[quote author=mastertangler link=1320010375/12#12 date=1320169862]Agreed........

I can't help but laugh at myself now. I spent years on the trapline with all sorts of scents in my packbasket and never gave bears a second thought. Coyote gland lures and beaver castor up the wazoo. 10 hours a day for months at a time and never seen a bear in either Washington state or the U.P. of Michigan. Maybe it was because I was always on the move.......I dunno.[quote]

Or perhaps the bears were hibernating.  Helped my grampa check his traplines back in the ol' days.  Typically a late Nov-late March gig.  Then again, that was in northern WI, not the UP.  I recall seeing something from the WI DNR about bear numbers over the past couple years ::)