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[MonkeyChunks]

Ok so i made a deal with my wife that goes like this. Be advised this deal was made early spring.
I asked the wife if i can hunt bear this year, she said hell no. She said i dont have Enough experience under my belt to tackle bear hunting.
Being the manly man i am, i said how about this. If i bag a turkey, pig and a deer before the Bear season opens can i hunt Bear. To which she replies with a smirk, A trifecta.... You think you can pull off a trifecta? To which i replied "HELL YEAH"

Now this is turning out to be really difficult, I hunted spring turkey and found only hens. I have trudged allover the Hills of Cleveland looking for pigs only to find bones, and with Deer season around the corner i am hesitant.

Heres my deal, has anyone hunted Bear before in Santa Barbara area?
I plan on hunting that area, and i need toknow can it be done? Is there ample public land and more importantly is there bear to hunt?

Help me, and advice or pics would do nicely,so i can further argue my point and get a bear tag already.

[ShooterJohn]

Here is the Bear harvest figure for 2010 Santa Barbara County. There were only 10 bear taken. Not allot from that area. You may want to look here and find a better place to try.

http://www.dfg.ca.go...ar/harvest.html

[treffryraxter]

1 you lost your man card when you asked..
2 you are not living up to your end of the bargain if you didnt get your spring turkey so no help for you

[modoc squeek shooter]

Just go camp at Little Grass Valley Resvoir in Sierria or Plumas county(not sure which county it is in lol, the line is close) leave food on your table and kill a bear protecting your camp lol. Damn I think that is baiting which is illegal in Calif. Ed

[MonkeyChunks]

1 you lost your man card when you asked..
2 you are not living up to your end of the bargain if you didnt get your spring turkey so no help for you

NO way man, my man card is still intact... Its just a mear set backin my plans.
I was living up to my end of the bargin the damn turkeys werent doing there part. But fall turkey season is my and by then iwill have my deer and hopefully have my pig down on the ground and gutted.

Here is the Bear harvest figure for 2010 Santa Barbara County. There were only 10 bear taken. Not allot from that area. You may want to look here and find a better place to try.

http://www.dfg.ca.go...ar/harvest.html

THanks for the nubers, i was hopign it was more along the lines of 100 not 10...
Ok so i need to set my sights further north.

[ShooterJohn]

To bad you can't hunt them around Lake Tahoe they have way to many of them up there.

[modoc squeek shooter]

John there are even more bear here in Modoc county. I was talking to a couple bow hunters last week, they saw 2 bear just above Davis Creek. Ed

[whatjeffhunts]

I hunted D13 just above Ojai valley last year, saw some bear sign but not much.

[MonkeyChunks]

Well i will look into areas further north and hope for the best, I still have to pull off my trifecta in order to qualify in my wifes eyes but i have high expectations.