Bear 2025

[KonoctisWigwam]

Anyone else hunting bear this season?

I had a deer tag, but North A zone is expired for deer. I hope I can find a bear. I have a 2025 tag and a pig tag as well. My hunting partner had a bruiser on his trail cam up in Upper Lake, on private land.

As long as we're on private land, I'm under the impression that we can take bear (no sows with cubs) until the end of December, but we need to let the CDFW extract teeth.

I see a lot of wildlife after the burns. The last couple nights look perfect, foggy and damp, it's been raining again...today was cloudy but dry. I had a car cover blow off one car at my property, so got it tied on. Looks like another storm is coming in. Given we're mid October, I think we're gonna have quite a few storms blow through...winter is upon us. We need water to survive, and that goes for game also. I don't know how that works for bear, as when they hibernate they turn off their system...fascinating animals... They look so dumpy, the way they swagger around, but seeing one rag a deer or pig gains my respect.

Be safe while hunting bear!

 

[jhonrey]

Personally, I love going out hunting when it's damp and cloudy. There’s something special about that moisture in the air.. And when the fog rolls in, the silence can feel surreal, every little snap of a twig sounds like a thunderclap. After a fire, the land starts to come back to life and you can bet game animals are drawn to that fresh growth. Bears know where the food is, and it feels like nature is hitting the reset button, giving us a brand new chance to figure out where everyone’s moving.

 

[KonoctisWigwam]

Personally, I love going out hunting when it's damp and cloudy. There’s something special about that moisture in the air.. And when the fog rolls in, the silence can feel surreal, every little snap of a twig sounds like a thunderclap. After a fire, the land starts to come back to life and you can bet game animals are drawn to that fresh growth. Bears know where the food is, and it feels like nature is hitting the reset button, giving us a brand new chance to figure out where everyone’s moving.

I like it cool like that also, and it's been like that the past couple days. Today was raining most of the day, so I didn't get over to the range...I'll be hunting with 6.5 PRC and 300 WM. I have 1 box, and 2 boxes, respectively. But I have components to keep me hunting for years. I'm missing a trigger for my 300 WM, so need to get over and find that in my shop. I have everything I need for 6.5 PRC, but feeding is not ironed out.

I was looking over the CDFW site, and I think I have a place I want to try. The Redbud Trail Head, off highway 20, there's parking right by the highway, and it looks fairly close to get to the creek. That area is known for pig, per the CDFW site. That's about 30 minutes from my house, so hope it could be an afternoon hunting spot. That's in the Cache Creek Wilderness area. About 10 miles east is the Judge Davis Trail Head, but that area doesn't look to have a good of parking, and it looks a heck of a lot steeper to get to the creek. I'm primarily going there to look for pig, but there are black bears in the area, and I have a tag, I would take any legal bear (i.e,. no sows with cubs).

The other area I'm looking at is North Cow Mountain, the shooting range is closed due to fire danger (as it rains for the past couple days). I think I can park at the shooting range and hike down the trail, but it's steep down to the creek. This area is noted for deer, and deer season is closed in North A zone.

I don't know if I can get out with my contractor or not, he's got a nice bear on his trailcams on private property, up around Snow Mountain in Upper Lake. I have a few options, but pigs are the best, in regard to having unlimited harvest, either sex, hunt ALL year. A pig tag is an incredible deal here in California.