May 23 – August 18
June 15 – August 9
Highlights from 1 Camera
I created this little feeding area by chopping down a thicket of 10 foot tall salmonberry and elderberry bushes. This area is also a wide funnel formed by the beach on the left and some steep ravines on the right, my clearing gives the animals a reason to stop by my camera as they pass through.
May 15 – August 8
I switched this camera to record video, and next time I check it this creek will be full of salmon, and bears and eagles will be the main critters.
Kayaking and Hunting for Deer while checking Cameras
(Found one)
This is my best spot in this area, I got over 1700 pictures from Late May to Aug. 21. It’s an intersection in some dense cover.
This camera did pretty well, lots of different animals. This is a trail following a swampy creek that cuts through some muskegs.
This is the only camera I’ve left in place since last year, it watches a forest intersection.
Set a camera to watch this beaver dam, it was okay but I moved it and set it on the gut pile of the deer I took home with me.
This camera watches a trail that follows the edge of a muskeg.
June 15-August 11
This was a good spot especially for bears, but the lighting was too challenging for this camera so I moved it. These are the best of about 500 pictures.
Checking Cameras and Looking for Deer
August 15-16
I called in this little buck by saying Maaa in the back of my throat. I like to call this way in places that get a lot of hunting pressure and the deer are used to the standard Alaska style deer calls.
This was a good spot for bear, but picture quality sucked so I moved the camera to watch this main trail and the bed under the left side of the big tree.
This cabbage patch was a pretty good spot but I moved it to check out another trail.
This spot was full of 10 foot tall salmon berry bushes and other tall brush that I cut down to create a natural food plot. It’s working pretty well. In this image a wolf is passing through.
I’ve had a camera here for several years, but this is the first video from this spot.
This is another spot I’ve used for a long time, but not continuously.
July 5 – August 7
July 5 – August 5
I moved this camera to the small tree on the right, It’s going to be facing the sun in the afternoons later in the year which could be a problem but it’s cloudy here most of the time and this angle offers a lot better coverage.
July 4 – August 5
Checking Cameras and Looking for Deer
My first hunt of the year went pretty well, I saw a lot of deer including to decent bucks, but they both disappeared without offering me a decent shot, the season here lasts 4 months so no hurry.
Set this camera to capture images of bear fishing for salmon, the pink run is just getting started.
I moved this camera a few yards to where it can cover a bigger area, the trail is getting a lot of traffic.
There are a few salmon in this creek now and it should get stuffed with them soon, which means lots of black bear next check.
Picture quality here isn’t very good so I haven’t shared many photos from this spot but I set it here because it’s in a spot I like to hunt and it’s doing really well as a scouting camera.
This is another camera set to catch bears fishing for salmon. I had one blurry picture of a bear with a fish this check, so the run is starting.
I’ve had this camera here for a few years, it’s one of my best spots, last year I had it set for video.
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