Wish Me Luck

[maxx]

I am headed up to Dryden Ontario Sunday morning for my second bear hunt. I went 4 years ago and we fought hot hot weather the entire week. I never saw a bear but my dad killed a nice one.

We are going to a different outfitter this time. My 10 and 12 year old boys and my dad are coming. I am the only one hunting they are going to fish. I will have a boy with me each night switching between the two until I get one down.

The weather looks ok. It was sitting around mid to low 70 projections until today it bumped up to low 80's so I hope that doesn't hurt us to much. Hot but still cooler than last time I went. I don't have huge expectations on bear size. A nice boar over 200 would make me happy.

 

[LCH]

Fun! Sounds like good times ahead.

 

[7mm08mo]

Good luck!!

 

[el unit]

Good luck! Please post some fishing and hunting pics after the trip.

 

[maxx]

About half way done. We have seen bears all but one sit. I have been hunting mornings and nights because I only have 4 days total and they have been active in the morning.

First morning we saw a shooter bear at 80 yards. He was the first bear I have seen in the wild so I didn't really know he was that good. Also I am hunting with a bow so I wouldn't have been able to shoot him anyway.

That night we didn't see anything. It was pretty warm.

The next morning we had a young boar come in. Ate for about 20 minutes then left.

Last night we had good action for about the last hour and half. A small bear came in a little and ran off. He was pretty nervous. Then 5 minutes later another small one came in and proceeded to eat 5 gallons of popcorn.

This morning the same young boar came. We check the trail camera last night and a nice bear came in around 1:44 on Tuesday. The bait was gone yesterday between the morning sit and the night sit but the camera is crappy so it didn't take a picture for some reason.

We are going to head out here in a little bit. The good part is both my boys have seen bears up close in the wild. I have today and tomorrow to hunt yet. The little bear is going to look appealing tomorrow morning if he comes back in.

 

[esracerx]

More tender...

 

[Addicting]

Good luck, hopefully the biting flies are not that bad and the boys end up with some great memories.

 

[JB101]

I am headed up to Dryden Ontario Sunday morning for my second bear hunt. I went 4 years ago and we fought hot hot weather the entire week. I never saw a bear but my dad killed a nice one.

We are going to a different outfitter this time. My 10 and 12 year old boys and my dad are coming. I am the only one hunting they are going to fish. I will have a boy with me each night switching between the two until I get one down.

The weather looks ok. It was sitting around mid to low 70 projections until today it bumped up to low 80's so I hope that doesn't hurt us to much. Hot but still cooler than last time I went. I don't have huge expectations on bear size. A nice boar over 200 would make me happy.

Good Luck! Should be a whole mess of bears in Dryden... Keep us posted!

 

[duckhunt]

Good luck. Looking forward to the story.

 

[maxx]

I don't have a lot of good pictures downloaded yet.

I ended up shooting a smaller bear on Thursday afternoon. I hunted the morning with my younger boy and we had the same bear I ended up killing walk in. He ate and bolted off.

My older boy and I went back in around 12. A bear had been hitting the bait in between sits and I was thinking that it may be a bigger bear. We were right, the little bear came in around 1:40 and then got scared off by the bigger bear. The problem was he didn't come closer than 80 yards.

We gave him 2 hours to come in and he never did. I have a feeling he was a smart old bear that was coming in after we left. At 4:00 the smaller bear made his way back in. I had told myself I would shoot him Friday morning on the last day of the hunt. I ended up making a decision to shoot him that night. At that point we had 25 hours sitting in the same stand. I wanted to get some time fishing the last day.

Over all it was a great trip. The way the dates work we cut our selves short by only having 4 days to hunt. With only having 4 days we were hunting mornings and nights and putting a lot of time in the stand. I wish I would have had more time to hunt.

 

[JB101]

Well that's the game we play, you definitely put the time in. Sounds like a great trip nonetheless and congrats on the bear... How was the fishing? Bring back any 'eyes?

 

[maxx]

Well that's the game we play, you definitely put the time in. Sounds like a great trip nonetheless and congrats on the bear... How was the fishing? Bring back any 'eyes?

Fishing was pretty good. The first few days we found a spot that we could jig eyes and it was pretty consistent. They shut off the last few days but then we got into them trolling a little a long with pike.

We brought back our 4 each for my dad and I. Most of the ones we caught were 14-16" fish nothing huge.

 

[publichunter1]

Congrats on what sounds like a fun trip!

 

[Jcs271]

Pictures?