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[SWHUNTER]

 

[dirty.dan4]

From my experience, most animals taste like what they are eating.

[Ricochet]

I have a couple friends who have worked and hunted on POW Island where the bears have a lot of salmon and skunk cabbage in their diet.  According to them, just the smell of the meat cooking on the stove will run you out of the house.

[billythekidrock]

I have a couple friends who have worked and hunted on POW Island where the bears have a lot of salmon and skunk cabbage in their diet.  According to them, just the smell of the meat cooking on the stove will run you out of the house.

I agree, they are nasty.

[billythekidrock]

All the bears I have ate have come from the high country and have a pretty good blueberry diet, the meat is good. I'm curious if any body has ate bear meat from a bear that has been eating skunk cabbage,rotten salmon and garbage.If so how was it?

What do you consider lowland and garbage?
I have killed a few bears below 500 feet in elevation. Some had nothing but grubs and wood in their stomach. Some had nothing but Salal leaves and one only had a fawn.
They all tasted great. Just as good as the ones full of huck.

[WDFW-SUX]

Bears that have been eating fish = Dog food

[dirty.dan4]

Friends dad shot one that was eating his garbage for over a month.  Would have tasted bad but the bear got into his quints tree a week before he shot it.  Tasted great.

[rasbo]

I hunt 2500 to 1000 never had a bad bear,I agree on the fish eaters ive heard no good on those,same with waterfowl

[huntncoug]

I Honestly dont think Bears like to eat a lot of dead fish, most of the year.  I know this sounds crazy but I hunt directly across from a fish hatchery.  Around September and October there are hundreds of dead fish lining the river, as well as lots of ripe blackberry bushes.  None of these dead fish ever get eaten by bears, they end up getting eaten by birds and coyotes that is it.  The bears that we have shot in this area taste great and have never had any fish in their stomachs.  On the other hand, I shot a bear at 5,000 feet a couple years ago and it tasted like crap. 

[huntncoug]

When getting ready for winter, black bears will eat anything but they prefer high carb diets.  They will eat fish on occasion but only if it is the only food available.  Berries provide a lot more carbs and calories per pound then fish.  There are not many places in WA where their are more fish then berries, even where I hunt next to a fish hatchery.