What's on the menu?

[Angry Perch]

I was on bears in several areas, but couldn't make it happen. Between fire danger closure and the early berry crop, time was limited. So now that the blackberries have pretty much dried up, what's on the menu on the west side?

[saylean]

Any remaining berry patches, termite logs and predator calls.

Oh...and gut piles.

[Angry Perch]

I found this adjacent to a formerly productive berry patch. Is this what I'm looking for?
BTW, I'm half way through your book. These bears have me all worked up!

[GBoyd]

In your experience will the change in diet for this time of year affect the taste of the meat?

[Angry Perch]

In your experience will the change in diet for this time of year affect the taste of the meat?

Dang, you read my mind!

[saylean]

In your experience will the change in diet for this time of year affect the taste of the meat?

Noope

[saylean]

I found this adjacent to a formerly productive berry patch. Is this what I'm looking for?
BTW, I'm half way through your book. These bears have me all worked up!

yup.

Thanks for the support. I really hope you have enjoyed it so far.

[Boss .300 winmag]

In your experience will the change in diet for this time of year affect the taste of the meat?

Noope

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I don't think I would want one that switched to salmon. 

[tgomez]

Eastside menu!

[heronblu]

I would love an experienced answer to that question as well. Specifically does a bear who has been feeding on salmon taste bad? I passed on a bear last week because he was by the river chewing on pinks.

[runamuk]

I would love an experienced answer to that question as well. Specifically does a bear who has been feeding on salmon taste bad? I passed on a bear last week because he was by the river chewing on pinks.

My family that lives and has lived in AK has said no one will touch bear that's been eating fish up there because it tastes awful.  They have said most people don't eat brown bear at all because its gross due to the fish diet. 

I know the black bear I have had that was eating berries and deer and stuff was good.  As a kid we ate bear sausage and I remember it being amazing.  Animals flesh is influenced by what it eats I know this from raising animals and eating them. 

[Romulus1297]

That is why you don't shoot a fish bear only a berry bear is what you are looking for.

[Romulus1297]

Would you shoot a glacier bear in Stehekin whatever it was eating?

[GBoyd]

This has got me worried too. I've been focusing on bear this season. I don't qualify for resident tags in Oregon yet and the non-resident deer and elk are too expensive.

As the season goes on and the berries run out, I get worried about ending up with a hundred pounds of meat that I have to choke down.

[JimmyHoffa]

There are still berries out there mostly at the lower elevations though.  Should have evergreen blackberries and evergreen huckleberries. 

[billythekidrock]

Evergreen Huck is a great food source at this time of year and will often be available through the end of the season on the Westside.


Also Cascara


Salal

[Hectocotylus]

I noticed all the mountain ash berries were done and only one small patch of blueberries were left where i commonly go. But this is my first year so I hope I find them again. Hard to target when unsure where to look.


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