[Craig T]

I wasn't going to post, because it might anger Baz, but I had an ugly experience with a black bear. Did a remote fly fishing trip in Alaska. Dropped off by a tundra plane with five days of food and gear. The guide warned us that a rogue black bear had been giving people trouble in the area and told us to bring a pot and pan in the tent with us. If we heard the bear getting into our food we were to bang the pots and pans. Sure enough, there he was breaking into our cooler. The pots and pans just made him growl at us so the guide fired a shotgun onto the air and he scampered off. The stupid guide tells us to bring the food into our already too small tents. He says the bears won't come into the tents with people there. WRONG! One hour later I wake up to the bear tearing open the door to our tent, then another shotgun blast. I hadn't been there 8 hours and there's a dead bear in the camp. I felt bad for the bear, but not as bad as I would have felt eating nothing but berries, grubs, and salmon for five dates until the plane came back.