ORIGINAL: Hiawatha
My only recomendation is if you are going to keep a bear for meat take a fall bear where they have been eating well on grain, grass berries etc. A bear that is hitting the bait hard has been eating beavers, dohnuts, cooking oil etc.
True Watha, unless he's springer...feeding with the elk and whitetails in the highcountry on natural habitat..fresh green grasses...like this old 16year old was.. He didnt stink a bit, was as yummy as can be. We had so much bear sausage made up we didnt know what to do with it all. Great breakfast sausage too.. Yummy..