Hey David,

I can't believe I haven't seen this thread?     Love the photo of the eagle!

I'll be checking back in to see how this plays out, hopefully I'll bring you some luck!   :D  

Tim

I hope you do to Tim!!!

I spent from 7am to 4 pm in the stand today, had to leave as Hunter has a football game tonight.....

Bait was smashed last night after my buddy hunted, nothing came in today while I was there.....will be back at it Sunday afternoon.

Stay tuned........

David

Cool best of luck

Hey David, Great story and pictures so far! I wish you the best of luck!

ttt

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Good luck tonight. Hope your son did well at the football game.  

Yup, waiting to hear with "Baited Breath"(get it?) Good luck bud! Shawn

Shawn , was that you getting into David's bait barrel?  

Pretty dark and no word, maybe David did good! Shawn

Still waiting for good news!!!!

Hey David.....you out there???  

Sorry guys busy weekend.......so, where were we??? Oh yeah, ended with the Friday night hunt, nothing seen but the bait had been hammered from the night before. (I had to leave early for Hunter's football game, which they won by ending the defending champions 15 game unbeaten streak!!!)

Remember when I said I would bring you along for both the ups and the downs? Imagine my dissappointment when I got to the stand yesterday to find the bait hadn't been touched since I rebaited Friday afternoon......nada, none, and the only thing on the camera were racoons and a coyote.  Not what I was expecting at all......I hunted yesterday from 1 pm to dark, and except for a couple of squirrels saw and heard nothing.

Seeing that I only have 9 more days of the baiting season left, I got up early this morning and was in my stand at dawn for a quick three hour hunt.  Ups-bait hit hard again.  Downs-My camera was gone!!!!  I hunted till 9 am and then went to inspect the tree it had been on.  I found one of the bungee cords there ripped apart, ok, so a bear took it.  After a short search I found it about 50 yards behind the bait, right in the area that a smaller bear had been coming in from last year. Remarkably, the camera had no teeth marks nor any damage, and was still working!
I was able to view the images and saw that the bear was indeed the smaller one I had seen a number of times last year, this is the first time he has shown himself this year.  I will put some pics of him up later this evening.

That's today's update, though I am a little concerned that the bigger bear hasn't been around the last couple of days.  I know there is another hunter less than a mile as the crow flies, I'm hoping that bear didn't make his way down to that area....
   

Oh yeah, I didn't put my camera back out yet....    

David

Nice thread'      

Glad you found your Camera, Cant wait to see pictures of the "theif".

Yes, let us see the rascal, maybe he is big enough this year to pay for his crime.  Maybe you can use that camera as "bait"?

In case you wondering...here is what a bear looks like stealing  a trail camera.

I have a number of photos just like that one. Keep it comuming. Bear opens Saturday for us in northern NY.

As I said earlier, I was fortunate in that I found my working undamaged camera behind the bait site, what the bear doesn't know is that I caught him in the act......

Here he is contemplating how he will complete his dirty deed, thinking, "I'll eat first then I'll take care of the plastic thing on the tree over there"....

 

Ok, now I'll eat a little......



Note the time in this next picture, I think this was a diversion as he attacked!!



And now the attack.....38 seconds after the diversionary tactic.....



Now the thief thinks he is safe as he makes his escape, not knowing that the camera still took a picture as he made his escape......



The ups-bears are still on the bait AND my camera is safe and sound........the downs-I'm not sure there are any right now!!!

David

Daavid...all that you need is patience and a good shot.