Thought I would post a couple pictures I took last week of a Kodiak fisherman…
He was eating stuff he found on the beach, the fishing was not very good… 
art
Now if THOSE guys just practiced Catch and Release, the fishing would be better for them over the long pull.
Telephoto lens, I assume ??
Hap,
That bear looks a little skinny, maybe you should have hand fed him some of those big fish you have been catching up there. 
Larry 
—sagefisher—
Well it is summer still. 
And what is that in the far back of the first picture?
That is a Canada goose and when they noticed him standing up and looking at them they started honking and flew off, which caused him to give chase.
I got about 15 yards at the closest shooting a Canon 100-400 IS lens, handheld. At 15 yards I was taking serious closeups.
After watching bears for many years and many hours over those years I have grudgingly come to agree the bears are not even close to a problem for the resource… They much prefer spawned-out rotten salmon to fresh! They catch frsh salmon when they first come in, but once rotten stuff is available they seldom fish…
He is a little on the skinny side…
art
Another one of those things you don’t run across in the mainstream media / press / magazine articles / documentaries / fiction - only from a fellow FAOL BB member !!
Thanks for the info, Art.
John
John
Last October I photographed a bear for several hours eating salmon in a small stream. He took very ripe humpies from the river bottom and flung them back and forth in huge sprays of water until they flew apart. At 50 yards we heard large “SPLATS” as chunks flew off and hit streamside rocks. Fairly disgusting is a good word for it, I suppose.
“Bear Hand” is a serious thing here and skinning a fall bear (or any bear in carrion) is foolish without gloves. Lots of bad bugs live on and in bears and getting them under your hide can literally be fatal.
Typically, late in the fall the bears develop some seriously bad guts. Bear stool sprayed on bushes is common and ugly and the bears get real grumpy. Eventually they leave the river bottoms and can be seen grazing like your sick dog up in the grass on the mountainside.
art