First bear of 2009 with hounds

[spruce mountain]

The hound season started today in Maine and I was lucky enough to get on a fat one right off the bat.It ran a little less than 2 miles.They walked it awhile and bayed it up in some blow downs.It was an old sow with some teeth missing,and what teeth were still there were realy worn.The dogs on the bear today were Rooster ,Gunner, Willy and Alley.

[BARTAMENKO]

WHAT KIND OF DOGS DID YOU USE ??
YOUR CAMERA NEEDS THE DATE CHANGED

[Borderpond]

Nice going Spruce Mtn . Good way to start the season. They still hitting the baits good ? How did your bait hunters do ?

[Dads dogboy]

Congrats! Keep us posted as the season progresses! Please post pics of your Hounds!

CJC

[krk hunting]

Great job, keep us posted on how your seasonsgoing.

Kevin

[pat_kemp]

Congrats on the catch looks like a fun day.

[spruce mountain]

Thanks guys.I paid for that good luck today.I treed a porcupine and ran a swamp donkey.LOL Like I always say when your guiding,one day your a hero and the next day your a zero.LOL For some reason I can't change the date on my camera I change it and it just goes back to 01/01/05.I showed a bunch of my dogs on here on my training season post so I didn't want to repeat,but I would be glad to show them on this post.I'll do better dads dogboy. LOL Bartamenko,I you'se some English dogs and some mixed dogs that I have bred.I try to breed the best to the best,a mix of Plott, English.Borderpond ,the baits are still getting hit pretty good.My bait hunters did well I only had 2 guy's that didn't see a bear and they were'nt real serious hunters.No big bears on bait though.

[bob baldwin jr]

Still got a lot of natural food left out there? Those big ones are always nocturnal unless they make a mistake

[spruce mountain]

We got another one today,we should of shot it at 8 oclock this mourning walking across the road in front of us but the hunter didn't shoot.Gunner and Wille walked it all day and they kept stoping it but every time we would try to get in and shoot it would bust out.I put Rooster in about noon time and we managed to get in and shoot it at 2 0clock.The hunter was a 15 year old boy and he made a great shot and put the bear down as the dogs were baying it.The bear weighed 254 live wieght.

Gunner and Rooster and the hunter.

[Ike]

Thanks guys.I paid for that good luck today.I treed a porcupine and ran a swamp donkey.LOL Like I always say when your guiding,one day your a hero and the next day your a zero.LOL

Damn that was funny! Congrats on the catches and kills.........

ike

[Jason Waterhouse]

Nice job

[spruce mountain]

Thanks guys.Ike,sometimes you can go from one to the other in the same day.LOL

[Budd Denny]

Good job, nice bear. Talked to Nelson Cole, he has 5 killed so far. He said the baits are getting hit pretty hard, lots of bear this season.

[spruce mountain]

Thanks Budd,yeah the bear are hitting good.Glad to hear that Nelson is doing well,I ran into him one time during training season but I didn't get a chance to talk to him because we were both chasing hounds.

[spruce mountain]

We treed a nice one yesterday,it was a nice run about 5 miles,Rooster had to swim on the cold trail across a swamp to keep it going.My 2 Lightfoot dogs Bonnie and Clyde, did a real nice job,they lead the race for a while and Bonnie who is just a year old,treed real hard.We heard the dogs catch the bear and then tree it.Wille was also on this one.

This was the bear in the tree.It was real thick around the tree so it was hard to get a good picture.

Rooster, Clyde,Bonnie and wille.

The hunter and his bear.