Black Bears - Fishing for Pink Salmon
Millions of Pink Salmon (Humpies) return to the Solomon Gulch Fish Hatchery in Valdez, Alaska each year, attracting every bear in the area. I have seen as many as 19 different bears around the hatchery in a single afternoon! Needless to say, this is an opportunity worth the 5+ hour drive (one way) from Anchorage to Valdez. It's a good thing there are so many bears, otherwise one would never see them for the Gulls!
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This sow Black Bear just missed grabbing a Humpy, which is the first and only time that day I saw a bear miss a fish! Given the many thousands of Pink Salmon in the water I would not have thought it possible that a bear could have came up "empty handed"!
ValdezAlaskaFishingBearBlack BearSalmonPink SalmonHumpiesMammalSolomon Gulch Fish HatcheryUrsus americanusHumpysSowOncorhynchus gorbuschaAugust
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