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Been up north bear hunting with some family members. Don't have a tag because of preference points and drawing rules, but go anyway to help others fill their tag.

We let the striker dog loose near a small stream surrounded by Alder thickets and within a couple of minutes there was a bawl, the other dogs were turned loose and a chase was on.

Wasn't long and the treed song was in the air. Of course the youngest guy in the bunch got to the tree first and saw a light colored critter sail out of the tree, but could not quite make out what it was. The dogs were immediately in hot pursuit and were moving in a circle when they treed.

The five of us split up and came in from different directions to the tree. WOW! Up in a half-dead Oak tree was a bonafide Cougar giving us the stink-eye. We grabbed the dogs and one guy got a picture before the critter skedaddled.


We joked about having picture evidence of what happened, because the DNR wouldn't believe us without it. This just don't happen in Wisconsin.

We went back to the trucks, regrouped and let out the striker dog near an old homestead that had thickets of Hazelnuts. A bawl was heard within minutes and the other dogs joined the chase.





Uncle Joe had a tag.