Bear Bums – Bear Hunting

There are subtle differences between black bear tracks and grizzly bear tracks. Knowing how to distinguish between the two will definitely help if you are hunting in an area that may have both types of bears. After you’ve looked at a few examples you should have no problem identifying which is black and which is grizzly.

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By far the easiest distinguisher for me are the length of the claws. I remember when I saw my first brown bear track on the coast of Alaska. It was in some wet clay on a river bed and my dad pointed out the length of the Read the rest of this entry »

Here are a couple of bear hunting tips regarding the ocean and tides. This will be helpful if you happen to be doing your black bear hunt with a boat and are subject to the Alaska tides.

A huge part of our Alaska bear hunts is the tide. Part of the reason that we chose the Salmon Lake Cabin on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska is because there is no tide on the lake….obviously. We had looked at other cabins in the Petersburg, Alaska area including, Big John Bay Cabin and the Tower’s Arm Cabin

which would have been great for a fall Alaska bear hunting experience, but the low tides would not allow a float plane to land on the date we had to leave. It would actually be possible, but the pilots and biologists in the area strongly recommended against it. Read the rest of this entry »

I mentioned briefly in a previous post that two years ago a group of five of us set out on a self guided black bear hunt in Petersburg, Alaska. We chose Petersburg as our black bear hunting location for multiple reasons, one of which was because there is a high population of black bears in the area and no brown bears to worry about.

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We were actually about a 40 minutes’ boat ride from the town of Petersburg in a little cabin so called Breiland Slough on Kupreanof Island. This was a spring black bear hunt and it extended from the end of April into the beginning of May. Turns out that many bears were still in hibernation because of an extended winter. Seasons are hard to judge especially when planning so far ahead of time! Read the rest of this entry »

Since we have already discussed the type of rain gear and hip waders to wear, let’s move on to the type of shoes that I’m thinking about. Cabelas’ Ultralight Wading Boot is very appealing to me for a few reasons:

-very lightweight.

-more inexpensive than others we researched.

-one of the top selling brands according to Cabelas’ experts.

As I’ve discussed, I’m not a fisherman, so I don’t want to spend a ton of money on a felt soled shoe that I won’t use very often. At the same time, I need a shoe that will last and not leave me in a bad situation on the bear hunt. The Ultralight Wading Boot seems to provide what is needed! Read the rest of this entry »