Best time of day to hunt over waterhole?
Contributors to this thread:Bears
From: Treeline
02-Sep-20
Will be watching this one!
From: Kodiak
02-Sep-20
I'd say late in the day, dusk.
From: Treeline
02-Sep-20
I’ve been thinking water.
I know where there are a couple of small seeps surrounded by oak brush.
And a pond up high on a mountain in the aspen with lots of oak brush lower down.
I suck at sitting. But with over 35 Colorado bear tags floating around in my 5 gallon bucket of tag soup, thinking I need to sit on my ass by a water hole...
From: Treeline
02-Sep-20
It is dry up here this year.
A lot of the food sources are pretty limited This year. Water may be the key.
Even though there are streams close by, I gotta believe those bears will be drinking at any water sources up away from the creeks.
Not a camera guy (don’t own one) but thinking that water may be the way to kill one.
Damn I hate sitting...
From: Orion
02-Sep-20
Sit all day I kill a majority of mine between 10 and 2. The hotter the better. I disagree with pigdoc considering I've killed over a dozen bears sitting water and my kids have started killing a few themselves.
From: Orion
02-Sep-20
From: Orion
02-Sep-20
Here are a couple from last year both on water.
From: Matt
03-Sep-20
Checking trails cams here in CA a couple of weeks back, it was mostly late afternoon/evening. It was hot, so they were swimming and not just drinking.
From: Medicinemann
03-Sep-20
You could always take a predator call, just to spice things up, if things are real slow at the water. I did that on a grizzly hunt.....but be careful what you wish for....LOL!!
From: Rock
03-Sep-20
I have seen them come to water at all times of day but mostly (like Orion) mid-day seemed to be the best.
From: Orion
03-Sep-20
You'll be fine all mine have come from public land most guys aren't out in the middle of the day
From: Wild Bill
04-Sep-20
Thirstdays.
From: tkjwonta
05-Sep-20
Nicely done!
From: Treeline
05-Sep-20
Nice!
From: Kodiak
05-Sep-20
Outstanding!
From: John in MO / KY
05-Sep-20
Well Done!
From: Oryx35
05-Sep-20
10:21 AM
10:21 AM
I took this boar at 10:21 AM yesterday morning at a small spring. Looking at trail camera photos from the last month, it seems that evening is best, closely followed by middle of the day, with morning being a distant third. I didn't count the nighttime visitors, and of course this data could be unique to the water source I was hunting.
From: Muddyboots
25-Sep-20
OK Stix, gotta give up the time of day you took your shot! Way to go.