mosbos

The begining of May this year my brother and myself had our first Grizzly encounter while fishing. We were fishing the Berland river between Hinton and Grande Cache. Saw the Griz at the campsite early in the morning and it took off like a bat out of hell. Later in the afternoon he had crossed hwy 40 and was on our trail on the east side of the hwy. Luckily we ran into him on a flood plain and not in the willows. He was a big boar. When he first saw us he turned and bolted away about 15yds. He then stopped dead wheeled around and stood up on his hind legs. After that he dropped down and started walking towards us. I snapped off a couple pics before I put my camera away to grab my spray. He worked his way around the fallen tree and we worked our way to the left. My brother had one popper as he misplaced his others. When the bear got closer to us on the right side of the tree my brother fired and it spooked him about 15-20 yds. It was enough where we crossed the river and he didn't follow us. A little earlier further downstream we had stumbled across this kill site so the grizz either had that scent or he was tracking or us. Thank god we turned back earlier as if we had kept on fishing we would have run into him on the deer at the killsite which was on a narrow area on the river. Anyways we lucked out and avoided a closer contact where we would have had to use the spray. First thing I did after this close call was went and bought some bangers because they definitely helped us out here. We had enough distance where they were effective. For the last 13 years all I carried was bear spray. Now it's spray and bangers.