canada Hunt 2011
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:10 pm
Just got back last week from our hunt in Onterio. We really had a good hunt & pretty decent dog work.
Got there Sat. morning, checked in, got liscenses, & headed for our cabin to drop our gear & unload dogs. Loaded a few dogs up & we took off looking for bear sign. Was not long we dumped on a track & had out first bear treed. We let it down & re ran it & the bear stayed on the ground for a few bay ups & then treed again. A good friend Jon harvested his first bear weighing 138# dressed. This bear also put a few holes in our dogs.
I should have kept a log of this because they all run together. One place we turned all young dogs loose & my Idaho Spud dog(got from Chris Leyden) split off & treed a yrlg. bear. We let that one go. Another track Andy turned 4 young dogs loose & they made some big loops & treed a sow with a cub & a boar up the same tree. We harvested the boar weighing 160# dressed.
Found a really good track on our bait, only problem they had about 4 bear that came into it. We found where it left & Andy put ole Trapper (12 yrs. old) on it hoping he would stay on the bigger track. He trailed out & about 45 minutes we heard him jump the bear. It took us about a hour & 1/2 & we got the posse into him. This bear would bay & run. Andy got in there close a couple of times & he would break. I got in within 12 ft. but did not have a shot. Finally the bear turned & saw me & ran right up a tree. Dogs did outstanding & had quite a few holes in them but they all stayed with it. This bear stayed on the ground for about 5 hours. A guy named Mike from Wisc. harvested this bear with it weighing 268# dressed.
Ran another bear & treed & we thought was a boar but ended up being a 195# sow dressed. Mark harvested this one.
Treed another that only ran for about 1/2 a hour & we harvested that one too.
Also got outrun one day. Another afternoon we started a bear around 6:00 pm & finally caught the dogs off a little after dark.
I forgot my camera. Jon had his but no memory card. Mike brought his but kept forgetting to bring it along. Oh well, that is the way it goes sometimes.
Got there Sat. morning, checked in, got liscenses, & headed for our cabin to drop our gear & unload dogs. Loaded a few dogs up & we took off looking for bear sign. Was not long we dumped on a track & had out first bear treed. We let it down & re ran it & the bear stayed on the ground for a few bay ups & then treed again. A good friend Jon harvested his first bear weighing 138# dressed. This bear also put a few holes in our dogs.
I should have kept a log of this because they all run together. One place we turned all young dogs loose & my Idaho Spud dog(got from Chris Leyden) split off & treed a yrlg. bear. We let that one go. Another track Andy turned 4 young dogs loose & they made some big loops & treed a sow with a cub & a boar up the same tree. We harvested the boar weighing 160# dressed.
Found a really good track on our bait, only problem they had about 4 bear that came into it. We found where it left & Andy put ole Trapper (12 yrs. old) on it hoping he would stay on the bigger track. He trailed out & about 45 minutes we heard him jump the bear. It took us about a hour & 1/2 & we got the posse into him. This bear would bay & run. Andy got in there close a couple of times & he would break. I got in within 12 ft. but did not have a shot. Finally the bear turned & saw me & ran right up a tree. Dogs did outstanding & had quite a few holes in them but they all stayed with it. This bear stayed on the ground for about 5 hours. A guy named Mike from Wisc. harvested this bear with it weighing 268# dressed.
Ran another bear & treed & we thought was a boar but ended up being a 195# sow dressed. Mark harvested this one.
Treed another that only ran for about 1/2 a hour & we harvested that one too.
Also got outrun one day. Another afternoon we started a bear around 6:00 pm & finally caught the dogs off a little after dark.
I forgot my camera. Jon had his but no memory card. Mike brought his but kept forgetting to bring it along. Oh well, that is the way it goes sometimes.