Hunting Bear in the Rain

2013 One very wet bear

Rain is not conducive to black bear hunting. It pretty much shuts them down. I mean, who like to be outside in the rain for any length of time? Not me, and not black bears.











What I have found though is, let it rain long enough and eventually the bears will start to move. They are hungry. Immediately following the rain, they are out in full force, kind of like campers who've been holed up in their tents and anxious to get out and stretch their legs once the rain stops.

Bear taken in the rain

This spring, we had the misfortune of having a day where the rain just wouldn't stop. Now, you might wonder why on earth anyone would go sit in a stand in the rain, but let me tell you, people don't come up here bear hunting to sit in a cabin all day. They come to hunt. On three separate occasions in the past, we have had hunters choose to skip hunting on a rainy day only to have the hunters that chose to tough it out in the rain bring in their trophy that night.



prepped back in shop due to rain

One fall, nature was making it extremely difficult to hunt, with it beginning to rain at about 2pm every day, for the entire week. But bears do have to eat eventually, and from Wednesday through to Friday our hunters all got their bears.

 

After all, you're not going to get your bear while sitting in a cabin.