I've always been curious about the success of this method. Do you generally set up in an area more specific to food or cover? I wanted to try this in a more open wooded area adjacent to a major rhododendron thicket. Do you call as often as other predator hunting?
I constantly check big trees in the later season, but more so for them coming in/out of a denning hole after I found out how often they favor trees to rocks as hibernacula on a study done in the Smokies. I try to concentrate on mature white oaks and beechs with big holes. I read that they spent considerably more time in forested wetlands (aka hemlock swamps) in the PA/MD area, which makes sense given the area I hunt most bears have come out of a hemlock swamp.
