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Title: Bear Meat
Post by: Star882 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.
Title: Re: Bear Meat
Post by: Buckmark 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...

Title: Re: Bear Meat
Post by: Wapiti4570 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.
Title: Re: Bear Meat
Post by: Boss .300 winmag 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:
Title: Re: Bear Meat
Post by: j_h_nimrod 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.
Title: Re: Bear Meat
Post by: lokidog 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.
Title: Re: Bear Meat
Post by: n_mathews13 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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