To be successful landing the state's biggest game animal, you need to be prepared, and should have done your homework. The bear necessities Killing a bear is about as easy as draining spaghetti in your shoe. If you don't know what to look for, or how to look for it, then your chances of bagging a big bear are slim. Bears leave many signs for you to follow. You have to be really into the hunt to find most of them.
Bears love to hang out in the thickest, nastiest, darkest cover in the woods.
These thickets are composed of mountain laurel, rhododendron, and other thick brush. I have had to push through thickets backwards to get to an open, or flat spot where a bear has been bedded. It's here that you will find a lot of bear signs. I look for a path first. The paths are wide and flat.