EARLY-BIRD BRUINS

BEAR HUNTING IN SEPTEMBER PRESENTS ITS OWN SET OF UNIQUE CHALLENGES. HERE’S HOW TO OVERCOME THEM.

By Bob Humphrey

It’s the silence that you first notice. Initially it’s just a feeling that something is different, but you can’t quite put your finger on what it it. The realization arrives slowly, like a Polaroid photo coming into focus: the crickets! That constant, monotonous din you had dismissed as background noise as you sat on your stand has stopped and the woods are dead quiet. That’s how you know there’s a bear nearby, and you fight to contain yourself, moving only your eyes so as not to give away your presence. You rarely hear a bear moving through the woods. When you do, it’s either a sow with reckless cubs or a big boar alerting others to his approach. Otherwise, these black forest ghosts can move without sound, even on the stillest of…

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Game & Fish East (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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