1st bear trail cam pics!!

  • bowhuntr24
    Somerset, Wisconsin
    Posts: 533
    January 24, 2008 at 5:03 pm #647218

    Rice and Balsam Lake areas I would worry about. Not even sure what to think about the Ashland area.

    rod-man
    Pine City, MN.
    Posts: 1279
    January 24, 2008 at 5:21 pm #647234

    been there…
    done that…..

    DRIVE FAST!!!!!
    ouch

    garvi
    LACROSSE WI
    Posts: 1137
    January 24, 2008 at 6:15 pm #647261

    You should also add that this will happen during the gun-deer season, go luck on anyone getting back.

    rivereyes
    Osceola, Wisconsin
    Posts: 2782
    January 24, 2008 at 7:01 pm #647291

    hey.. I live in the Balsam lake area.. does that make me the last line of defense? I was in Balsam lake the other day… looking for eagles…

    roscoe
    So St Paul
    Posts: 256
    January 25, 2008 at 8:08 am #647626

    I dont know for sure but i think a SKOL VIKINGS bumper sticker should also be required

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    September 6, 2009 at 12:34 am #197336

    Check out my other post for the background of my 2009 bear season story…

    Started baiting Tuesday. Put the camera out Wednesday. Got the first pics today (haven’t put bait out since Wed, so this was my first chance to check the camera)… Anyway, got about 70 pics. Had a few nice boars and some sows with cubs already!! Season opens next Wed. I have tomorrow and Monday to bait (or should I leave it tomorrow since I baited today, bait again on Monday, leave it alone on Tue, and then hunt Wed pm??)

    Hopefully one of these boars will come in after I get setup in the stand Wednesday.

    I especially like the picture of me getting to the baitsite at 4:12 (note the timestamp) and the last pic of the nice boar at 4:11… Woooooohooooo!!!! The direction he is looking is exactly where I was coming from (…exactly where I WAS…) at that instant!!

    Mike











    littlefishy
    Ellsworth, WI
    Posts: 186
    September 6, 2009 at 11:21 am #57484

    Some nice bear! The one in the first photo looks a bit skinny

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    September 6, 2009 at 12:58 pm #57485

    Ya, sorry about that one… Although that one IS a shooter… Or I should say he IS THE shooter.

    Didn’t meant to give you IDO guys the moon.

    Only included that shot for the time stamp. Pretty cool missing the bear by only a minute… I hoping to get a few more pics of him returning after I departed yesterday… I’ll check the camera today or tomorrow and find out.

    Mike

    mbenson
    Minocqua, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3842
    September 6, 2009 at 5:06 pm #57489

    whitsend:

    Others might disagree, but during the last week prior to the hunt, we started baiting every day, only putting a gal. of bait or so in. You don’t want to be feeding them to the point of full, you want them coming back checking to see if you have put some more in…

    If you can get a friend set up for opening day, start to bait that time period only. Get the bears into YOUR pattern. Then on the opener, have your partner with, have him/her come in with you and then once you are done baiting, send him/her on his way, just like you have been doing. That one that was looking at you, will be in your arms shortly afterwards!!!

    Mark

    mbenson
    Minocqua, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3842
    September 6, 2009 at 5:10 pm #57490

    whitsend:

    Are you planning on hunting the 9th as a baiter??? I would look your regs over carefully… the dog guys I think start on the 9th, I think you have another week to go on the 16th…

    I just reread for third time and if you mean next Weds as the 16th, you’re golden!!!

    Mark

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    September 6, 2009 at 6:57 pm #57493

    zone C, by Eau Claire, sort of the southern edge of good bear country. No hunting with dogs allowed here. All bear tags for zone c open the 9th.

    Straight from the DNR website…

    “2009 Season Dates

    Zone C with the aid of bait or with other methods not utilizing aid of dogs:

    September 9 – October 13″

    Thanks for keeping en eye out for fellow IDO’ers, though… I can see how guys might make that mistake!!

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    September 6, 2009 at 7:03 pm #57494

    a few more pics. unfortunately, I’m not sure my camera was functioning to full capacity (low batteries maybe??? – it was reading 50% today, and 75% just a day or two ago) I only got 4 pics, and two of them were from me today. The other two were a little too up close and personal. The bait was wiped out, though, which leads me to believe I should have had more pics based on 1 minute pic intervals. You can see two bears in the second photo if you look closely.

    Mike

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    September 8, 2009 at 2:42 pm #57576

    Quote:

    “2009 Season Dates

    Zone C with the aid of bait or with other methods not utilizing aid of dogs:

    September 9 – October 13″

    Anyone else heading out to hunt the baitpile tomorrow!!!????

    Mike

    Joel Nelson
    Moderator
    Southeast MN
    Posts: 3137
    September 8, 2009 at 3:03 pm #57583

    I should be in the stand tomorrow night! Looking forward to my first bear hunt.

    Joel

    jetdriver
    Hudson WI
    Posts: 491
    September 8, 2009 at 5:27 pm #57622

    Just got home from putting out more bait. I will be in my blind early tommorrow morning.

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    September 8, 2009 at 5:38 pm #57625

    Sweeeeet.. If I don’t get one tommorrow, I might have the option of doing some am hunts (vs evening hunts) this weekend. When you do an am hunt, do you walk in under cover of darkness, or do you instead wait til shooting light and stalk you way in to the stand site?

    Mike

    Brad Juaire
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 6101
    September 9, 2009 at 3:36 am #57671

    Some good looking bears whittsend! Good luck on your hunt!

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