When the salmon show up in the rivers, it's a bear haven. / photo by Ken Baldwin The realities of fly fishing Alaska, whether you are a guide or doing a DIY trip, are that you need to equip ...

For a moment the bear paused, still on two legs. That’s when I turned to my buddy, David Stumpf, and hollered for him to get his pistol. Stumpf was 25 yards behind me, around a bend in the gravel bar, ...

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 ...

His “Zen” fishing technique allows him to expend the least amount of energy, and his choice to move from the more competitive “jacuzzi”—where he fished as a more dominant bear in his ...