ever see a bear while fishing the tribs?

I saw a red-tail nab a chipmunk on Walnut a couple years back, but thats about it.

ORIGINAL: TransAmWS6

just curious?  or maybe any other animal fishing next to you?

 
Seen all kinds of animals fishing next to me.......... never a bear

ORIGINAL: steelhead4ever

That would be something. If you ever do, make sure you shoot it. Maybe it's bigfoot.

Or commander!
 

I saw this last week does it count??? 
 
 

Saw a bear in the back woods near 20 mile I was horribly lost looking for snake hole .....Thank god I didnt hit it  looked to be about 150 lb thought it was a dog at first

hey old fella. glad to see you up. is that you in the picture on the wall? are you trying to get that bear to transport the steel back and forth? cheers to you.

flock of turkeys between the chutes and rt5 ... and no thats not a smart **** comment, thats serious

Was night fishing at Elk Creek access last fall when I noticed a wake coming towards me.  I thought maybe a muskrat.  Kept getting closer and closer so I turned on my flashlight.  Much to my surprise it was a skunk!!!!  His hair was all puffed up sticking out of the water.  Looked more like he was walking on water.  I never knew skunks could swim???????  Same spot a couple weeks ago I had a raccoon come within 6 foot of me.  Chased it away then an hour later he was back.  I guess I should start using a lantern!

No bears, except the one Skip posted.  I did have a very strange thing happen years ago on Elk.  A turkey came out of the wookds and followed me around for about an hour.  The bird would not leave my side until I eventually walked further than it wanted to go.  It was not aggressive, just very friendly.  It looked to be a wild bird, but I am beating it had been raised around humans, and may have been someone's pet.
 
Other critters I have seen include hawks, the usual ducks and geese, deer, muskrats, squirrels, snakes, frogs, beavers (not DB), herons, turkeys, raccoons, a ferret, and drunk rednecks... 

We do have bears in NWPA, just seen one on the creeks.  A friend of mine saw one the other day crossing I 79 near the McKean exit.  If it was near McKean, it most likely will be down on the stream from time to time for no other reason than to get a drink of water. 
 
There has also been a bear(s) hanging around the Edinboro area for several years. 
 
Personally I would love to see a bear on the creek.  It would be neat to watch it catching fish, but I am not sure how much black bears are interested in doing that.  I do know brown bears love fish and will gorge themselves on salmon in the fall. 

Yep D-nymph, it must have been the same bird.  The time frame and location are right on.  Would have been cool to see the eagle.  I saw an eagle on Conneaut creek a couple of years ago.  Neat birds

One of the strangest things I have ever seen is a squirrel swimming.  I was hunting down near Crossingville a few years ago and saw squirrel head down to the creek behind where I was set up.  It walked down a log and looked to be getting a drink.  Splash it was in the water and doing a squirrel paddle across the stream.  When it got to the other side of the creek, it hopped out, did a little shake and headed off to find some nuts.  I never knew that squirrels could swim. 

Never saw a bear and do see a ton of deer and couple racoon but no bear.

Saw a Mink a couple yrs ago at the Manchester Hole.It came to the streams edge and looked over at everyone,then it scurried back and forth a couple times and ran back in the brush.This happened in the middle of the day with the hole lined with anglers.
The last Bear I saw was a few years ago from the window of my sunroom,in fact there were two of them.They destroyed my bird feeder and made a nuicance of themselves.I called the Game Commission and they came and darted them.That was a fun time,I have pictures of the Bear and the family while it was snoozing.By the way I live about 7 miles west of Allentown,not really Bear country but they do wander thru.

This past summer I wanted to boat Lake Erie but the lake was pretty bad because of high winds. Being unable to control my urge to go fishing I decided to go down to Muddy Creek and try my luck. I’ve been fishing here for 30+ years and I always catch trout and never encounter another person. In fact I don’t recall seeing so much as a people print in the mud. If I am ever missing I hope someone will start searching here because I’ve probably got myself into some kind of fix.
 
The streamside and general terrain is very difficult to traverse because it’s so overgrown. You can’t really see more than a few feet away because of the thick cover. In fact once I make it to the stream I usually stay in the water.
 
Anyhows I get my waders on and I’m about to head down to the stream when I notice this heavy “wet dog” smell. Ever smell a wet dog and you recognize it right away. Of course I don’t think much about it so I lock up the car and head down to the creek.
 
I get about twenty feet away from the stream when up jumps this BIG black bear. He was no further away than 5 feet away from me and standing on his hind legs. He looked and sounded VERY ****ed off. Not sure what kind of sounds I was making. (Good thing I didn’t have to go to the bathroom too!)
 
Well I’m standing on my hind legs too only I have to look up to see him eye to eye. Then I remember from some nature show that you’re not supposed to look them in the eye. (I think it were bears they were talking about but it might have been gorillas.) It didn’t matter, as I wasn’t necessarily going to hang around looking into that monster’s eyes anyway. Do you think he was looking at my eyes?
 
Next thing I know he’s down off his hind legs and taking a step in my direction. So then I’m thinking how he’d take to a good whipping with my fishing pole? That would’ve probably just aggravated him to the point where he was really going to beat the s**t out of me bear style. (Which really means biting, clawing and generally disemboweling me.) I ruled out the pole whipping idea.
 
At that point I put plan two into effect and basically ran as fast as a person can run in neoprene waders through brush, brambles and deadfalls. I’ll tell something that’s pretty fast when you can smell bear breath over your shoulder for sure. Being a good Catholic (especially when I figure I could be bear snack) I essentially told God that I’m going to be his dedicated servant from now on no kidding if he’ll at least trip the bear or something. (A bolt of lightening up his backside would’ve been more dramatic but hey I’ll accept anything to live on.)
 
Guess what? Praise the Lord in all His infinite mercy I made it back to my car. (And that wimp bear didn’t even follow me.) Still I sat in my car for an hour just to be sure. I can only hope I ruined that bear’s day as much as he ruined mine.