Oh man, these stories are hillarious!! Keep em coming! When I read some of the silly stuff people do around bears it reminds me of others I have heard.- Hey KF, my uncle surely would have been a candidate for that Darwin award back about mid-century in Yellowstone. It was before they capped the garbage cans. A yearling blackbear was halfway into a tipped over can eating garbage. My unc & pals were a few feet away inside a cabin watching the bear while drinking JD. Unc up and grabs a long piece of firewood and sneaks up on the dinner guest and whacks it on the rump, and scampers back inside. Well the startled bear ran the other way but....!- And about guys scared half to death of bears; one of the guys that I mentioned fish Kings north of Terrace B.C. is like that. Whenever he hears the slightest sounds in the bushes he starts a rediculous routine of real loud barking like a dog. Might work? Don't some griz chase dogs? I have heard one story of just that, with a dog that had wandered off only to run squealing into camp with a griz on his tail! Good doggy- not.- And B-Run Steely; I spent my first 6 yrs. of life living in Missoula before moving to NW Oregon ever since. We often would take the longer route over Lolo Pass when we went back annually to stay with Gram & Gramp. As I got into Steelhead fishing I would marvel when looking at the Clearwater River's tribs, the Locksa & Selway, picturing huge nates swimming all that way up to there to spawn! Ditto for Stanley Basin on the upper Salmon R. Anyway, a couple Q's for U. Do the Locksa & Selway still get Steelhead or King nates up there? Or only B-run Dworshak hats in the Clearwater R.? And I have heard that there is a significant comeback of grizzlies in the Selway-Bitteroot Wildeness area, as well as in the Salmon R. montains. Any reflections on those 2 things? Thanks, Steve