Alberta spring bear HELP

[DGY]

We drove lots last spring thinking we would get into one, but nada! The year before didn’t drive half as much and could have shot 3-4. So this spring will be like 2 years ago, spot and stalk, sit where you can glass hill sides, when you see something that is what you want stalk it. It might not be easy… but it will be gratifying to get a bear that is not a dump bear or highway bear. Oh and up here we can’t bait for anything really.

 

[track]

Why?

All the areas he has said he has hunted are loaded with bears. Why go all the way to SL?

And yes, I’ve killed lots of bears, including up at Slave Lake.

I cannot recall the OP mentioning Slave Lake; if he did, possibly not hunting the right area to connect. I gave great advice where to hunt.

 

[DGY]

Why?

All the areas he has said he has hunted are loaded with bears. Why go all the way to SL?

And yes, I’ve killed lots of bears, including up at Slave Lake.

Why not? Sometimes you need to change scenery to find what you are looking for, it becomes “your spot”. If you are lucky in an area you tend to be going back to that area… I know that is what I do for most of my hunting!

 

[crazy_davey]

I cannot recall the OP mentioning Slave Lake; if he did, possibly not hunting the right area to connect. I gave great advice where to hunt.

And all the areas he’s already hunting are great for bears too. No need to go to all the way to Slave Lake.

 

[track]

And all the areas he’s already hunting are great for bears too. No need to go to all the way to Slave Lake.

Ok, I quess you can tell the OP, "where not to go hunting."

 

[crazy_davey]

Ok, I quess you can tell the OP, "where not to go hunting."

What a stupid comment. I told the OP that all the areas he’s already hunting hold lots of bears. How is that telling him where not to go hunting? Don’t bothering answering…

Same old track.

 

[Raton57]

My first bear hunt I asked a friend where to go and he gave me directions and I followed them to a T and there was a sow and two cubs there and ran into a boar latter a few hundred yards . This was in the Porcupine Hills . Other place was East of the highway at Chain Lakes and my biggest was on the west side of Chain Lakes. But you have to put time in also. Also south facing slopes down there have bears if you put enough time.

 

[Desjard]

Just pounding the rig roads?

Yeah, the ditches green up quickly and bears love it and you can clearly see bear crap and prints on the roads. Evening drives will produce animals