--- JUNE 3 ---
We just took down the last of our bait stations for the spring. It was a fun season, especially with the addition of the trail cameras. I'm already looking forward to next spring, and we have some ideas to make things even better. We'd like to thank all of our bear hunters. We had a good time and we hope you did too. Here are the final pictures of the spring. I just figured you would all enjoy seeing some of the bears that will still be around next year.

Here's Toddzilla snubbing his nose at us after all of our hunters had gone home. He's coming to the bait WAY before dark!




Wolverine Bear


Our sixth bait finally started getting hit consistantly. It was just a sow and cub, but it's better than nothing.









--- MAY 26 ---
Well, tonight was the last night of the "Wisconsin Boys" hunt. They had a good night on the stand, but it was bittersweet. Todd got a shot at the new big blonde bear. We spent a few hours last night and a few hours the next morning looking for him before they had to fly out of Boise, but we never found any blood or hair or anything... We're not sure what happened. We spent a long time doing a body search after they left, but never found a thing. We even tried running him with the hounds, but there were so many other bears in the area, we couldn't single him out... too bad.

Craig got a shot at a nice chocolate bear, but after we looked at it on video we concluded that he shot low. Jeff traded his bow for George's 30-30 the last night and saw lots of bears, but he didn't want to shoot a black one. They had a good hunt with lots of opportunities, but no dead bears (we hope).

"Toddzilla" and "Toad" will live another year. Check back next year at the same time, and if you are interested in a bear hunt, check out our bear page on the site. Our bear hunts are already starting to book up, so book fast!

--- MAY 25 ---

Chocolate bear.






This little chocolate bear is colored like a wolverine.




This is a new bear and he's awesome! A big blonde. He has everybody excited.






This little black bear is going to be cool looking when he grows up.


Pretty nice black bear.


Chocolate or red bear. Not sure which.


Moon Bear

--- MAY 24 ---
Well, we just went up and got the pictures from last night and it turns out that the bear Todd passed up was big... really big. Here he is.

Here's the bear that Todd passed last night. He says he'll shoot him tonight... I should hope so. I think we'll name him "Toddzilla".


Todd said that when the bear was on the other side of the barrel, he still could have shot him. You can see why in this picture. You can't even see the barrel behind him. HUGE!


I let the trail camera take a picture of me standing right in front of the barrel and I super-imposed my image over Toddzilla's. You can see here how big he really is. He is between 41 and 43 inches tall at the shoulders!


Here's the blonde shouldered little chocolate bear. Compare him to that big one. Wow.


I think he smells trouble.


Big chocolate sow and her cub.




Little cinnamon bear.


There are two big bears in this picture.


Looks like a pretty good bear.


This is a nice blonde bear and there's a second bear in the background too.


Here's the other bear that was with him... not too shabby.


Is this a new bear or not? I'm just not sure. It seems to have a blonde tint and there hasn't been one that color at this bait.


Cubs

--- MAY 23 ---
No bears for the "Wisconsin Boys" again tonight. Todd passed up a good black bear (the one fighting with the Red Bear in the pictures below), but he wants a colored one. Jeff had cubs again, and Craig had one come in just at dark that he couldn't determine because it was too late.

This is the big bear that Todd passed on. This was taken just when he passed on him.


Here's a better picture of him.


Chocolate bear.


Check out Toad peeing on a log. Just like a dog. Pretty cool, I didn't know bears did that.


See where he peed on the log?


Blonde bear.


I think this is the rubbed male. It looks like he is either running away from something or getting ready to fight something.


The sow and cubs that keep bothering Jeff.


This is the chocolate sow at Jeff's bait that has three cubs.


Not a great picture, but it looks like a pretty good bear.


Here's "Toad" again.


I wish he would come in before dark.


Extreme close up.

--- MAY 22 ---
Tonight was the second day on the stand for the "Wisconsin Guys" They haven't shot anything yet, but all three of them have had opportunities both nights.

Todd passed a really nice bear tonight. I think he'll shoot him if it comes in again after looking at it on the video (I'll try to get the video uploaded if I get the time). Jeff keeps getting pestered by a big sow with three cubs, but there is a nice boar visiting his bait. Craig just hasn't seen one he wants yet. A huge chocolate boar is hitting his bait just after dark every night.

Ghetto Booty and her cubs.


