Rules you don't know about!! (bear)

[Hunter John]

Are the new changes for both the spring and fall or just the spring season.??

[redd foxx]

I think that identifying your bait would be similar to having a # on a fish hut. For those that don't clean up after the hunt....they can be chased down and held accountable. so, if a C.O. checks a hunter that doesn't have his bait identified....could be a problem. If it is....no problem. After the hunt if there is garbage etc.....problem.

[chris lavoie]

We have 2 new CO's that started this fall in the Dryden area, 5 all together and one they borrow from Ignace. They do have time to enforce the rules.

Rules will be for Fall and a spring hunt if approved.

[Waftrudnir]

With these new rules only bear hunters will be locals and outfitters. They just killed the bear hunt for more than half the bear hunters.

the rules are not to help us hunters to ethically and safely manage our wildlife population - they are made by government to please the general public - over 86% live in urban areas and the vast majority has nothing to do with hunting; so why should we (in their minds)...
they will continue to tweak the rules until more and more will drop out. add the fiscal situation of an increasing number of people and the limited access to land and you know that hunter numbers (and their lobby) will not increase

[Waftrudnir]

NET ZERO! Isn't it so much like a "progressive" government to re-institute a Bear hunt,then,make everything around it so restrictive that it's impossible to accomplish. That's the "old carrot and stick trick" to get votes,isn't it? Gee,whoda thunk that?

don't be so bitter!
they've earned a hug: positive press releases (votes) and don't forget less hunters means less firearms
just another little piece of the big puzzle

[TheProvider00]

5years pilot period they should stick with the current regulations. Then once the 5years is up add more regulations if its required. More regulations I think you'll see a lot less bear hunters and with the bait restrictions I think you tend to see younger bears being shot. Also I am still puzzled on the hanging bait. How high due you hang it if its a 7' bear and your treestand is 20' high vs a 6' bear and your using a ground blind? Makes no sense to me . No guarantee the bear stand up facing away from you. If you can't sex bears its going to take a while for you to so the more bait the better to keep the bear there.

That being said I still want to know if your allowed to spot and stalk bears as well as use calls to bring them in. May seem like a silly question. But if their idea is to hang bait so you can sex the bear when it stands how you going to sex a bear when spot and stalking it or calling it in? Hard to get a bear to turn around and stand for you so you can sex it. Perhaps one should learn the traits of boars vs sows so they can sex a bear without it standing. More important is being able to verify if there's cubs or not.

Like I said. If they implement these regs I predict few bear hunters.

[green_head]

Numerous threads were posted to the EBR site for comment. The comment period has since ended. I'm not sure what use it is but it was the main avenue to voice your opinion.

http://www.oodmag.com/community/show...ent-on-the-EBR

http://bit.ly/1NNiwBo

[rick_iles]

don't be so bitter!
They've earned a hug: Positive press releases (votes) and don't forget less hunters means less firearms
just another little piece of the big puzzle

im gonna puke !!!!!!!

[arclight]

Commissar Wynne, and Komsomol Trudeau.....

im gonna puke !!!!!!!

[trimmer21]

don't be so bitter!
they've earned a hug: positive press releases (votes) and don't forget less hunters means less firearms
just another little piece of the big puzzle

Those two need to get a room..............outta sight.