California bears feeding patterns

[westernwahounds]

I am having trouble getting dialed in on what exactly the bears are taking advantage of for feed in Northern Cali. I hit the best spots I could find for acorns, but it seems like the only spots that I could stike a bear or find a track was in the straight up rocky cliffs/ trees with no roads (which had no feed at all) where they had dropped over the ridge into. You guys using climbing gear to get to these trees between burney and mccloud or what!? Maybe it was just this rain weather the end of this last week keeping them out of the feed areas there. I did manage to get after a little bugger that didn't want to tree out in the Hayfork area on saturday that wore out my fat dogs in a hurry. I will be back with hopefully more knowledge and fresh dogs with good feet in a few weeks and give it another shot if the weather is good and my boss will let me out. Anybody have any advice or constructive criticism???? I am open to anything helpful! I hope everybody else is having a great season.

[Arkansas Frog]

this time year did you try Trinty,Klamath and Scott Rivers,dead salmon. BEAR.

[westernwahounds]

I have not hunted out there yet. Also, I saw your profile mentions arkansas, I ran into another northern cali hunter named scott who was originally from arkansas. I can't remember his last name off the top of my head.

[fallriverwalker1]

you said you hunted hay fork try going a little further weat to southfork mtn look for the chinka pins should be loaded you'll find bears there used to catch a lot of bears in that country . www.fallriverwalker.com

[westernwahounds]

I saw that on the map, but it looked like it may be a little rugged by how close the ol' contour lines were. I kind of puss out sometimes when I am hunting by myself. I don't have anyone to move the truck around to the bottom of the canyon to pick me up on a lower road or nothing.

[livetohunt]

You might want to try the east side of the Valley. I hunted up in that country your hunting last year. We never did get into good numbers of bears only other hunters by the truck load. This year I'm hunting the eastside and we run atleast one every time out. If you can only hunt the westside might try over by Madriver its some hard country but good numbers of bears and the roads are there.

[westernwahounds]

when you say the east side of the valley, are you talking about the area around big bar creek, or like that kingsbury gulch area? I liked that kingsbury area, just didn't have the fresh sign that it did two years ago when I was there.

[livetohunt]

I mean as in eastsaide of the valley. Look at a map of the state everything east of I-5 is the eastside. From Hwy 97 to Hwy 50 is all good country.

[westernwahounds]

gotcha. If you california guys ever went to northern idaho, you wouldn't leave. Anybody who enjoys hunting in that steep nasty stuff would be in paradise over there. You can leave you mountain climbing gear at home and not worry about losing your dogs for days in canyons. thanks for the tips, and hopefully I can get one more crack at them if I can get out of work and make another trip down there.