78 Bear On account of the shifting winds it was difficult to get near enough to see a bear before he got wind of us and made off. On at least half a dozen occasions we found salmon that were still bleeding where the bear had heard or more probably scented us coming and had dropped his fish and made off. There again the water would still be muddy where he had crossed a pool of water just ahead of us or perhaps we could hear him go crashing off in the brush in his haste to get away. Hasselborg got his first bear on Aug 2. He was working cautiously upstream and had just stepped out from behind the upturned roots of a windfall when he saw something move in the bend of the creek. Alto the bear wasn't more than 30 feet from him he could not make it out for sure on account of the tick. salmon berry bushes. The bear began to get suspicious and looked up.