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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Angry Perch on September 22, 2015, 04:20:02 PM

Title: What's on the menu?
Post by: Angry Perch on September 22, 2015, 04:20:02 PM: 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?
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: saylean on September 22, 2015, 04:54:13 PM: Any remaining berry patches, termite logs and predator calls.

Oh...and gut piles.
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: Angry Perch on September 22, 2015, 05:36:09 PM: 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!
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: GBoyd on September 22, 2015, 05:41:38 PM: In your experience will the change in diet for this time of year affect the taste of the meat?
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: Angry Perch on September 22, 2015, 05:42:59 PM: Quote from: GBoyd on September 22, 2015, 05:41:38 PM
In your experience will the change in diet for this time of year affect the taste of the meat?

Dang, you read my mind!
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: saylean on September 22, 2015, 05:52:12 PM: Quote from: GBoyd on September 22, 2015, 05:41:38 PM
In your experience will the change in diet for this time of year affect the taste of the meat?

Noope
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: saylean on September 22, 2015, 05:52:50 PM: Quote from: Angry Perch on September 22, 2015, 05:36:09 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on September 22, 2015, 05:59:59 PM: Quote from: saylean on September 22, 2015, 05:52:12 PM
Quote from: GBoyd on September 22, 2015, 05:41:38 PM
In your experience will the change in diet for this time of year affect the taste of the meat?

Noope
.

I don't think I would want one that switched to salmon. :yike:
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: tgomez on September 23, 2015, 10:00:50 PM: Eastside menu! :chuckle:
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: heronblu on September 23, 2015, 10:41:19 PM: 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.
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: runamuk on September 23, 2015, 11:01:20 PM: Quote from: heronblu on September 23, 2015, 10:41:19 PM
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. :chuckle:
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: Romulus1297 on September 23, 2015, 11:43:31 PM: That is why you don't shoot a fish bear only a berry bear is what you are looking for.
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: Romulus1297 on September 24, 2015, 12:04:07 AM: Would you shoot a glacier bear in Stehekin whatever it was eating?
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: GBoyd on September 24, 2015, 05:35:08 PM: 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.
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: JimmyHoffa on September 24, 2015, 05:40:04 PM: There are still berries out there mostly at the lower elevations though. Should have evergreen blackberries and evergreen huckleberries.
Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: billythekidrock on September 24, 2015, 07:10:11 PM: 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.
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Also Cascara
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Salal
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Title: Re: What's on the menu?
Post by: Hectocotylus on September 26, 2015, 09:24:08 PM: 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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