Fish eating bears in Alaska are nasty.....

that being said, I have killed 14 bear in WA and eatin them plus others.They were from different areasof the state (coast and inland),different times of the year (spring and fall) and feeding on berries to calfs &fawns, they werefrom 2 to 25 yrs of age and every one was the best critter I ever ate (except a prime spike elksteak). AndI though I make sausage out of them, I don't count that. I am talking backstrap, roast, stewmeat and canned meat.

Those that have had bad experiences with bear meat have eatin fish or dump bears or have had meat that was improperly dressed or prepared. ALot of the old timers lump all predators (bears, coyotes, coons) and because they weren't a glamour animal they must taste bad. (Ever eatin a bullhead sculpin?....me neither......they must be nasty!)

I probably shouldn't have posted this and let you think they are nasty so I can fill my two tags every year, but there are people out there that will wonder "if it is so nasty why do they kill them?" We as hunters do not need another dividing line between us.

Sit in a tree stand over bait. Not here, not even if it were legal. While baiting can seem easy, I know that it is not, but it is not my cup of tea.

Calling adeer into bow range makes your heart beat? Try calling a 200# plus predator to twenty yards in thick brush or timberwhere the visibility is less. Better yet, get on the ground, douse your self with elk scent, then call to that predator with a calf elk call. When you see that bear closer then you wanted (without a shot) and realize that you never heard it get within range. Oh yea, that bear is looking for the source of the smell and sounds.....YOU .. and he doesn't want to shake hands.....he wants to eat.

That is whyI hunt, kill and eat black bears.

210# Field dressed called to 20 yards with a cow call. I never knew he was in the area and he stepped up to intercept me with slobber running down his jaw.



230# field dressed. I was between a split herd of elk and the fawns were chirping something fierce.I cow called and chirped to get this bear at 25 yards in the thick timber.



380# field dressed. Called with a predator call. He was in full search mode with his headswinging left, right, up down.