Mammal Print ID and Mini Report

MarshRat

MarshRat

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Did a little recon for some good swinging water in anticipation of this fall/winter season, across the line in the lower mainland of BC. After some bushwhacking and channel crossing I stopped for my granola bar break, and inadvertently sat down my pack next to a couple really nice prints.

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I rarely see prints where I normally fish, so I’m not sure what I’m looking at. Black bear? Mountain lion? Ross 5/6 size reel for scale.

Anyway, the 6 weight ended up seeing some use to my surprise.

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Watched this really nice whitefish pikeminnow track my jig streamer down. Pictured in my XL deep net.


Would love to hear some thoughts on the print, as I was without bear spray and would happily carry spray if warranted. Cheers.
 
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Not the best print but I would say bear and not cougar based off it having claw marks. I posted some black bear prints yesterday in the cell phone pics thread also. The first ones are what I typically see and the second set of prints were twice the size although hard to tell and very obvious claws.

That also looks like a pike minnow in your net? Need to get over to BC myself one of these days! Nice.


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jeradjames said:
Not the best print but I would say bear and not cougar based off it having claw marks. I posted some black bear prints yesterday in the cell phone pics thread also. The first ones are what I typically see and the second set of prints were twice the size although hard to tell and very obvious claws.

That also looks like a pike minnow in your net? Need to get over to BC myself one of these days! Nice.


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Interesting, are the bigger prints just a bigger bear? Or just some kind of double print? Good call on the pikeminnow, 100%.
 
Almost garuntee that's one!!! Almost GARAUNTEE that's a Bigfoot. Some of these areas have several KNOWN TO BE. Side of that print's just melting out due to the MUD. Almost GARUNTEE that's one!!
 
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