Bear Hunting Update
My brother Darryl just talked to Dick Baldwin from Marquette, and he reported that our number one bait site has yet to be visited. Our back-up area has had some activity, but nothing to write home about. Bummer!
Dick is going to the fish market today and try to get a couple hundred pounds of fish scraps. Sometimes the bear can be real fussy, and other times they’ll eat a rubber tire if it has honey on it!
Because we have the third hunt we are in competition with the squirrel and partridge hunters. That can cause problems, but we are on private property, and no one should be small game hunting in our area. Of course those hunters that drew the first and second hunts, plus the hound hunters could have em stirred up a tad.
We are leaving early Sunday morning, so we’ll have about 1-1/2 days to pull out all our baiting expertise, as his hunt starts on the 25th. I still believe our “hot-spot” will pay off-we just need to be patient.
I am going to get to hunt with my grandson Saturday, and hopefully see him take his first deer. I just wish it wasn’t so warm. I’m ready for some cool fall temperatures. No matter we are pretty excited about this coming weekend. When we were scouting two days ago we found a scrape about 40 yards from our blind. This isn’t just a territorial marker, but a huge 5×6 area with the low hanging branches newly broken or bent. It looks like a rut scrape, but that doesn’t make sense at this time of the year. I guess it could be a small “community” scrape, but I’m not sure. What do you deer experts think?
Mike
September 19th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I will tell you this Mike. If you have a scrape that big this early I would be almost willing to bet that a mature buck made it. I think others would agree.
Good luck I’m pulling for ya and the grandson. I wish it was a bit cooler as well but it isn’t stopping me from getting out there with the cousin. I’m going to do some prep work tonight. I can’t wait for the weekend.