Twolftg
Active Member
Really nice bear Holehopper! Did he come in during the day at all? I am finding it to be a real slow start to the year, thru most of Minnesota they are saying the bear forage is highly available, my old site I took a bear from last year that had alot of activity, took 2 days for them to find and only had maybe 3 different bears visit throught the week and didn't clear me out. Here is the best picture of the largest bear. 
Then I had one new site that wasn't hit at all which was a first in my bear baiting career. Finally at a third site we started on the 13th we didn't get any action till the 18th, nothing huge but a cool dark brown bear.
Looks pretty young. Can't tell if this bear is different or not, my gut reaction is yes, but it has the same dark brown and bear bears can be so deceiving just by changing angles and moving to a slightly different location. I moved the camera for next week to get a better view.
I had one other spot we planned to bait and just didn't get to it last weekend, my hunting partner wanted to try the location that had a no show and we were short on time. So we went check it out and there was three baits within 1/4 mile area. Obviously a couple other guys had the same idea. So we went and checked out another area and found a spot. We do have an ultimate fall back location we figured we could start late if needed, the cabin. Friday night I left a 20lb box of frosting in the box on the atv and a bear came, climbed up on the trailer and pulled the box out and went to town about 10 yards into the woods.
Then I had one new site that wasn't hit at all which was a first in my bear baiting career. Finally at a third site we started on the 13th we didn't get any action till the 18th, nothing huge but a cool dark brown bear.
Looks pretty young. Can't tell if this bear is different or not, my gut reaction is yes, but it has the same dark brown and bear bears can be so deceiving just by changing angles and moving to a slightly different location. I moved the camera for next week to get a better view.
I had one other spot we planned to bait and just didn't get to it last weekend, my hunting partner wanted to try the location that had a no show and we were short on time. So we went check it out and there was three baits within 1/4 mile area. Obviously a couple other guys had the same idea. So we went and checked out another area and found a spot. We do have an ultimate fall back location we figured we could start late if needed, the cabin. Friday night I left a 20lb box of frosting in the box on the atv and a bear came, climbed up on the trailer and pulled the box out and went to town about 10 yards into the woods.
Looks like that one was a, Hit and Run! I did notice a lot of raspberry's on my drive out there today. So I just freshened the bait, and am going to hope for the best.
