Maine bears

spruce mountain · Post by **spruce mountain** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:46 pm

I have been living through you guys on here for the last few months,finally our training season opened.We only get three weeks this year before the season starts.Here are a few pictures of some bears we treed and some on the baits.

Jason Waterhouse · Post by **Jason Waterhouse** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:43 pm

cool pics thanks for sharing

Vance M. · Post by **Vance M.** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:43 pm

Good job. Nice pics

Ankle Express · Post by **Ankle Express** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:35 pm

Good Job. I'm hearing its another good berry year? Maybe a little wet too? Seeing lots of bear? Just curious for some extra updates. I leave out on the fifth or sixth of next month for my annual trip to the vactionland! Starting to get excited. I'm due a total rain out! Keeping my fingers crossed for a late season drought up that way!

Spanky · Post by **Spanky** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:47 pm

boy do I miss maine this time of year. Country looks the same :lol:

Have you ever tried hanging onion sacks from the tree? We found it keeps the bears around longer and opens up there vitals for the bow hunters.

spruce mountain · Post by **spruce mountain** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:04 am

Thanks guys for the comments,Yea the weather has been terrible this year it poors almost every day.Every thing i own is soaked.We have quite a few berries this year but the driving rain has nocked alot of them off.The bears are realy hammering the baits.Seems to be alot of them around.Good luck when you make your trip up here.Spanky thats a good idea with the onion bags thanks.I ran another bear yesterday it was along day i finaly got the last two dogs off it at7.00 PM.i saw the bear 5 times but seeing it and getting the dogs off it are two differant things.Its alot easyier if you can just shoot it LOL.I tried to get a couple pictures in the mourning but i dont now if they came out.I have to wait untile my daughter gets home to check them out.Icould of gotten some great pictures in the after noon but all i cared about was catching the dogs

spruce mountain · Post by **spruce mountain** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:30 pm

We had a rainy saturday today so I thought I would update my pictures

Rooster Willie Clyde and Gunner were on this one,it wieghed 372 lbs,shot by a 15 year old boy.On the ground.

Gunner Willie and Fanny treed this one,277lbs,shot by a 12 year old boy with a bow.

Gunner and Willie treed on one we let go.Rooster and Clyde arrived late.

This is the bear

This one we shot on the ground with Rooster Gunner Clyde and Duke, It was Dukes first bear,his father is Gunner,his grandfather is Rooster on his mothers side.Hes not quite a year old.The bear wieghed 420lbs.

We treed a sow with two big yearlings,the sow bailed when we got there.The yearlings were almost as big as she was.Gunner Rooster Clyde and Duke treed them.

Another picture of the yearlings.
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chilcotin hillbilly · Post by **chilcotin hillbilly** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:48 pm

Great pictures. that last boar is a real hog. Good job

SECOND NATURE · Post by **SECOND NATURE** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:51 pm

and post some video that i had of the one we let go for you hope you don't mind

hes coming down!!

STUNTMAN · Post by **STUNTMAN** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:33 am

Nice picks dogs are looking good too.

meguide01 · Post by **meguide01** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:39 am

nice pics scott and well is any of the dogs tessa dogs siblings, well i hope to show some photos as we get started with bobcat this year. Randy

beardog-treed · Post by **beardog-treed** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:20 am

I just got back from Maine, and had a great time. The bears were very hard to find late in the season, we did run a few, but they just did not want to tree. We did a lot of Grouse and dog hunting during the week.

spruce mountain · Post by **spruce mountain** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:20 am

Randy I didnt get any out of that litter that made good bear dogs.I do have one that I run on cats. Beardog treed were did you hunt in Maine?The bear were out late here in the western mountains,the baits were hit good right to the end.Your right about the bears being hard to tree though I found the same thing.I blamed it on my dogs being worn out.Here are some pictures from the end of the season.

this is one the hunter missed in the tree and the dogs couldnt tree him again.

this sow has three yearlings,they were steadies at this bait

I thought this was a nice picture in the snow.

This is the last tree of the season,nice sow with a big yearling,we let her go.

This is Lightfoot Clyde a dog I bought from Jess kincaid on the last tree.Hes coming along good I think he is going to make a real nice dog.Bring on cat season.

beardog-treed · Post by **beardog-treed** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:38 pm

I ended up running with Tobey, over on the east coast side. I stayed in Machias

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