spring bear 2024

[mr meat]

Baiting begins this weekend!

Going to be buggy!!!!!!!!!

Bugs not that bad yet Jeff

[spcamno]

Good luck to everyone on your Spring hunt!

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

Bugs not that bad yet Jeff

Excellent!

[Species8472]

Flies are starting to come out. Not biting yet but soon. This is on south shore of Nip. Sign that it is time to start bating. So that's what I am doing this afternoon as well as putting boat out.

Earliest I have ever launched boat. Usually still frozen on May 4th.

Getting old. First year I have bait in 20 kg bags. In the past always used 40 kg bags. Can still carry/lift the 40s but my knees don't like it - especially on uneven wet slippery bush trails.

[spcamno]

Flies are starting to come out. Not biting yet but soon. This is on south shore of Nip. Sign that it is time to start bating. So that's what I am doing this afternoon as well as putting boat out.

Earliest I have ever launched boat. Usually still frozen on May 4th.

Getting old. First year I have bait in 20 kg bags. In the past always used 40 kg bags. Can still carry/lift the 40s but my knees don't like it - especially on uneven wet slippery bush trails.

Good luck and look forward to read your hunting story as usual as I really enjoy it and thanks for sharing all your experience with us.

Read from another thread you got a truck and congrats!

Cheers

[FishHog]

Beautiful day yesterday but yes the blackflies were out. More than I expected this early in the year. A little south of Sudbury.
No bear activity for me yet but I’m fattening the coons

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

6 baits set in the Temagami area. Already had 2 visitors at our baits. Only 1 bait doesn't have cellular reception so we could be 3 for 6 hits already... lol

[LowbanksArcher]

I'm giving it a go again this spring. Planning to open up baits on the long weekend. 18-19th, then hunt the first weekend of June. Have 100lbs of kernals popped and made some hardcandy bear lollipops. Some to drop inside a roller barrel to keep bears interested once the food runs out, and some to chain to a tree for them to lick. Going to try a 2 blade head this year. Giving these 2 5/16" Simmons Great White's a try
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[Species8472]

I'm giving it a go again this spring. Planning to open up baits on the long weekend. 18-19th, then hunt the first weekend of June. Have 100lbs of kernals popped and made some hardcandy bear lollipops. Some to drop inside a roller barrel to keep bears interested once the food runs out, and some to chain to a tree for them to lick. Going to try a 2 blade head this year. Giving these 2 5/16" Simmons Great White's a try
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Good luck Mike! I have no doubt you are going to take a 400+ lb bear with your trad gear. Always amazed at your skill using trad gear. Typically i have used rifle but gonna hunt exclusively with the excal this year.

[huntnmachine]

Good luck Mike! I have no doubt you are going to take a 400+ lb bear with your trad gear. Always amazed at your skill using trad gear. Typically i have used rifle but gonna hunt exclusively with the excal this year.

I have taken my last two bears with my excal Joe Using the G5 fixed heads. Bleeds them out in a hurry. Recovery was inside 50 years for both.