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[quote name="jakobeast"]



A hunter killed it. Thats what they do. I know there are rules for hunting bears up there, but i dunno what they are. mI assume you can only shoot single bears.[/quote]



Most assholes up there hunt "baited" Bears. Real Sporting when you've been luring the Bear there to feed for months.

 

[phranchk]

[quote name="jakobeast"]



I have fail safe spinners for Northern. Can't keep 'em off. We usually go in September. Cooler weather, Eye's NORMALLY way more active, and we can almost watch the trees change colors. It is beautiful. The Smallies we ran into were great fighters. Super fat too. Like, me fat. chunky as hell. The fella that came up with us got a 20 inch bass, and that thing weighed in at a bit over 5 lbs.



I dont eat fish, unless I catch it and all that. The Northern is pretty damn good. Boney, you betcha. Ya just gotta rake it and eat slow.



We saw a ton of Bald Eagles, and watched one swoop down and nab a fish of some kind. Amazing.[/quote]

There's an easy way to filet a northern and get the y-bone out. Once you get the hang of it you'll be eating boneless northern filets.

 

[jakobeast]

[quote name="R K"]



Most assholes up there hunt "baited" Bears. Real Sporting when you've been luring the Bear there to feed for months.[/quote]



They do the baiting up there. 100 pounds of oats, grease, some other crap. They would have some molasses that they would warm with sterno cans as well.



They recently installed some cameras that are motion activated. They have way more bears then they thought. While we were up there they found they had 5 separate sows with about 13 cubs, and had also identified 7 different males. The areas that they hunt is getting close to over population, from what they said. I could have been lied to, but I can believe them. I am not defending them, as baited hunting, canned bird hunting and all that is silly in my mind.



I will say I think the chick helped gut and skin the bear. I dunno if she kept the meat, but I hope she did. I don't understand the killing for trophy thing.

 

[jakobeast]

[quote name="phranchk"]

There's an easy way to filet a northern and get the y-bone out. Once you get the hang of it you'll be eating boneless northern filets.[/quote]



I have seen that done, and I unfortunately dunno how to do it. Niether does my Pops, at least not without removing a shit to of meat.

 

[Guest]

[quote name="jakobeast"]



They do the baiting up there. 100 pounds of oats, grease, some other crap. They would have some molasses that they would warm with sterno cans as well.



They recently installed some cameras that are motion activated. They have way more bears then they thought. While we were up there they found they had 5 separate sows with about 13 cubs, and had also identified 7 different males. The areas that they hunt is getting close to over population, from what they said. I could have been lied to, but I can believe them. I am not defending them, as baited hunting, canned bird hunting and all that is silly in my mind.



I will say I think the chick helped gut and skin the bear. I dunno if she kept the meat, but I hope she did. I don't understand the killing for trophy thing.[/quote]





That's a felony anywhere in the US I've ever been. They have a Grizzly season up there too. The US does not, they are protected. There's a good reason the Great Plains Grizzly's are extinct. The US took the Wolf off the protected species and had a season for the first time in years last year. This year a Judge in Montana put them back on.



Again it's scum bag hunting. Let me lure this thing here for a couple of months so he comes every day for food, then shoot him/her.



I'm all for hunting, but type of hunting is NOT sport. There are usually a couple of Black Bears roaming around the camp ground at night when we are in Manitoba. Grizzly are farther west in both the US and Canada.







Scum bags!

 

[jakobeast]

[quote name="R K"]





That's a felony anywhere in the US I've ever been. They have a Grizzly season up there too. The US does not, they are protected. There's a good reason the Great Plains Grizzly's are extinct. The US took the Wolf off the protected species and had a season for the first time in years last year. This year a Judge in Montana put them back on.



Again it's scum bag hunting. Let me lure this thing here for a couple of months so he comes every day for food, then shoot him/her.



I'm all for hunting, but type of hunting is NOT sport. There are usually a couple of Black Bears roaming around the camp ground at night when we are in Manitoba. Grizzly are farther west in both the US and Canada.







Scum bags![/quote]



Like I said, I ain't keen on it either. If I knew the meat and everything was being used, I would probably feel a bit better about it. Hell, I hate it when I gill hook a fish. I just know it's gonna die, but at least another animal will get to eat it.

 

[Guest]

Most everyone I know takes their meat to be processed. Now in the Western States, when you see what the hunters have to go through (wild wilderness) to hunt, more power to them. You get a 700lb Moose, 200lb Cat, ect ect, most of the time you have to gut and Haul. All while you may be the one hunted.... HAHA



but to bait a poor animal like that for slaughter. Just burns me. Takes the sport completely out of hunting. You know where it's gonna be at last twice a day. Sad.



