One of my buddies from here in town just called. He just got his 1st bear 
They were so fired up all the bear pictures they had been getting only to find out in the last week the WI DNR has trapped 14 bears out of the section of woods he was to hunt 
they claim crop damage but on the positive side they videoed his kill and the luminock lit up 
ill post pics when i get them 
Can’t wait
We want pictures and a story!
Sweet 
yep, 7:30 p.m. Thursday night, I had just finished my 20th cast or so with a gold orange tailed bulldawg on a steep drop with the wind blowing nicely on it carrying me across the front of the break. A light rain was falling, the first in two weeks, a perfect night for muskies, in fact it set up to be one of the best we had seen in the last two weeks!!! Water temp was 69*, water drops from 5′ to 60′ in a short length and baitfish balled up all over what I had been over, then got the text “Big Bear Down, 911 SHOTS FIRED”.
Needless to say, I hooked the plug to the rod, fired up the Honda and ran back to the landing to get home to unhook the boat. Once there, I grabbed a couple of flashlights, extra batteries, boots, I thought the camera, jumped in the truck and headed north for the 35 minute or so drive to the home of my good friends parents deep in the Northwoods of WI.
By a little after nine, 8 or 9 of us has assembled to trek into the woods to find this black beauty that had been arrowed just after 7. We road in his brothers pickup truck the mile or so into the woods to where the trail into the bait started. Once back at the bait, one porky was climbing the tree next to the bait and another was sticking his quilled butt in the air at us from under one of the logs in the bait crib. We walked a little further to the luminock Al had left in the ground for us to find to start our track.
Once on the trail, blood wasn’t real easy to find, but there was just enough to keep us pointed the right direction!!! All of a sudden Al, who in the lead, said abruptly, whoa there it is!!! The black butterball was a mere three feet in front of Al, expired.
All right, all of that and I still don’t have permission from Al to put his mug in front of my fellow IDO’ers, so I am going to crop his pic until I get a chance to talked to him, but I will show the bear…
Mark
P.S. There is a big smile behind that white out!!!
That looks like a brute! 
Can’t wait to hear the story and see some more pics! Congrats to the hunter!
nice bear congrats al 
That looks like a dandy!
nice looking bear congrats with bow awsome
Al graciously gave me permission to put “his ugly mug up” and so here is the happy hunter with his 340# dressed weight sow. They figured the live weight at over 380#, but in my mind it could have been as big as 400#!!! I also attached the trail cam pic from the night before. Al decided not to hunt as the wind was not from a good direction.
He got dropped off at 2-ish in the afternoon and had a sow with three cubs in, another smaller bear and apparently when the bear he was wanting came in the sow with cubs was still there as he could hear her snapping her jaws at this bear. Arrow did go through the heart as was determined by the autopsy after we found her that evening. Great time!!!
Mark
WOW. Great pics!!!!
Congrats!!!
Wow! 340 is very big for a sow. I would say she could have went anywhere from 380-400 live. Either way that is a dandy! Usually sows have nicer coats than boars when they get that big. We got another decent boar this Saturday. Dressed at 247. No pics as he was already loaded on the truck before I could get to my camera. My buddies 70 something mom took the shot. Pretty cool. On Friday we treed a smaller boar in the 150 range and let it go. Yesterday we got on an unpleasant momma and her 3 babies. We were able to catch the pack before any damage was done to us, the dogs or her and her family. There is word of a 640 dressed boar that was harvested just south of highway 8, by a bait sitter on Friday night. I guess the guy owns the BP station in Tripoli. He supposedly had a 400lber on the bait earlier that night, but held out for this bigger one. Have you heard anything about that one Mark?
Plotts:
She did have a beautiful coat, in fact nicer than my boar from two years ago.
The only thing I have heard of in the 600# + range was close to 8, but way over by Cumberland. Story was in the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram and was probably posted in here.
Mark
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