Bigbear wrote:.So Ike is what im saying is come to the books will put you on this bear and will see if the wolf pack can tree him. I will be more than happy to shoot this bigboy behind your dogs if i can ever draw the tag.
I've spent alot of time down in the Book Cliffs since about 1978 I believe, so what is that thirty years? And it's possible you can show me something about the Book Cliffs or hounds or bears, but odds are I've seen most of it, so thanks but no thanks bigbear.
I do remember one trip down to the Books six or eight years ago with a good friend and young hound hunting buddy. We started a really nice boar down in that country you're talking about, it was just east of Dick Canyon and Fatty Canyon and came off that dougway that rolls east into Colorado. That boar was headed west and south and we shipped nine dogs down the tracks just after daylight.
We spent all day trying to get to those dogs and two of our young dogs came back out before dark. You probably know that country, but if the dogs are very far you can't hear them and deciding what canyon they are in i pretty tough, so we never did get to those dogs........
My buddy and I spent the night on the Divide in his truck and everytime I woke up I got out and shot a signal on those hounds, and they were about always in a different location.
Come morning we drove down Dick Canyon and there sat five truck loads of hounddoggers dumping on what a bear track some kid had found up on the ridge, so we stopped. I knew a couple of the guys and we got out and watched as a dozen guys shipped thirty or forty hounds up that hill. One of the guys I knew had his hands on a big red hound and he was trying to decide whether to send his hound into that mess, "do you want some of this," he asked. I laughed and said hell no and you don't have to participate either..........so he shipped that hound.
Some of those dogs would come back and hide under trucks, others went north and still others went south.....
My buddy and I drove back up onto the divide and our hounds were trailing back to the east from off the south side, so I bailed off to met them. After dropping several hundred feet I could hear a a bear tree below (really wasn't a tree because I wasn't under it) that big red boar climbed down while I was still several hundred yards away. There were six or seven dogs on the tree and lots of them were red and blue so I took my radio out while the bear and those hounds left the drainage. And all of the dogs I shot signal on were banging which showed my dogs were among those dogs.......
Shortly after that my buddies two hounds that had been gone all night came off that same ridge where the bear had gone and we captured them, but mine ran back off into long range beeps again...........
There were a couple other guys that had dumped from those five or six trucks coming down the hill and figured it was there dogs that had had that bear up, so I didn't argue and climbed back out to the truck.......
My buddy and I drove back down East Canyon and east over into Prairie Canyon and started up into the dogs. After a few miles we ran into three guys (one of them that guy I knew that dumped into all that shit) coming down the canyon with five dogs, three of which were mine. He claimed they had seen my blue Ryan dog up in the spiring at first when they arrived but he left and was not with them......
So the question came back to me, "how did you dogs get with our dogs?" I laughed and responded I think the question is "how did yall's dogs get with my dogs" cause they left out on a large boar yesterday morning and have been gone every since....that was Saturday evening and thirty-six hours after they had left.........
It was Noon Sunday when my old blue Ryan dog came trotting down his back into Fatty Canyon near where we had turned him loose. He was not soar footed and seemed happy to see me waiting for him.
Now I won't make any claims about what went down south of Dick Canyon over those two days on the south side of the Book Cliffs, but I will say that ol Ike has been there and done that...........
Ike
