Big Game Hunting
Wisconsin Bear Hunting
3/24/08 @ 8:41 PM
i got a tag this year for bear hunting and i amm looking for some advice. i am wondering wear i should bait on my land. the last 2 years i have had a friend and a family member hunt the same stand and both have seen bear and got them on the trail camera at the same stand. my dad thinks that i should hunt on the other side of the land which is across a fairly messy swamp. do bears really travel that far and through that much just to get food. any advice is greatly appreciated. thanks. notice the screen name. that is literally the spot that the bear have been seen and that is not a joke. the spot is called bearhill and that is the name of the road we r closest to.
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Still have 2 available spots for Wisconsin 2024 Bear season!
Well establish Baits
Bait sitters only
Hunt the entire season
Well establish Baits
Bait sitters only
Hunt the entire season
Still have availability for Wisconsin 2024 Bear season. Zone C Baits only, hunt the entire season or till you harvest a Bear.
You can partially blame the lower kill rate on the big acorn crop this year. But a comment that has been mentioned many times on the Facebook site and from bear hunters I know is that the bear population is down. Many guys have mentioned hardly any cubs which doesn't bode well for the future. One common complaint is the wolves hanging around bear baits. Bears open up the baits and the wolves run the bears off and eat the bait. Guys are saying wolves ate more bait than the bears at times and that they are pretty sure also that the wolves are liking the taste of greasy bear meat now !!
9/25 I killed a boar on my 13th sit. Dressed 210#. The third bear I had seen.
Talked w/ a friend who runs dogs. He said they had filled 5 of 6 tags w/ 285# the largest. He said one thing they have noticed the past couple years is the bear are much more aggressive, fighting the dogs, which he believes is a result of the bears encountering wolfs on a regular basis. Zone B.
Talked w/ a friend who runs dogs. He said they had filled 5 of 6 tags w/ 285# the largest. He said one thing they have noticed the past couple years is the bear are much more aggressive, fighting the dogs, which he believes is a result of the bears encountering wolfs on a regular basis. Zone B.
Yamatroller - pass through Forest County often , always looks like good buck country in places . I do know a crew near Hiles that does ok in gun season. In my rambling post I did say it doesn’t bother us , meaning even though there are wolves in the area , the deer camp enjoyable atmosphere is there year to year , some good & some terrible years for seeing deer. But the ones who put in their time & don’t sit at bait piles & actually hunt will have a good year . As far as cameras & bait piles , personally I don’t use them. Generally wolves travel , the bigger the woods the more they’ll travel & seen on many cameras , bigger bucks on camera usually are passing through . Bear season I had up 9 different bears at my bait , the 3 hours I hunted saw 3 , so if the wolves were in the area didn’t bother the bears to much for a month. Definitely not a fan of wolves in Wi &Mi , but we don’t let it interfere with our hunt . Any sightings are reported which in time there’ll be a wolf season I’m sure . Good luck to you this fall wherever you hunt
Steelhead, you are one of the lucky ones if you still manage a good deer season with wolves in the area. By us in Forest County on the National Fores the wolves have completely changed things, last year week b4 gun season I took a walk in the area we have hunted for many years and hardly any deer sign but wolf tracks and trails all over the place. We had put a trail cam on one of the few scrapes we found and put a little doe scent out. End of the week all we had was pics of wolves checking the scrape most every day. Trouble is between the Federal protection on the wolves and with the NRB now controlled by Evers and the tree huggers nothing is going to happen to have any wolf season.
We are hunting in zone C, I have run 3 baits on county land for 10 plus years(Clark County From Dam 2 up to to Ball Peak Area and back east), As usually the acorns started to drop and they just stopped hitting. Friend of mine had bear showing up on cameras passing threw between 2 large corn fields threw his woods.(Surprise acorns were a week behind) I put a bait out opening weekend Sunday at 530 PM bears were hitting by 615 PM(I have the trail cam picture to show it.) Between September 10th and 15th we had 8 different bears show up. Sat Tuesday, Wednesday no luck and Friday the wind, weather were perfect and it all came together. Yes that is a Ruger Deerfield Carbine 44 Mag using 265 grain hand loads from a Old guy that reloads near me. Gun was past down from my Mom to my daughter, That one will be in the family for a long time.
P.S. I had more shotter bears in 1 week on 1 bait then my other 3 all summer. Yes I think the wolves have pushed the bears out of the big woods and out further into Farm areas where the wolves are not as thick as the big country woods area. Will be interesting next spring as I plan to bait right away my county land baits as I have 3 sows with cubs this year. I sow has 2 cubs and 2 with 3 cubs. How Many will make it threw? There are bears out there just not were they used to be.
P.S. I had more shotter bears in 1 week on 1 bait then my other 3 all summer. Yes I think the wolves have pushed the bears out of the big woods and out further into Farm areas where the wolves are not as thick as the big country woods area. Will be interesting next spring as I plan to bait right away my county land baits as I have 3 sows with cubs this year. I sow has 2 cubs and 2 with 3 cubs. How Many will make it threw? There are bears out there just not were they used to be.
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