Here's Ronnie again. It turns out he's not orphaned and there are actually three cubs in his litter. He is the boldest of the three.


Not sure which bear this is.




A new blonde bear with what looks to be a cool black bear with a big white mark on it's chest.


This bear is an absolute TOAD! We're pretty sure he's chocolate. We've been calling him black for the past few days.


This is the big red bear... I think.


Nice bear


This is a good bear. Look how long he is. It looks like he may be starting to rub though.


Nice black bear.


Look at how long this bear is. Big.


This is a good looking chocolate bear.


There are two bears in this picture, a black one and the one in the background is either chocolate or red.

--- MAY 21 ---
We finally got pictures from our last bait, and there are some big bears hitting it. Cool! Bad news is that it is snowing and windy and cold. I'm glad it's not me on the stand tonight.

This looks like a nice bear. He is either dark chocolate or black. Not sure.


cubs


chocolate bear


chocolate bear

--- MAY 20 ---

Chocolate bear.


Big chocolate sow and a cub.









--- MAY 19 ---









Little chocolate bear up a tree.


We didn't get a picture of the bear who treed him.

--- MAY 18 ---

Sean Remier shot this nice chocolate bear at 9:00 tonight. It was his first bear and he passed up a different chocolate bear the day before. It's not a huge bear, but he is really pretty.










This is a new bear. She's a pretty little red sow with a red cub. She looks like "Moon Bear", but her chest mark is bigger.


This is a nice chocolate bear.


Same bear a few hours later.


Different bear. Too bad he's rubbed.


Look at this monster! The bottome of that blue mark on the tree is up to my hip.






Nice chocolate bear.


Just sows and cubs hitting this bait.








The same chocolate boar that comes in every night. Usually a great big black bear hits this bait, but he didn't show up last night.


Little chocolate bear. Sean Retmier passed this bear up a few nights ago.


Here he is again later in the afternoon


This could be Ghetto Booty, but I think it's a different chocolate bear.

--- MAY 17 ---
We got better pictures of the new blonde bear last night. It's really pretty, but not very big.

We think this chocolate bear is pretty big, but we don't have a barrell at this bait so it's hard to tell for sure.




Ghetto Booty and one of her cubs.


He showed up again last night.


Same bear.


Wish there was a closer tree for our camera at this bait. This bear looks pretty good, but I can't tell for sure.


Standoff. The close bear looks pretty good.


Ghetto Booties cubs.


Chocolate bear. He came in early in the morning.


This is probably the same bear, but he came in again an hour later.


Here is that blonde bear. Looks more chocolate here, but I think that it's just because it''s a little ways away from the flash (not sure though). Unfortunatley it's not very big, but it'll grow!


See how much more blonde he looks here? Awesome bear! See the other bear standing up in the background?


Scruffy little chocolate bear.


Puny little reddish bear.

--- MAY 16 ---
We had another good night of bear baiting last night. The baits are still getting slammed! EIGHTY pictures between all of the baits! It also seems like the sows and cubs have stopped coming in to most of the baits. It's mostly older boars now, so that's super cool. Things just keep getting better as the month goes on. The only bad news so far is that we have had an early spring and we've noticed that a few bears have started rubbing already. Hunters are going to have to be careful and check the bears out for rubs. We got pictures of a new blonde bear last night too. He is beautiful!

The first bear of the year met his demise tonight. Master Archer Ron Elkin got this chocolate bear at around 6:00 out of a ground blind at thirteen yards This was his first bear and he was excited.


Ron giving a "thumbs-up" to our trail camera right after he shot his bear. I'd say he's a happy guy.




This nice chocolate boar comes in every night. Usually before dark.


This bear has a cool mark on his chest. Looks like a pretty nice bear.


I think this is Moon Bear and her cub again. We haven't seen her for a while.


Here's the new blonde bear! Cool huh? There is a darker bear standing next to the tree in the background.


A pretty chocolate bear, but not very big.


This looks like a pretty nice chocolate bear.


I don't know if this is the same bear or not. We'll just assume it's different. ;^)


This is probably the same one.


Looks like one of our blonde bears has rubbed pretty bad. Dissapointing, but he'll be bigger next year.


This is a new bear. Looks like a cool color. (I think this is the one Ron shot)


This nice chocolate bear is new to this bait. Awesome! We've just had a sow and a cub on this bait until last night.






