Kodiak Island Brown Bear Hunting with Alaska Registered Guide Kevin Adkins
What You Should Know:
There is a great deal of planning and preparation that goes into organizing any hunting or fishing trip. This is especially true with a big game hunt.
Alaska State law requires that each big game hunter enter into a contractual agreement with his or her guide. There are also License, Big Game Tags and in many cases Land use fees that must be ironed out well in advance. We would like to encourage the sportsman that is considering any trip to start your planning process well in advance.
The Alaska State permit drawing applications are due in the spring ( on or before 5 / 31) for a possibility of drawing a permit for a fall hunt & in the fall ( 12 / 6 ) for the possibility of drawing a spring permit.
We are eager to help you in all stages of your hunt including and especially getting through all of the initial preparations so that your Kodiak Wilderness Adventure is one that will spawn a lifetime of incredible memories.
Spring Brown Bear Hunt $15,000.00
One guide / One Packer
April 15 - April 30
May 1 - May 15
Fall Brown Bear Hunt $15,000.00
One Guide / One Packer
One incidental Sitka Blacktail Deer
October 25 - November 8
Included in our Big Game hunts: 15 days fully guided hunting for Kodiak Island Brown Bear & (Fall hunts only Sitka Blacktail Deer), Transportation from Kodiak State Airport to Port Lions and the field and return to Kodiak upon completion of hunt. All meals and Lodging while in Port Lions and the field. Preparation of Trophies and Meat for transport to Taxidermist or your home. Any and all land use fees and permits associated with hunt.
Not Included in our Big Game Hunts: Hunting License, Big Game Tags, Drawing Application Fees,
Deposits: A 50% deposit is required to reserve your hunt. This deposit is refundable until you have drawn a permit at witch time the remaining portion of the cost of the hunt
Kodiak Wilderness Adventures is now accepting reservations for the 2008 Fall & 2009 Spring Kodiak Brown Bear seasons.
There's No Place Like Home
From our home here in the community of Port lions on Kodiak Island, we are afforded the luxury of conducting hunts for these largest of all land roving carnivorous bruins on a level that can be seldom out done. We are able to provide the sportsman in pursuit of one these giants with several options according to his or her abilities as well as desires.
The Kodiak Island Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos Middindorfi) are found throughout the entire Archipelago of Kodiak. This group of islands stretches from north to south for a distance of nearly 150 miles & from west to east almost 50 miles. These various Islands differ in topography and vegetation from rain forest to tundra. From our location, we hunt four of the largest islands in the group, Kodiak Is., Afognak Is., Raspberry Is., & Whale Is.
An Alaskan Registered guide may register for no more than three guide use areas per year throughout the entire State of Alaska. We make our home here on Kodiak Island and have been hunting Kodiak and the surrounding Islands exclusively for the past 20 years.Therefore we select the three guide use areas that are literally right out our backdoor.
This gives you, the hunter that is looking for the trophy of a lifetime, the benefit of; our local knowledge, our acute understanding of the game we pursue, our familiarity of the areas that we are hunting & our understanding of the timing that is most crucial to a successful excursion.
Combine these facts, with our strong desire to provide each & every client that we guide into the field the highest quality outdoor experience whether it be on a big game hunt, fishing trip or waterfowl hunt and you have a surfire recipe for success!
The Kodiak Island Brown Bear Population is very Stable
The Alaska Department of Fish & Game has determined that our Brown Bear populations are in fact growing Island wide & is proposing an increase in the harvest levels of these Bears on the Northern end of the Islands, which are the areas that we hunt.
The Kodiak Island Brown Bear Hunting Permits are only accessible through a State wide drawing lottery. The application process for this drawing is very simple and can even be accomplished online. It is part of your guides' job description to assist you in this task. Here On Kodiak Island it is mandatory that all guides that wish to conduct hunts within this Game management Unit (#8) be pre registered for the areas that we are intending to hunt & each of us may submit no more applications for our clients permits than the total number of permits that will be issued TRANSLATION (a single guide can't flood the drawing with a billion names, therefore every one has a fair chance to be drawn).
Kodiak island Brown Bear Hunting in the Spring is possibly the greatest trophy hunting experience that North America has to offer
The Spring Kodiak Island Brown Bear hunting season opens on April 1st & closes May 15th. Our hunts are 15 day hunts and we run from April 15th - 29th & May 1st - 15th.
Beginning the hunts 15 days after the season opens is beneficial to our hunters in two primary ways. The first benefit is that our spring time weather usually starts to really accelerate on or about the middle of April.
The second benefit is that there is a substantially greater number of Bears emerging from their dens after the 15th of April. There are approximately two to three golden weeks of Bear hunting during the Kodiak Island Spring Brown Bear Season.
During this period we see an ever increasing number of bears freshly emerged from their dens each day. This is of significance because the greater numbers of bears that we see each day, the better the chances are that the next bear spotted will be the well furred trophy that you are looking for.
We access the hunting grounds from our starting point here in Port Lions by several modes of transportation. The main method of transportation is our 40' boat the Amy Lorese. This vessel is very well appointed and incredibly sea worthy. We are able to use this boat as a base camp when hunting two of the areas that we use. This allows for a very comfortable hunt with almost all of the comforts of home. We also use this boat for transportation to & from our favorite camp locations.
These camps are strategically located in areas that are known to us to have the highest sighting of bears in our hunting areas. Our base camps are traditional type camps utilizing heated wall tents, comfortable cots, & plenty of covered vestibule areas to keep our essential gear out of the weather. Other methods of transportation include small outboard powered skiffs (handy for accessing the beach ) and all terrain vehicles (useful in accessing camps that are a great distance from the shoreline).
Kodiak Island Fall Brown Bear Hunting is also an incredible North American trophy hunting experience.
The fall Brown Bear hunting Season open on the 25th of October Here on Kodiak Island and continues until the 25th of November.
During this season we have the opposite situation of that witch occurs in the spring. (Each days is getting a little bit shorter and bears are retreating to their dens rather than emerging from them) This makes for a tougher hunt but It is my opinion that a fall Kodiak Island Brown Bear after having fed on Salmon all summer is as fine a trophy as can be attained. With the fall season being as late as it is, the fur of these bears is also primed up by the time that we begin to hunt them. Therefore when a bear suitable size is spotted, one need not worry about the condition of the hide.
Our fall season has other beneficial points of interest to the trophy hunter as well. Kodiak Island and all of the islands of her archipelago are home to a very large population of Sitka Blacktail. These close cousins of the Columbia Blacktail & Coastal Blacktail not only grow larger here on Kodiak Island than anywhere else that they inhabit, they also are better tasting than any other venison. The current # 1 SCI Sitka Blacktail buck was taken in one of the areas that hunt. Sitka Blacktail Deer on Kodiak Island begin their rut on or about the 1st of November. This timing coincides with our fall Brown Bear Hunting season. We will usually concentrate solely on getting a trophy Brown Bear before pursuing a good buck however if a hunter is fortunate enough to have a chance at a record book buck we will often switch gears to pursue one of these fine trophies.
