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Ted’s look just about sums it up, the fishing, she ain’t so hot. At it’s peak, the river is boiling with salmon. For the last few days we could see them patrolling the waters but today, we have to strain to see fish in the water. Ted literally walked a lot of the river trying to find fish.
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Is that a spaghetti noodle or salmon he’s got there? It almost doesn’t seem it would be worth the while of a 800lbs bear to be spending energy for such a small thing, yet they do.
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Photographically, it was a challenge to make something of such small fish. Graphically speaking, when you used a shorter lens, you could barely see the fish. So that meant getting tight just to see the fish. When you get that tight, you look them right in the eye and there’s the challenge. Catching the look that tells the story. This guy caught fish after fish after fish and as such, was target of other bears like you see below.
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Despite their size, fish are fish and with a dimensioning supply each one was sought after. So as the day unfolded the tensions got hotter. This is just the start of one bear trying to find an easy meal from another bear. mtc
Photos captured by D3x, 600VR w/TC-17e (bottom) D3, 70-300VR on Lexar UDMA digital film