This bear was new last night. We think he is dark chocolate, but he may be black.

--- MAY 15 ---
Lots of pictures tonight. I guess that is what 1000 pounds of bait per week will get you.







Nice red boar.


This is a big black or dark chocolate bear.


Standoff! This is a cool picture. Do you see them both?


Blonde bear.


Blonde bear.


Good looking red bear.


This is a new chocolate boar.


He looks pretty nice.


Another new bear. This one looks either black or dark chocolate.


This is probably him again.


A nice black bear. Looks like he's rubbed though. Too bad.


Check out the "V" on this one's chest. Cool.


Not sure if this is him again or a different bear.


Looks like a big bear.


Tough to tell what this one is, but it's either red or blonde.


This is a bad picture, but it's a new bear at this bait.

--- MAY 14 ---
I've been away from a computer for a couple of days (busy feeding all the bears), so here are the last few days' worth of pictures. We just got the Internet set up at the lodge, so we'll be able to update from there now instead of having to drive home to my computer.

I cropped this one, but it's pretty cool.


Blonde bear looking rubbed.


This is a nice bear.


This bear keeps a weird schedule.


This is a good bear.


He looks scared of something to me... probably a big boar coming in.


Mr. Blondie with a big chocolate in the background.

MAY 13



There is evidence of a big bear on this bait (tracks), but this is the biggest one we've gotten a picture of so far.


This bear looks decent.


This is a big sow. We call her "Ghetto Booty".


She's checking out the goodies I poured on the tree.


Ghetto Bootie's cubs.

--- MAY 12 ---

This blonde bear comes into the bait early in the morning sometimes.


That's a big chocolate bear on the right. You have to look close to see him.


The chocolate boar scared him up a tree.


See the bear in the background?


A chocolate sow and her two cubs.


One of our hunters actually passed this bear up. Can you believe it? Seriously though, we think he has been orphaned, so hopefully our bait saves him. We call him "Ronnie".

--- MAY 11 ---

This is a big red boar.


Here he is again.


Look at his greasy face from sticking his head in the barrel.


Bobbin' for bear bait.


What's for dinner tonight?

--- MAY 10 ---
We had a rough night for cameras last night. One bait had 23 pictures, but a bear had moved the camera and they were all of the ground. Here are the only decent pictures we got.

Here's one of the culprits who moved a camera. We've got him on our hit list for that little move ;^)


This one looks chocolate to me, but I'm not sure.


Here's mister blondie again. He came later last night.


Don't know if this one is black or chocolate, but he looks like a pretty nice bear.


Two chocolate cubs. These are the first bears to hit this bait. Hopefully a big boar runs them off soon.

--- MAY 9 ---
We finally have it figured out how to set the date and time on these cameras, so after today, they should be correct. Last night we got pictures of a big blonde bear, so that's exciting!

This blonde bear put on quite a show. We got lots of pictures of him. He's just the sort of bear people dream of shooting. Last year, we killed a nice blonde bear off of this same bait, so it's in the genes here.


Here he is again. Check out how his legs are chocolate. Cool bear.


Same bear again. He's so cool, I can't help but put all of his pics up.


We can't tell for sure, but we think this is a monster. Look at the far left side of the picture. He's also the first black colored bear we've gotten a photo of. (there are other bears that may be black, but they came in the dark so it's hard to know for sure)


This is a pretty good bear too (it might be the same bear as the one above). If it's a different bear, then he's the second black one we have so far.

--- MAY 8 ---
Right now, five of the baits are getting hit hard. We're just learning how to use the new cameras, so hopefully the pictures just keep getting better. Keep checking back, we'll be updating the pictures every other day or so. We couldn't figure out how to change the time and date on a few of the cameras, so hopefully we figure that out as we go.

I think this bear is blonde, but it may be what we call red.


This is a pretty red bear with cool markings. See the other red or blonde bear at the barrel? I think she is a sow with a cub. Too bad, cause she's cool looking. I think we'll name her "Moon Bear" because of the cresent moon mark on her chest.


This is a big chocolate boar.


He's a nice boar.


This may be a black colored bear, but odds are he's chocolate.


Blonde?

--- MAY 7 ---

A sow and two cubs. At least one of them is chocolate.


We think this is a big chocolate bear (small ears).


Pretty hard to tell what this one is... I am pretty sure that it's not very big though.




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