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The last 30 days we have been baiting and prepping for the season. We have an extremely large baiting area that covers nearly 1/2 a million acres in Aroostook county Maine.

We our hunting out of three facilities. We run majority of our hunts out of our 8000+ square foot lodge and have two outpost camps in our northern edges of our territory.

I will be online posting the daily statistics of bears seen, shots taken and some pictures as well.

We thought it would be neat to give a guides daily perspective on our day to day operations here at the lodge.

Best of luck to everyone that is hunting bears this fall!

We had 19 bears sighted, 6 harvested and 1 did not recover. All bears taken were adults and ranged from 150 to just over 200lbs.

6 bears at the lodge here made for a busy morning. We have recently renovated our processing facility to include a walk in cooler and full rail system.

I will be posting up some pictures later this afternoon of a few of the bears and the processing facility.

Image posted here is of our updated processing facility. On the left side of this building we have the ability to drive in and hoist the bears onto a integrated rail system. This aids us in weighing skinning and processing the bears.

Too keep this thread from getting too large, I will only post stats moving forward.

I'll try and get all the photos up on the web page with a direct link to all that were taken this week.

So, I have put up a album on webshots with a bunch of pictures. I'll post when we update the album with more.

We have now tagged 15 here at camp and we are now at the midway point for the week.

Bou'bound, you be surprised at how many hunters start out at camp with bow and switch to gun. Our bow stands are setup at 20 yards and gun stands are from 40-60 yards. We are bowhunters ourselves so we know what is required from a bowhunters standpoint. The bear hunt in Maine is weapon of choice and with our large territory we have enough stands to cover whatever weapons our sports choose to hunt with.

We will tally up the totals by the end of the week for number of hunters, number of bears seen, shots taken and bears tagged.

Total for week one with two more nights of hunting stands at 31.

never hunted maine but i don't think bear are that much different there than on the 22 hunts i have made in nfld, new brunswisk, ontario manitoba, and sask.

a good outfitter who gets bowhunting, strategic baiting, stand placement and is in a decent area has absolutely no issue getting guys set up within 15 yards of highly active baits. period

not questioning the lodge or outfitter, but i think guys who shoot both bow and gun and choose to forego the bow for a gun for bait hunting bear are missing something special

Lodge - 25 hunters (one left early for medical reasons), 21 bears tagged, 2 others shot at.

Outpost 1 - 11 hunters 10 bears tagged, 3 additional shot at.

Outpost 2 - 13 hunters 9 bears tagged, 3 additional shot at.

Total from all facilities 49 hunters, 40 bears tagged, 8 additional shots taken.

For the remainder of the weeks to come, we will post up the tallies at the end of the week.

Some final thoughts on our business. We are often questioned on the number of hunters we take. While yes we do take many people, but in no way does if effect our quality or ability to provide a personal hunting experience. Our lodge at 8000 square feet with 10 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms can handle many more, but in the mid 20's is where we typically end up. Outpost camps can each handle up to about 15 each. There is plenty of room, space, food and hunting territory for the number of hunters we book. Our massive hunting territory combined with our facilitates and experienced guides (over 150 years of collective experience) allows us to capitalize on the associated benefits while providing quality hunting experiences.

As archers and hunters, we put ourselves into our clients shoes to ensuring that we provide services that we would expect booking a hunt through an outfitter.

A special thanks to Pat here at the bowsite for supporting sponsor threads and to Lancaster Archery and our partnership activities.

We wish everyone the best of luck wherever your hunting travels may take you.

Lodge 17 hunters, 8 bears tagged and 4 missed shots

Outpost 1: 10 Hunters, 7 bears tagged and 4 missed shots.

Outpost 2: 4 Hunters, 2 bears tagged and 4 missed shots

Total for week two was 17 bears tagged and 12 missed shots (out of 31 hunters). Bear activity was slightly below what we saw in week one, but still very good and offered our hunters plenty of opportunity to fill a tags. Missed shot opportunities was much higher than normal.

We did have several bears above the average in size hit the pole this week with one night having three bears over 300lbs brought in.

We are a little behind in getting our photo's posted online but should have all the pictures up by mid week and more to add from this week.

Results for week three will be posted at the end of this week.

If they are hunting remote wilderness I'm not sure how Maine bears could be considered the smartest and toughest to hunt. I just came back from NE SAS and one could argue the bears were all outsmarting me. I would argue it was just unseasonably hot and the night time full moons had a lot more to do with it.