I never saw a bear while fishing, but I did hear Tippy taking a dump stream side once.  Thank God I was not down wind.

About 15 years ago I say a Beaver in the Manchester hole. Since then all I ever see is yinzers like guru

Tippy if that is the case, be sure to wear orange during bear season...  Just as an aside, it is not at all a bad idea to wear an orange cap when fishing the upper parts of the streams in hunting season, especially deer season.

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I never saw a bear while fishing, but I did hear Tippy taking a dump stream side once.  Thank God I was not down wind.

 
God bless Tucks medicated wipes................. Lord I apologize for that

I was at Walnut on Wednesday. A silver colored mink tried to eat a steelhead that a fellow had roped at the waterfall. The guy was poking at it with a stick, but it wasn't enough to chase the persistent little fellow away. Anyway, the guy finally cahsed it downstream. It came meandering past me, and stopped to visit the two fellows below me. One of them had a fish on. The mink took this opportunity to knock his minnow jar over and start to scarf down the poor fellow's bait. The guy was poking at him with a stick about as big as a pencil, and the mink was chirping and devouring his minnows while the guy is fighting his fish. While the guy was ladling his minnows back into his jar, the creature was still trying to eat the leftovers. I was laughing so hard that I had to sit down for a spell. I wonder if the mink would eat any of my flies? They're pretty good. We also so a coyote out on the ice at the mouth of Walnut on our last trip up last season, pretty cool.   Fishmonger

I live in Michigan, and was fishing the East Branch of the Augres river for Steel, one fine Spring day.   I was walking the bank and came across a pine tree with fresh claw marks from a bear marking its territory.   Fresh, like dripping sap, and white wood.   They were higher than I could reach, and about 1 1/2 inches into the tree - and circled a tree which was about 18" across.    I hadn't caught any Steelhead, but Suckers were running heavy; so I quickly caught a few Suckers and strung them (there is no limit on them), and figured that if Mr Wooly came along I would toss him some easy food and quickfoot it out of there.   Never ran into him, but I was looking over my shoulder for the rest of the day.   Funny thing is that there is a store about 15 miles away, right on my way to our cabin, that has a bear in a cage; so I stopped and gave the Suckers to the owner for that bear.   I give him Salmon I have caught, which I only kept for the eggs, too.   He said his bear always tells him to thank me.