I sat for the next hour and a half, every once in awhile hearing something walking in the area that Booboo looked at. If it was Yogi, he never showed himself, but I am confident that when I go to rebait in the morning the bait will have been hit hard.

This past Sunday, when Yogi tried to scare me, I left my blind at 7:10 pm.  Check the time this guy showed up at the bait.....

 

As near as I can tell we have three bears on this bait right now, there may be more and it looks like they are beginning to tolerate each other a little.....

 

I won't hunt again till Friday, but I'll try to post any interesting pics that come up....

David

[VTer]

Great pics Dave. What kind of camera are you using?

[Huntrdfk]

Thanks Greg, it is a Wildgame Innovations X6C. Good little camera that is affordable.....I got mine off of **** pretty cheap.


David

[hunt it]

Looking good. Try taking somebody in to bait with you. You bait and stay in blind they walk out to truck. These bears are laying close by and can hear you come to bait amd to hunt and when you leave. They are smart but your smarter, try this old trick I mentioned and I'll bet it will pay off. Also, the reason you are having hard time keeping up with bait is your set up is making it to easy for them to clean it out all in one go or a few trips. Next year get yourself a metal barrel with only a few small holes and chain it to tree. This way they have to roll it around alot and work to get bait out. This will buy you more time between baiting trips and cut down on bait used but still keep them there.  Go get yogi!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Dave,

Good Luck Friday!

[Larry Surtees]

Can't wait till you say he's down -- I'm excited for you bro!

[Huntrdfk]

Thanks guys, I hope to have a crack at him too.  

Having someone take me in is a great idea that I really think would have a chance of working Dave, the problem is that no one is available to do that.  My partner only has two more days left in the season that he can hunt, the rest of the time he is out of the state.  It is a 40 minute ride from my house to the bait, so having someone here do that is not an option either. Like I said though, I really think that would work.....maybe I can bribe someone here to sit by the big lake while I hunt.

David

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Ge Dave I wish I was a bit closer  I would call in Sick to work just to help you out.  I would love to help you drag a bear out of the woods.

[Shawn Leonard]

David, great pics and good story telling!! Best of Luck bud!! Shawn

[Bill Carlsen]

Dave: I don't think I would hesitate shooting any one of those bears...even BooBoo.

When we hunt up in Maine at Hunter's Point, the guides drop you off at your bait, you get set up, they add bait, bang on the barrel, make a lot of noise leaving and slam their truck doors loudly when they leave. One afternoon, Laura was in her stand. The guide went back to his truck to leave and when she heard him slam the truck door a small bear ran into the bait. It happens a lot. The bears learn when it's feeding time and I don't think that they can count past number one. Two guys go in, one leaves, the bear thinks the coast is clear.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Well?  It's Friday and its dark on the east coast. You are more east than I so So its probably darker there than here.  This must mean one of two things.

1.  you are dragging a bear out.    
2.  You didn't go and didn't see anything.    


Oh how I hope it's #!.

[Huntrdfk]

You forgot #3 Charlie, I did go and didn't see anything.  Neither my partner nor I had been able to rebait since Tuesday, course that meant the bait barrel was cleaned out......It has been rebaited, my partner will hunt tomorrow, I hope to get back Sunday afternoon.......

Bill, we just don't have someone to drop us at the bait, I am sure that would work......

11 days left to "get-r-done"

David

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Nice bears, and good luck to you.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Good Luck Tomorrow David!  

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Geez Dave, My Buddy is staying in Hampton beach right now. I know he would come and help if only he would answer the phone. Must be the Blues are biting to not hear back from him in 2 days.

[Sean B]

Good luck Dave, great story.  I passed one up the first week of the Maine season, and never got a crack at another.

[Big Ed]

Great read along bud, hope you succeed!!

[Shawn Leonard]

Waiting to hear how ya did! Shawn