Kodiak Wilderness Adventures offers Alaska Sea Duck hunting right in the heart of the wintering grounds of nearly every species of Alaska Sea Ducks that there are. These birds migrate to Kodiak Island each winter to feed on the rich sea life that will hold them over until their return to the nesting grounds on the tundra of the far north.

December & January Sea Duck Hunts
Our Alaska Sea Duck Hunts are geared for Taxidermist & Specimen collecting Sportsmen that are interested in high adventure while enjoying a top quality hunt conducted by Professional guides with an unsurpassed safety record. These hunts are available throughout the months of December & January (season ends January 22nd.) We run all of our hunts from our Lodge right here in Port Lions on Kodiak Island. These hunts include 5 days of hunting and 6 nights of lodging. Your Alaska Sea Duck Hunting Adventure starts when you land at the Kodiak, Alaska state airport. From there you will be met by either your guide or a representative of one of our local air services. You will then continue your journey to our lodge in the tiny bush village of Port Lions. Once everyone is at the lodge and settled in, we will spend the remainder of the afternoon and evening preparing for the hunt by issuing hunting license & duck stamps as well as going over our plans for a successful hunt and top the day off with one of Katy’s fabulous meals. Sea duck hunting on Kodiak Island is primarily done over decoys from shore blinds or floating blinds that we carry with us onboard our very well appointed 40 foot long boat. Because we are hunting on Saltwater, the shoreline is always changing with the tidal fluctuations and this gives us countless locations to set up for a shoot. Due to the far north proximity of our location and the lateness of hunting in December and January, shooting times are limited to about 7 hours per day. This means we don’t have to be in the blind at 4:00 am. We will be starting our days with a hearty breakfast at 6:30 and we try to leave the boat harbor about 8:00, (shooting time is generally a little after 9:00am) this puts us on the hunting grounds after a 20 to 30 minute boat ride, in plenty of time for the morning flight. We provide a guide per two hunters and a layout blind, decoys and dog in each of the spots that we decide to hunt first thing each morning. As the day progresses, we may need to move our position depending on the bird traffic. There is almost zero pressure on the Sea Ducks in our area and these birds tend to be creatures of habit when it comes to their feeding grounds, so our decoy sets will usually be very productive for 3 to 4 hours before we have to reposition to finish off the day. Our Sea Duck and Puddler decoys are all hand painted and primarily consist of Herter’s foam bodied, unsinkable decoys. These decoys are incredibly realistic & when properly placed in the lea of a windy point of land seem to suck the ducks right in.

Alaska Sea Duck hunting on Kodiak Island is not something that is recommended for the faint of heart. We will typically have temperatures ranging from a low of 5 degrees in the morning to somewhere just above freezing during the heat of the day.

Our Sea Duck hunting guest are typically treated to opportunities that will allow them to take as many as seven different species of Alaska’s Sea ducks. Varieties common to our area are the Common, Surf & White Winged Scoters, Harlequin, Old Squaw ( Long-tailed duck ), Red Breasted & Common Mergansers. Less common Sea Ducks but occasionally taken are the King & Common Eiders. We also have very high numbers of Barrows & Common Golden eye & Greater Scaup. These later birds are not included with your Sea Duck limits in Alaska but are rather considered a puddler along with Bufflehead. These last four species mentioned utilize much of the same feeding areas that are frequented by the Sea Ducks and therefore provide additional shooting opportunities. Kodiak Island is also home to countless year round resident populations of Mallards. These birds are an unexpected treat to collecting sportsmen due to their fine plumage when taken this late in the year. Other species of waterfowl that are occasionally taken consists of Green Winged Teal, American Widgeon, Eurasian Widgeon, Gadwall & Pintail. The Alaska Department of Fish & Game regulations allow for Nonresident licensed hunters to take up to 7 Sea Ducks per day and posses up to 20 per season. Additionally a Nonresident may not posses more than 4 of any the following species per season. Common Scoter, Surf Scoter, White Winged Scoter, Harlequin, Old Squaw ( Long-tailed Duck), Common Eider & King Eider.

To book a Sea Duck hunt with Kodiak Wilderness Adventures
Feel free to give us a call at any time. (Remember that we are in Alaska and that our time zone is four hours behind the East coast of the U.S). We will be offering five time slots for the 2007-08 Sea Duck Hunting Season. These Hunt dates will be during the months of December 07 & January 08.
December 2nd through the 8th & December 9th through the 15th.
January 3rd through the 9th / January 10th through the 16th & January 17th through the 23rd.

A 50% deposit is necessary to reserve the time slot of your preference. (This deposit is refundable if the time slot can be filled at least thirty days prior to your scheduled arrival).

Included in the price of your Alaska Sea Duck Hunt On Kodiak Island
5 days fully guided hunting, 6 nights lodging, all meals, transportation from the Kodiak Island State Airport to Port Lions, Round trip, preparation & proper packaging of your waterfowl. Not Included in the price of theses hunts
Shotgun shells, Alaska state hunting license, Alaska state waterfowl stamp, federal migratory waterfowl stamp, Alcoholic beverages, (you may purchase this in the town of Kodiak and bring with you to Port Lions).

$ 3,595.00 Per Hunter



Kodiak Island Brown Bear Hunting with Alaska Registered Guide Kevin Adkins

Kodiak Wilderness Adventures is now accepting reservations for the 2007 Fall & 2008 Spring Kodiak Brown Bear seasons. 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 weather 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.

To Book a Big Game with Kodiak Wilderness Adventures

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