update on our bear season in cali

[houndcrazyfool]

well we started off on a record pace putting up several nice bears... Now we havent put up a bear in the past two weekends. We just rig bobcats , could be worse i guess. Atleast it gives me confidence in my rig dogs

[Ike]

Well it sounds like those hounds are tuned up and doing great...stay after those bears and let us know how the rest of the season goes.

ike

[Redwood Coonhounds]

Yep it's slowing down. The weather changing I think has a lot to do with it.

We struck 5 bear in 4 days of hunting. Took two days off, it froze and rained, then went back and got not a single bark for 2 days. Not even on a big ole ruttin' buck. I started thinking the same thing, "dang, I'd be happy if they would strike ANYTHING, at least they'd get excersize"

This weekend was slow. Boxed almost 3 hours. We were about 5 seconds away from putting them away and going home, we were almost to the highway, when they blew up.

I think the animals are like us. They just wanna sleep thru the bad weather and move around later in the day.

[houndcrazyfool]

Yep the pack is pretty well lined out DI with the exception of one of the young dogs, she is better on cats than bear. when we rig a hot bear she runs around like a chicken with her head cut off, just better on cold tracks i guess

you're right about that RC... the more wether we get the worse the bear huntin gets. We have been skunked in three outings in a row now(when it comes to bears), dont get me wrong though i cant complain about running bobcats but its bitter sweet when you have a buddy with a bear tag in his pocket

maybe at the end of season i will post the seasons photos...