Hunting In Happy Camp, CA

[beardog0003]

Hi, too all. Lippy when you say jr are you refering to Junior? Just wondering cause he hunts with Boone also.

[Matt]

Hello again, We did hunt Cal. This is our second year. we did not get over into the Happy camp area. We hunt farther east. Im not one for crowds.

Thanks to all the nice folks we did meet. I know its alway frustrating to find anyone in the area you like to hunt. Myself included. We, my family, are very appreciative to be able to go to cal. and hunt our dogs. We were also suprized at all the positive attitudes towards hounders. We were overwhelmed at the service station, mercentiles and in the woods. We have took 2 bears home but we left quit a few in the trees. I thank all you Californias who gave us info and help when and where to hunt. We hope we were good guests and cant wait to get back. Thanks again Matt

[lippy]

yES THAT IS WHAT I MENT SORRY

[Liz ODell]

Thanks Matt for leaving a few alive out here...anymore I get pretty upset with the out of area, especially out of state guys, most are guiding (without a forest use permit on top of it) and none of 'em can leave a flippin bear alive in the woods. Exterminators...not hunters is what I call them, because the Gods honest truth is thats what they are.

[beardog003]

Hi everybody, hope all is well. Lippy do you hunt a lot with JR ? I was with Junior for 2 weeks during Thanksgiving in Oregon and was giving him a hard time about how he was known on here and didn't even know it. He also was asking who knew him on here, but he didn't recognize the name Lippy. Well, what a small World, lol . Does he know you by another name maybe?
Take care,
Beardog

[cab]

I know several fellows who have hunted that area the last couple years. If they have harvested any bear, I havn't heard about it.
I know what you are talking about though. We have some locals that think that if it is big enough to climb, it's big enough to kill.

[cecil j.]

Do any of you know of anyone who is hunting here in Happy Camp, CA. We have more bear hunters here this year than ever before! There are some guys from Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah, and of course Cali. I was just wondering if anybody knew any of the guys that are down here.

I hunted ther in the late 70`s with my walkers an a fem. redtick also my name si jack pepper , i knew ben moore an harland maxxwell, joe ubrell who hunted there out of orlines ca I use too live in Horse Creek for a few months and had my runnen dogsx coon hound dogs then in 72-73 erria and left/they dudnt take too dog nen in horse creek ca. i went back too Knights Landing ca ta hell with em/came back in later 70`s with my walkers too hunt two times they stole my preguntt redtick and that was enoughf for me to go back too Orelands the baker ranch rd or too Horse Creek and Happycamp ca.

[cecil j.]

Hi everybody, hope all is well. Lippy do you hunt a lot with JR ? I was with Junior for 2 weeks during Thanksgiving in Oregon and was giving him a hard time about how he was known on here and didn't even know it. He also was asking who knew him on here, but he didn't recognize the name Lippy. Well, what a small World, lol . Does he know you by another name maybe?
Take care,
Beardog

i know lippy talked too him the first time the other day who is jr. if hes from ore the onlyest boys i knowed there ws tommy barns jr., ronnie monroe,


jack

[cecil j.]

Hi, too all. Lippy when you say jr are you refering to Junior? Just wondering cause he hunts with Boone also.

hey beardog 003 my nane is jack oepper/ grew up as jacjie McGilvray of Knights Landing/ I hace tattoed on my upper back arm bear-dog/ it`s in rememberance of ole allawishes (bear dog) clark of plairmo ca. hes gone many years now. i hunted bear with him a larry & Charley Saunders of Plaremore ca. up out of the umpa reservation/got myself bear slaped and the laughfed for some time an said /ya one of the last known knife/bearfightersI think Shebb McDNNIELS WAS ALONG/ i REMEMBER HE WAS ALONG ON THAT TRIP. ARE ANY OF THEM UP IN THAT AREA NOW ?


JACK

[cecil j.]

Hey.. Does anyone know a Dan Deppin( maybe spelled Deppen or Depen? Or something like that.. He was from N CA and I have 3 dogs that go back to his stuff... Used to be a government hunter I believe...

ya must be talken about dave Falieen back in the 78 erra he did detramation work an taggen lions for the dept. i think he lived with his parents too the north towards the sierras but out in this valley with hardly any trees. can`t think of the small town there /nice guy,young for his job, but respected. he belonged too chc . his friend same erra Dan Tishneer had Plotts an was in chc also. I think Faleen was out of lummis/but could be wrong/ if any of this helped? There was a Mike Pippkens of Islaton ca also close sounden too dippen

jack

[cecil j.]

Frog,
I don't know anyone by that name, but my Dad's name is Jim and my cousin's last name is Rhodes and they both live here in Happy Camp, my cousin used to hunt with my dad.
There aren't too many big bears around here right now. Tons of small guys though. There definatly was a decent amount of big ones last year though. I don't know where they all went! Everyone that is here has been doing the same as me.... treeing the crap outa the little ones.

Nora..... Do they have a dark grey flatbed and a red/maroon toyota?? I don't know many of the guys names that are here, just know the trucks.

There is one guy Clarence Stone, he's got washington plates... anybody know him? He runs all plotts, older guy.

clarance stone must be the brother or cousen too Buckey Stone ! I met Buckey several times and beardog Clark hunted with him and introduced me. I met Buckey yrs earler on the ranch he was with ray rodes an gene johnso an they come out too river farms ranch hunten one night and hurd about is 13-14 yr old kid who was hunten solo and training his own dogs/walk hunten all night long on friday an saturday nights . They found me walken up the river levy carryen a single burnner lantern and had a carbide light on my helmett . I didn`t see any dogs in the back of there truck/ come too think about it Dave Fletcher carryed em out there looken me uy ! Bucky was a nice man and had the same blue eyes as I have and they remarked on that.Don`t recall the reason for that but its more of what I remember now in time of that night back in the late 50`s .
jack

[cecil j.]

Jim Rhoads was a lumber man in Happy camp a fishing guide. he use to drop us off above Somes Bar and come back in the after noon and pick us up..he would be in his late 70;s now because I am 73 I lived in Calif 37 years and fished every fall on the klamath and came back to bear hunt in early Feb with my friend on the Rev, [Hopi] He didn't pay to much attention to seasons. use to be a cafe in the back street of H. Camp that really fed you a good breakfast.

Frog

they still gpt the timberieea bar in happycamp/Richard Jones sure use too tear-up that place fighten back in the day/someone finally shot that indian/his brother toccus was a friend of mine and I didn`t much go in there/I worked on the all indian tree planting crew there for a bit and went from horse creek too happycamp too orlines. ben moore,harland maxxwell,joe ubrell, ol curby cassellberry, jd pearson,roger stewart was regular hunters of orlines,happy camp an Beardog clark hunted in the rezz with bucky stone alot. my name then was jacj McGilvray and changed it legally in 80 back too my given name at birth cecil Pepper but retained a midle name of jack/ cause everyone in ca knowed me by jack. The nite hunts I eent by c j pepper in the 80`s and 00-04 in ca and in tn,/ky. been in tn for years now am back.
I miss that river,and people. they were good