Northern Manitoba Black Bear(Pics Included)

OK Woody, Ask and you shall receive.

Flew out September 3rd from South Bend to meet up with the rest of the guys in Minnesota. We then flew to Winnipeg and then got a puddle jumper to Thompson Manitoba.

www.trappermikesoutfitting.ca/hunts.htm

We were picked up by the guide service and brought back to town where we stayed. All of us were unaware that we were staying at a bed and breakfast type atmosphere but enjoyed it just the same. Surprised Thompson which is in the middle of nowhere had a walmart and mcdonalds. They had us hunt the first day but it was too warm to see any bears. The food was excellent.






We didn't see much for the next few days and only two of the guys saw a few bears. So on Wednesday I decided to shoot the first one I saw. He was 5'4" which was small but I didn't care for my first bear and I wanted to go fishing. I whacked its shoulder with my bosses 30-06 and got another shot off to send it down the hill, over the cliff and in the lake. We found it the next day floating near shore. Probably 200#. Hard to judge size when you never hunted bear before.










On Friday the others still didn't get Bears so I took off in the afternoon with one of the guides and a fellow Mountie for fishing at Paint Lake. This lake was huge with many islands. Slayed the 2-3 pound Walleyes and got some pike too. Pike to Canadians is trash so we let them go.



A nice Saugar







Finally on Friday Night two of the other guys got Bears.

Aarons was 6'



Tony's was 6'6"

Great pics. Thanks.

Absolutely better than lobster!!

That makes my mouth water just looking at them.


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Awesome story! I hope to pursue black bear in the next year or two!