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Offline Star882

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Bear Meat
« on: October 08, 2014, 12:05:35 PM »
So I have fallowed this site for a couple years but just made an account finally. My question is I always hear you don't want a bear that's been eating fish. With that being said I'm going to be over east for deer season and I still haven't filled my bear tag. So if I see one what are the odds of the bear switching to fish by mid October? I only want to shoot a bear if I'm going to eat it and I don't want it to be a fish bear.

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Re: Bear Meat
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2014, 12:22:22 PM »
Welcome..

Unless you are hunting next to a river with spawning salmon in it over east you will be just fine...

To hunt and butcher an animal is to recognize that meat is not some abstract form of protein that springs into existence tightly wrapped in cellophane and styrofoam.

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Re: Bear Meat
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2014, 07:38:14 PM »
Haven't harvested a fishy bear but all the others... the wife asks why I bother shooting deer. Bear meat properly cared for is amazing! Good luck.
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Re: Bear Meat
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2014, 07:43:54 PM »
I even think none humpy years you might be able to shoot bears on rivers, this year I haven't seen one dead salmon yet or smelled them as I have river front property on the Skagit.  :dunno:
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Re: Bear Meat
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2014, 07:55:25 PM »
A fishy bear is mostly a myth, I have personally harvested three bears (1 brown and 2 black) on fish streams in Alaska and all had great meat. I only saved the backstraps from the brown (typical ignorance says any brown is inedible, especially a fish bear but wanted to try eating it anyway) and after frying some I wish I had saved all the meat.

To be honest I am fairly particular about my game meat and have had plenty of bad (gamey, rut stink) deer or mountain goat but never had problems with bear.

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Re: Bear Meat
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2014, 09:07:25 PM »
We used to shoot them in Spring near Sucker spawning streams all the time in Ontario, never had a bad one.  Haven't had a salmon carcass eater though, so maybe different.

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Re: Bear Meat
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2014, 07:01:33 AM »
Won't have a problem with it on the east side I don't think.  Good luck

 


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