I bowhunted the north side yesterday, got there late (dang LA traffic) around 7am hunted until dark. Spotted a decent boar bedded under a rock ledge at around 9am, put the stalk on him with everything right but low and behold I pop above the rock at full draw and he's gone. Followed his tracks about 200 yards into a nice poison oak thicket and walked 3 feet by him without noticing, passed him and he bolted out behind me. Mid-day I drove around exploring some new north side areas for me, did some walking through beds and found me some nice remote glassing spots. Got into a bunch of elk and deer, always good fun.
Hiked a bunch in the afternoon and evening, found myself 300 yards from 8 good size sows fighting over a carcass of some sort, only problem is they are across the steepest canyon at Tejon I've ever been up against. At first glance looked like an easy enough 15-minute ordeal until I came to the top of the ledge and had a good 300 feet near vertical rock face to deal with both down and up again. Forgot to pack the climbing gear :lol bashing sign:so I decided to run back to the vehicle and race across where I saw a road around 500 yards from them, but I first had to find that dang road. 20 minutes later I was just rounding the canyon bottom 2 miles downstream, and I couldn't find the road back up leading to them. Darkness and game over.
Most of the sign I found was above around 5000ft, they appear to be concentrated where the ground is softer from recent snow... lots of fresh beds under the oaks on fingers and maybe 1/4 down from the top of steeper hillsides. Roads are in pretty good shape. Will be back up there next week!
Hiked a bunch in the afternoon and evening, found myself 300 yards from 8 good size sows fighting over a carcass of some sort, only problem is they are across the steepest canyon at Tejon I've ever been up against. At first glance looked like an easy enough 15-minute ordeal until I came to the top of the ledge and had a good 300 feet near vertical rock face to deal with both down and up again. Forgot to pack the climbing gear :lol bashing sign:so I decided to run back to the vehicle and race across where I saw a road around 500 yards from them, but I first had to find that dang road. 20 minutes later I was just rounding the canyon bottom 2 miles downstream, and I couldn't find the road back up leading to them. Darkness and game over.
Most of the sign I found was above around 5000ft, they appear to be concentrated where the ground is softer from recent snow... lots of fresh beds under the oaks on fingers and maybe 1/4 down from the top of steeper hillsides. Roads are in pretty good shape. Will be back up there next week!
