About Big Game Kennels
Hello-
Welcome to Big Game Kennels. I am located in Northern Michigan where we have plenty of land to run hounds and plenty of game to pursue. I am just getting started in the sport of hunting with hounds. I have been on a few bear hunts behind hounds and found it to be the most exciting hunt I have ever been on.
I decided to get into hound hunting after spending two years baiting for bear with no luck of seeing a single thing. The bears were working my baits but never came in while I was hunting over them. This is not too uncommon. A bear has great survival senses and most always will circle a bait before it comes in to it. A friend of mine introduced me to a friend of his who was a member of the Michigan Bear Hunters Association. I tagged along with them one day trying to fill my tag. It was on this day, about seven years ago now, that I was treated to what hooks most people to the sport of hound hunting. As I watched the dogs work the trail of a 150 pound bear I was so impressed with this art of hunting. That day a fire began to burn in me to have my own pack of Bear dogs. It has taken me some years to get my first pack of hounds and that is where I am today. I own two Walkers and am learning how to go about training them.
I have called this site Big Game Kennels because it is my desire to some day raise , train, and sell hounds that are used for trailing and treeing Big Game. In Northern Michigan we have a healthy population of Black Bear. We have a pretty good number of Bobcat but they are seldom seen in the wild. On most evenings you can sit quiet and before to long off in the distance you can hear a pack of Coyotes calling to each other and getting ready for an evening hunt. The coyote population used to be held in check by trapping, but over the years people have stopped trapping them and they have increased drastically as a result.
These are the species of animals I am interested in hunting. Bear, Bobcat, and Coyotes. Just a few miles from my house is the Pigeon River National Forest that is open to hunting. I don't know what is more numerous, the acres of state land to hunt or the animals to pursue.