I took this the second day we fished on the Bartlett River. We had just rounded the bend to our fishing spot and a bear was in the river scavenging salmon carcasses. Fishing regulations there require fishermen to through what is left after they fillet their fish back into the river rather then leave it on the bank where other fishermen might have closer encounters with bears. It is also a good reminder that even in the pristine waters of Alaska you better purify your drinking water, you never know what is happening up stream!
