Alaska brown bear finds nose jewelry in tackle box

WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS — A brown bear cub that nosed around in an angler’s tackle box stood out in the crowd for a few days along the Chilcoot River near Haines, Alaska.

State Fish and Game biologists caught up with the bear, tranquilized it and removed the treble hook of a Pixie lure from the little guy’s nostril last week.

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