Otis Fishing Report UPDATE for September 23, 2023: Thirty minutes after we left you yesterday, we find Otis ready to make a big ol’ splashy… POUNCE!
And catch a bona fide, confirmed, no-doubt! FISH-y salmon!
Ten minutes later, cams catch our boy lying down and eating again. We’re thinking fish, but aren’t certain 100 percent. Then cams pan away and back, and Otis is in the tall grasses eating — where he’s taken live fish previously — and we want to think fish, but we’d rather err on the side of caution lest we be accused of padding the Royal Fish Count. 😉 This scenario repeats itself, and cams pan away again before we can collect more evidence.
There is much bear activity and cams are panning and zooming, just like the bears (we watch Rewinds at 10x speed, mind you) and later we find Otis is eating again. This time, he’s with a friend. We do know the cams compress depth of field, but, gosh, when we watch this play out it sure looks like Otis is sharing with one of his Guardian Angel Alices here. Good thing it wasn’t 903 Gully!
Again cams pan away, and we return to Downward Bear Yoga Otis. (Can you assume this pose? I’m unsure whether I can… we’ll report back!)
Unlike when he’s in his Office at the Falls, we can neither confirm nor deny that Otis is or isn’t Who Bear walking the grass line of the River Island in the dark, no matter how hard we try and with or without glasses. We’re looking to total at this point and struggling with 4 “probable” fish which are slightly nuanced from “potential” fish because the probability of wiggle is higher. So we decide, since we’re typically overly conservative in our counts, to split the difference — two as fish and two as DOAs. Because that’s fair, yeah?
And with that, we’re totaling the fish count for September 23 at 5 Fish + 25 DOAs with a margin of error on fish at +2 probables.
We’re catching up on reels since midnight now and we’ll check with ya later. Until then, sending Wishes for Fishes and a Sunshiny Day, wherever you are! ♥
Bear cam images in this post are copyright National Park Service and/or Explore.org
