Big Bear’s Prints Trigger Memories of Snaggle Tooth

Things are heating up. Found deep paw impressions on the forest floor of a monster bear that sends a flashback of the great monster bear, Snaggle Tooth.  This is a new private area that we will be hunting this fall, in this bear’s home range. He is alive and well.  He is not the only big bear I have located either.

 I placed a Cuddeback trail camera over the well-worn path. This next coming week is a very important week.  I need to place as many teaser baits as possible. Why? The bears breeding season will be heating up soon and those big boars will be cruising miles looking for hot sows. 

If I can get a few of those bears to visit and hang around my bait stations for a few days before moving on that's half the battle. Those big boars will remember where those bait stations are and hopefully will venture back and make it the home once the breeding season is over. 

Editor Note: Watch for the Mike Foss’s weekly bear blog under “Bear Hunting” on this website leading up to the September season. Read Foss’s bear column too in the print issue of On Wisconsin Outdoors.

Mike Foss

Mike Foss compass next to the monster bear’s footprint offers a perspective of size.  The bear triggered memories of Snaggle Tooth for the northern Wisconsin guide, a bear that was pursued for many seasons and written about often in On Wisconsin Outdoors.”