And for what you said I sometimes don't like fishing Lake Trout up there in the Summer. Due to the fact they are down at 90ft you give them the Benz pulling them up. Unless you pop their blatter 9 out of 10 times they'll die. And 26 inches and lower is the limit. You catch a ton over 26.

 

[jakobeast]

[quote name="R K"]Most everyone I know takes their meat to be processed. Now in the Western States, when you see what the hunters have to go through (wild wilderness) to hunt, more power to them. You get a 700lb Moose, 200lb Cat, ect ect, most of the time you have to gut and Haul. All while you may be the one hunted.... HAHA



but to bait a poor animal like that for slaughter. Just burns me. Takes the sport completely out of hunting. You know where it's gonna be at last twice a day. Sad.



And for what you said I sometimes don't like fishing Lake Trout up there in the Summer. Due to the fact they are down at 90ft you give them the Benz pulling them up. Unless you pop their blatter 9 out of 10 times they'll die. And 26 inches and lower is the limit. You catch a ton over 26.[/quote]



I hope you know how to pop the bladder. 27 inches was the limit on Northerns, and I gill hooked a 30 inch big fella. Although, I wouldn't say I hooked him like that, the ****** inhaled the lure big time. I had to very carefully get the hook out from his gullet, and then he thrashed, and drove the hook into a gill.

 

[Guest]

[quote name="jakobeast"]



I hope you know how to pop the bladder. 27 inches was the limit on Northerns, and I gill hooked a 30 inch big fella. Although, I wouldn't say I hooked him like that, the ****** inhaled the lure big time. I had to very carefully get the hook out from his gullet, and then he thrashed, and drove the hook into a gill.[/quote]



I do my best. Northern are pretty hearty fish. It takes a lot to kill them. Unlike trout that if you look cross eyed most species dies.



Walleye, Musky, Bass like the Smalley you caught, all hearty. We go far north for Crappie and Smalley's. We should all get a trip next year. We are heading up the first week in August for sure.



That chick that we met at the Convention was from da Pas. Might get some extra info on other lakes in the area.

 

[phranchk]

[quote name="jakobeast"]



I have seen that done, and I unfortunately dunno how to do it. Niether does my Pops, at least not without removing a shit to of meat.[/quote]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1pwb8NzoMI[/youtube]

This is the video I used to learn. My first couple still had a few y bones in it, but after that I got pretty good. The bigger the northern the easier it is to remove.

 

[bookjones]

[quote name="phranchk"]

[youtube]ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1pwb8NzoMI[/youtube]

This is the video I used to learn. My first couple still had a few y bones in it, but after that I got pretty good. The bigger the northern the easier it is to remove.[/quote]



Bwahaha! The opening of that vid is CLASSIC and I quote, "First thing we gotta do is. . . {{THWACK!}}. . .kill the northern." That had me in rewind stitches.

 

[jakobeast]

[quote name="bookjones"]



Bwahaha! The opening of that vid is CLASSIC and I quote, "First thing we gotta do is. . . {{THWACK!}}. . .kill the northern." That had me in rewind stitches.[/quote]



We had a hammer in the fish house, and I think my dad wasn't hitting em hard enough. I grabbed it and BLAMMO!!!!.



Thing was dead. It is a little hard to fillet them, besides the bones. Those things are so slimy.

 

[mill500]

[quote name="jakobeast"]



I assume you can only shoot single bears.[/quote]



As opposed to married ones?

 

[Guest]

Now that was funny!

 

[jakobeast]

[quote name="mill500"]



As opposed to married ones?[/quote]



You fuckin' beat off.

 

[Guest]

Tbird stole Jako's PW.

 

[winos5]

[quote name="R K"]



Most assholes up there hunt "baited...ng the Bear there to feed for months.[/quote]



I've never understood how waiting in a blind for game to show up for the dinner/breakfast you've ben providing for several months is hunting. Or hunting in a fenced in enclosure, (sure its 20 acres or so, but still a pen) for that matter. More like harvesting.

 

[tvltre]

[quote name="bookjones"]

Bwahaha! The opening of that vid is CLASSIC and I quote, "First thing we gotta do is. . . {{THWACK!}}. . .kill the northern." That had me in rewind stitches.[/quote]



That was hiliarious!

 

[mill500]

[quote name="jakobeast"]



You fuckin' beat off.[/quote]



I do what I can.

 

[gettinthere]

[quote name="jakobeast"]

We had a hammer in the fish house, and I think my dad wasn't hitting em hard enough. I grabbed it and BLAMMO!!!!.



Thing was dead. It is a little hard to fillet them, besides the bones. Those things are so slimy.[/quote]



I caught a Northern on our trip last year and all they had was a little club type thing. I had to whack that bastard atleast 15 times.