Tonight's Fishing Story

[rake60]

I love my home! It is on the edge of a small town and just a
short walk has me in a dense hard wood forest with a perfect
fishing stream running through it. Every evening that conditions
permit, I can be found hiking back to my favorite fishing hole to
fish until dark. I went again tonight and didn't get one bite fishing.
The walk home made the outing worth while. I heard a noise on the
trail ahead and assumed it was a deer. I didn't even look up.
Then the noise got much louder. I looked up to see a black bear
about 75 feet away from me with it's head up sniffing the air.
It wasn't a big bear, maybe 200 pounds.
We watched each other for a couple minutes then the bear decided
to go another direction. That will be the last dusk fishing walk I go
on without a camera! I'll be looking for it now and hopefully will get
a picture or two.

Rick

 

[90LX_Notch]

I am at the other end of the state and have them in my yard every night during both the spring and fall. They are nice until they hit your garbage cans and gut the gabage bags all over the yard. Once that starts to occur on a nightly basis you begin to hate them. We have too many of them around here.

 

[Krown Kustoms]

It sounds like the bears up your way are still scared of human contact, I have two families of bears in my neighborhood both a mother with three cubs, well I say cubs but a male will stay with its mother for up to five years.
Anyway they are being fed by someone and are not afraid to be waiting on your back porch in the morning.
I leave for work at five am and usually see bears and deer. I live in a wooded neighborhood but not so remote that you should see bear daily.
We tried to call someone and they said they cant do anything unless they are being destructive and trash dosent count.
one of them is about 400 pounds and I dont want to walk up on it in the morning on my way to the car.
They have been killed at as much as 600 lbs here, I didnt see that one but I read the newspaper article.
-B-