Lying on a gravel bar in the middle of a tiny creek in remote Alaska, I brought a brown bear into focus through a telephoto camera lens. It was neck-deep in water, head resting on a fallen tree limb, ...

While guiding two clients down an Alaskan creek, we hit a snag—a bear, feasting on a salmon, right in our path. The creek was narrow, with no safe passage on either side. "We'll wait it out," I told ...

The realities of fly fishing Alaska, whether you are a guide or doing a DIY trip, are that you need to equip yourself with bear protection. What that bear protection is is personal and up to the ...

CORNELL, Wis. — A Wisconsin family out for an evening of fishing, got caught instead in a Winnie the Pooh moment. “Winnie’s cousin,” Brian Hurt laughed. Brian, his wife Tricia and son Brady were ...

Mirror, mirror on the wall - which bear is the fattest of them all? After months of preparation, the brown bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park will finally get their answer. Fat Bear Week is back!

I spent 20 years guiding in Alaska. Either you get comfortable fishing around the Alaskan brown bear or you quit. The learning curve is steep, and the only way through it is trial and error—you just ...