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Record Black Bear?
639 pound boar may challenge Wisconsin’s top spot
EXCLUSIVE, ON-SITE REPORT FROM THE FIELD
By
Dick Ellis
Bear
hunter Craig Cichanofsky of Green Bay with his 639 pound black
bear taken September 17th in Bayfield County on the second
day of the Wisconsin black bear season for hunters using bait.
Guide Mike Foss of Northern Wisconsin Outfitters baited the
station which was also visited frequently and captured on
cuddeback camera by the legendary Snaggle Tooth, a black bear
expected to be even larger. The bear tagged by Cichanofsky
is expected to challenge the existing state record for skull
size after a 60- day official drying period.
(Photo by Dick Ellis)
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MIKE
FOSS
DIARY OF A BEAR GUIDE
The Hunt for the monster of Bayfield County
While
driving the dusty back roads toward my Washburn home on a
hot July afternoon in 2002, I was stunned by the size of the
black bear just off the gravel before me. He sat
there in a sun-streaked ditch panting, the saliva dripping
heavily from his mouth, while I scrambled like any veteran
hunter who knows he has only fleeting moments to react and
make the perfect “shot.”
My hand frantically searched for the camera that would capture
a true trophy forever. In 20 years as a bear and deer guide
in Wisconsin’s Lake Superior country with many animals
tagged in to 400-pound-plus class, I had never seen a bigger
bear.
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