How Do You Find/Look For the BIG BOARS?

[Huntingtyler123]

And the other tip if hunting bears using an atv, stay on the atv , rubber tires aren’t leaving scent on the ground and scaring bears away, and running over bear scat with atv, is a must for me. I easily forget the next day if that is fresh or old unless driven over.

you do everything Steve says up above and you’ll find bear. My most favourite hunt every year that I look forward to! Sleep in, big camp breakfast , tinker around camp and head out close to 2pm to your spot and sit until dark, or cut it short if you feel like it and hunt all the way back to your camp. Tons of fun!

for the circumstances this year, we put everything Steve taught us in the past two years to use ourselves and came back home with a bear each.

[Harvest the Land]

Hmm I do like getting up on a hill and using binoculars and if needed spotting scope however my most used strategy is to travel and find where the food is..green grass..the lighter colored grass is higher in nutrients..other times it is just quantity.
I hunt areas I know intimately..I know where there are open sky with grass on the ground..I travel to these spots and look for tracks and poop..I Always Drive over bear poop..know if it's not squashed it is freshey dropped.
I find these far back isolated spots which will ALWAYS hold standing water or small flowing water.
Then I settle down and wait for dark..watching the opening/ food quietly carefully..I use total camo..Bee keepers head gear gloves hoping the wind does not shift.. if it does shift I will slowly head home slowly and watch for moving feeding bears along skidder trails off main FSR roads.
Each day I hit a completely different food source.
The place I usually hunt had 30 feeding locations I knew always hold bears.
The new place has 30 separate locations.
After a long hibernation it's about the food..earlier when fresh out of hibernation the food is sketchy so bears feed longer and need to move..before the alders and willows leaf out.
Cows do not chase out bears..I've seen bears feeding close to grazing cows..nervous cows.
I do lIke GEF idea.,it does work island bears are separate species and watching along the ocean on low tide for foraging bears ..moving rocks for shellfish ..or salmon streams however I enjoy bear meat..Bears eating dead salmon is not my Forte.
Notes where there is no wind is great bears move more..feed more confidently able to use their ears.
On first day of a bear hunt I hit Most all feeding areas..finding fresh sign let's me know where I will start the next day/evening
Remote greened up hidey holes in late after noon is where I expect and find big bears.
Black colored I won't shoot if under 6 feet
Colored phase bears need to be over 5 1/2 feet.
Every single year I find 7 footer bears..last year 1 in the spring..Tyler's And 1 in the fall 40 kilometers away.
Srupp

Thank you for the insights Steven. 30 locations in an area is friggin impressive

[srupp]

Thanks T...remember these feeding spots don't need to be huge,nor big..just remote. .no one drives by them you need to work to get into these secondary roads..and the best is usually at the very end of these smaller skid trails..logging landings.
And end of day.
Da da easy peasy..
See one
Do one
Teach one
Srupp

[huntingfamily]

Biggest black bears are off of costal salmon river drainages and streams .Vancouver Island and such .Farther inland you the smaller the bears .Like the greened up slide chutes in the high county and spot and stalk .Pack a lunch find a good vantage point to view a number of slide chutes and glass and glass some more ,makes for a pleasant day until you shoot one 😁.Need two guys .One swatting mosquitos and the other guy skinning and butchering.

Great advice here...