What to do now that bear tag is filled???

[Joe Hulburt]

Bonk some springers!

Life is good on the Oregon Coast.....



Right at 30 pounds bled.

 

[Sawtooth]

Great looking fish. I got down to the Columbia below John Day Dam a couple weeks ago. Those springers are some of the best tasting fish on the west coast. Looks like you will be eating well for quit some time with a fish that size.

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

That is a beautiful fish! Trade you some catfish & crappie?

 

[Mica Man]

One chromed out springer, good looking fish.

 

[VanHook]

Sweet!!!!!!

 

[Joe Hulburt]

That is a beautiful fish! Trade you some catfish & crappie?

I hear catfish and crappie are really good but I can't get enough Spring Chinook. Especially salt water fresh ones like this. Just had a big dinner of baked springer and plan to can up a bunch of him tomorrow night to get me thru the winter. My candy fish! I just eat it right out of the jars....

 

[Art Vandeley]

That's a good lookin fish.. Bet he's tasty too. Nice catch!

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

I hear catfish and crappie are really good but I can't get enough Spring Chinook. Especially salt water fresh ones like this. Just had a big dinner of baked springer and plan to can up a bunch of him tomorrow night to get me thru the winter. My candy fish! I just eat it right out of the jars....

I don't blame you,Joe. Those Springers are a lot harder to come by. A client brought me a chunk a few years ago and I then understood what the big deal was about Springers.

 

[sbhooper]

Cool stuff.

 

[dan.kirkpatrick]

good lookin fish.///still nothing for me yet on 216a spring bear,,,only 1 single scat found so far,,this 216a hunt appears to not even be very good at all.

 

[Joe Hulburt]

good lookin fish.///still nothing for me yet on 216a spring bear,,,only 1 single scat found so far,,this 216a hunt appears to not even be very good at all.

For what it's worth the best two weeks of the season are coming. Don't give up on them! Most of the spring hunts are tough but there are bears around. Keep looking in the swamps and for old green grassy roads to still hunt along. The best bear I ever killed was on May 27th at high noon. I was still hunting very slowly up an old closed road and out walked a B&C bear at 65 yards.

Fawns and elk calves are dropping and the big old boars will focus in on areas with calves. That is how I killed the bear I mentioned above......slinking very quietly into a calving area....

 

[dan.kirkpatrick]

ill keep tryin this weekend.