Alaska Bear Hunt – Day 3
September 20th, 2008 at 5:30 pm (Coastal Bear Hunting)
On day three we did a lot of learning our bear hunting area. We had looked things over on Google Earth prior to going and it was entertaining and super helpful. There were basically three streams we could hunt and fish plus the lake shore. No other openings are available due to the dense forest. No clear cuts etc.
Fishing on McGilvery Creek.
Karta River empties Salmon Lake, runs about 1 mile then empties into Karta Lake then goes into some impressive, salmon challenging, falls and runs 3-4 miles further to the ocean bay. Dumping into Salmon Lake were two salmon worthy streams, Andersen Creek and McGilvery Creek.
Fishing on Andersen Creek.
On our day 3 we examined all these streams and found the most bear sign along Karta River with a fair amount along Anderson Creek.
The Salmon run, we discovered, seemed to be at the terminal stages of the salmons life cycle making them extremely plentiful and dying to the point Karta River smelled for rotting fish. Perhaps this abundance of fish affected our bear success.
Dead, Stinky salmon were everywhere.
Our best fishing turned out to be at the mouth of Anderson Creek where it emptied into Salmon Lake. There we caught Silver Salmon, Lake Trout, Steel head trout and another type of fish or two. We ate fish on multiple meals. For us novice fisherman it was a surprise that most of the spawning salmon had lost interest in lures, food and even in life. They were truly dying. seroquel inhibit effects of ecstacy
Resting at the mouth of where Karta River empties into Karta Lake. We called it the Armpit because of the stinky salmon. When this picture was take there were three Sitka deer across the lake in front of us.
At the cabin we ate fish, cleaned, set a bunch of mouse traps and secured a dome tent to store stuff in.(to keep extras dry) This extra tent was probably not needed because we had plenty of cover with tarps. We took approx 300 feet of 1/4 inch nylon rope(not cloth line stuff) and used most of it.
Setting up the tarp in front of the cabin.
Down the beach 100yds we set up a home aid target and made sure the rifles were still sighted in. We had no adjustments to make to the airlines credit.
Checking to make sure the rifles were sighted in.
We found we couldn’t depend on the firewood to dry us out or warm us up. The wood is so wet I’m not sure how one could depend on it. We did get fires going several times, but it’s a lot of work.
Fish jumping up Karta Falls.
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Karta Falls.
SALMON!
We spent hours glassing for bears.
Andersen Creek.
