Dad snapped this photo while on a fly-fishing trip to Kodiak. We always seem to bump into bears up in Alaska, and we're only fishing, not hunting! Take a fly rod, hike to a stream, play with the fish for a while and look around - there will be a bear someplace nearby!

I took these while fishing south of Cordova Alaska last September:


Bears, bears, bears... Alaska is chock full of 'em! Especially around the salmon streams...