bears and berry crop

[NDGUY]

  Anybody have any info on the berries, cranberry, hazel nuts, acorns. etc... in N. MN planning on bear hunting and just wondering. We hunt every year and the less berries the better we do. Thanks

[deadeye]

I don't know about the northern part but I was out last Saturday in the central part.  I didn't see a lot of raspberries but the hazel nut crop looked good.

[Joe@deerhunters]

Let's just say I am glad I did not draw a tag....... Tons of hazel nuts, which may be a competition problem come baiting and hunting time.  Berries of all kinds are abundant also. They will be healthy for sure.

I am out of Grand Rapids.

[22lex]

NDGUY

I was up fishing at our cabin by Mille Lacs, and tried asking a few locals what the berry crop was like. Well, I didn't get much of an answer from them either because they bear hunt, or they didn't know. I will more than likely find out next weekend when I am up there.

What zone are you hunting?

[rem]

anyone ever use pudding for bait I got 98 gal of chocolate

[NDGUY]

25 been going there for 9 years, but this year we are moving to the n. west a bit towards crane lake but still going to bait the old favorites, as you might know 2 yrs ago it was a bitch lots of berries etc... and no bears for us that yr.thanks for the help in asking around it means alot

[NDGUY]

be careful choc.if given in lg. amounts can make them sick  (get the sh-ts) but if its mixed w/other things its ok in gen. ya its good stuff. we always try and offer them 4 diff. types of food. base grain/dog food/grease, bread/donuts , candy (choc) frosting,fruit/veg. and some meat/fat and let them tell us what they like

[rem]

we are going south of cloquet quota and non anyone have any knowledge of the area

[22lex]

Did anyone get out and set up their bear baits?

I set up two stations that are located in pretty sound areas away from the crowds, but all the scouting I did for forage led me to believe the bears had picked through all the berries that were in the area. There weren't many oak groves where I was situated, but the one bait site I set up pretty much got destroyed by a smaller bear when I checked and re-baited it Sunday afternoon.

[NDGUY]

going to set up baits this week-end, then not until the following week-end then stay and hunt for a week, thanks for the berry info, from all I've heard sounds like an early crop and gone by now and where we hunt not many oaks or hazel nuts so we'll see

[deadeye]

Last week I checked an area in the central part of the state.  Lots of red oak acorns and hazel nuts.  Acorns are green and still in the trees.  Not going to fall for some time yet.