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2006 Season Hunt SummaryReturn to 2007 SummaryThis year all the hunters in camp saw bear. Bryan and Micky Morrow from PA started opening evening with a 200 and a 225 pound bear. Matt Thatcher, 17 from New Jersey, tagged a 170 lb sow on the first week of his first bear hunt ever right here at Bear Lane. His father wasn't so lucky with a clean miss. Uncle Jay shot one on Friday. Bear Lane guest Bill Herdon shot his first bear and Bill Sr. was my first hunter to shoot a bear from a ground blind. Larry Long shot a sow with a white blaze on its chest. Ken Shetron from Pennsylvania dropped one right at the barrel (thanks Ken!!). John Lanza shot his fourth bear with me this year. Chris Carr saw a big bear at dark two nights in a row. Chris couldn't get a shot with his bow. The next night he borrowed my 06 and missed a smaller bear (see you next year). Bonzie had better luck and got his bear. Jim made up for the miss last year with a bear off the same stand. While bow hunting Tom saw a bear every night but it was too dark to get a shot. George Carr killed one out of a ground blind. Howard saw lots of bears out of his ground blind but never had a good shot at any of them. Dan Ross from New York made it to Maine for the 4th week, broken elbow and all. Dan saw a bear at a ground blind but again, too dark to shoot. The same happened again and again the rest of the week. Being an excellent sportsman Dan didn't take any iffy shots. Kudos Dan! Boone got his second bear with me this year. Now dog season was another story. The bears this year would not tree. They ran the toenails off the dogs! Jim Rother from Maryland knows that for a fact, every time we got close the bear broke. We would run up the trail just in time to see the bear cross. Boone and Pete chased one across old stream twice, but the bear broke once we closed in. Tom shot that bear later that day, it was a 300 lb bear. We ran a big bear another day. Kevin was able to get a shot at, but missed. We found the dogs the next day. The fifth week finally went our way. We started a bear on Monday with Randy Dennis of Richland PA. The dogs had the bear bayed up, and Bill got the bear to break out of the jack fir thicket. Randy pulled off the perfect shot with his 45-70 as the bear crossed old skid trail. It was a big one weighing in at 465 pounds. 2006 Totals: Saw 73, Killed 17, Lost 2 |
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