Well 6 of us hunted near Ignace Ontario this year. We left on Saturday AM from Alexandria, and headed north throught International Falls. We arrived at the Lodge at about 3:00 in the afternoon and unpacked the trucks and trailer. After we got settled in we met w the guide and drew stand sites. They all varied in location from 12-35 miles back into the bush off logging roads.
So Sunday was the first day we started hunting so I got dropped off at 11:00 am. My stand site was very cool looking. I got dropped off and walked about a half mile down this old logging road then veered off the main trail to the bait site another 200 yds away. I walked through thick brush then it opened up to 40′-50′ tall red pines that towered over me. The terrain was all emerald green moss, and real boggy. If you got off the trail to the bait box your boots would suck right in. I saw that the bait box wasn’t hit and I climbed into my stand.
At about 5:00 pm a black blob appeared about 60 yds away. He stopped and looked right at the bait box.Then his nose went up and he was slowly making a halfmoon circling the bait making his way downwind. I could tell he was a smaller bear 125-150 lbs. He had big pointy ears, no belly at all, and real cautious of the bait site. He finally made it to the bait 16 yards away from me,and before he lifted the logs he looked right up in the tree at me 
great I thought im busted. But to my surprise he grabbed a mouthful of meat and tookoff about 10 yds away and ate it.He did that about 3 times. Then he would walk over to my tree and sniffed the base of it and look up at me. But the third time he did that all i heard was his claws digging into my tree and sure enough he was on his way up to check out the blob in the tree. 
His head got right below the platform and I was just sitting there bow in hand just waiting this thing out 
. But as fast as he was up the tree he went right back down to clean out the bait box. WOW what a rush. 
He was pry around me for about 35 min. and then he walked off. It was starting to get dark and I was thinking about getting down when I heard a twig snap. Then another bear came in and I knew that was the one. Nice long hair, and looked twice the size of the last one. She walked right by the bait box, saw it was hit and kept walking right to my left quarting away. She then stopped about 15 yds away bc of a downed log in her path and thats when I was able to pull back and let the arrow fly. The arrow hit right behind the shoulder but only went halfway in. The bear spun around biting at the arrow and i put 2 more into her,and she exhausted right there. 
What a great feeling knowing we didn’t have to track her through the bog. Its my first bear w bow, and was a great trip we went 5 for 6. And also had some great walleye and pike fishing. And one guy we went with shot a blond color phased.
Also one bear was left for 2 hrs before we tracked it and a timberwolf found it before we did and ate about 10 lbs of meat off the bear. My bear is the first pIcture.
September 22, 2009 at 5:07 am
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I think I would have soiled myself 
You can harvest either or…. 
Not sure what I would do with a big bad wolf… 
