A hearty thanks to all of you fishing folks who responded. I think that I'll give wetting a line from my kayak a try. Andrew Jones' comment: "Because there are plenty of black bears where I paddle I always follow some basics when handling fish. I set up the kitchen as far away from the tents as possible and have a set of clothes specifically for fishing and cooking that is stored in a dry bag in my bear cache. I have yet to have a problem with a bear ( or a bear have a problem with me)." These are precautions that I too follow, but I actually experienced an incident on Admiralty Island (SE Alaska) last summer when a bear decided to assert its ownership of the stretch of stream that myself and a buddy were fishing - it didn't have to assert itself very strongly at all and quickly had all the riparian rights it wanted. I'm sure that it eventually found the two nice pink salmon that we had so thoughtfully left lying tethered to the stringer. It sounds as though my concerns about large toothy denizens of the deep swiping my catch are largely unfounded, if I have any experiences that suggest otherwise I'll be sure to post them. Dave Seng Juneau, Alaska *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 09:19:01 PST
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