You’ll spend a TON of time, money and effort driving back roads and glassing in K-Country and see very few bears. You might get lucky, but to increase your odds, I’d highly suggest you go north and do either spot and stalk on green pipelines and power lines, or try baiting.
If you try baiting, again, be aware that the cost in time and money is much higher than you would think, and in the zones around Rocky Mountain house that are closest to Calgary to bait are baited HARD, and FULL of grizzlies. We baited last year, starting in mid April, and had one little black bear hit our bait every now and then. The rest of the time, it was a mama grizz with her 3 yearlings, or a huge old boar grizzly that destroyed the site over and over. Not only that, but in talking to another hunter we met on the trail, we discovered that our “super remote” bait site had 4-5 other bait sites within 1/2 a mile! We never saw a bear while sitting on stand - i suspect the animals know when someone is there, and simply go to another food source for the day.
For 2022, we’ll go back to our old spot and stalk bear camp NW of whitecourt. We’ve had good success up there.
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