Alaska Brown Bear Guide

Hunting the great Alaska brown bear is something that most North Amercian hunters dream about from their youth. It is indeed the stuff of fantasy, and takes the mind back to the days of Lewis and Clark and the giant plains grizzlies. Thoughts of facing down the largest carnivore (the debate still continues on brown bear vs. polar bear!) on Earth can certainly cause some hunters to grow weak at the knees, and rightfully so!

My desire to become a guide in Alaska has long been linked to my fondness for the big bears. Wildlife has inspired me from my earliest years and the brown bears of Alaska were certainly at the top of the list of animals that I desired to see in the wild, not to mention hunting. Personally I don't think anything quite breeds the excitement that the big bears do, especially if individuals wind up in close quarters with them.

Over the years I have studied, and researched, and studied again in an effort to find just the right combination of location and techniques in pursuit of brown bear in the great state of Alaska and I have come to a few conclusions. Some of these conclusions are common knowledge and others are gained from simple experience in the field. One conclusion that is important to all hunters interested in big brown bear is you have to look for the saltwater! It simply is the reality of Alaska brown bear hunting; you are not going to find the next potential world record very far from the coast, and all of the truly large bears are going to be found in the coastal regions where the salmon do roam in abundance. There are big bears in other areas, but not to be compared to the giants of the coast. It is a well known fact that the big brown bear of Kodiak and the Alaska Peninsula are simply without rival. The truth is, in Alaska, the brown bear simply get larger as one moves west. I recall a conversation I had with a longtime biologist for Game Managemnt Unit 9 (Alaska Peninsula) and he informed me that the area just northeast of McNeil River harbored a very good density of brown bear, but they were not overly impressive in size when compared to the bears toward the western end of the Peninsula. Individuals get into trouble when they begin to lump a region as large as the Alaska Peninsula into on generalized category of bear.

Alaska Registered Guide #1043 Tony Dingess with a Peninsula Brown Bear from 100 miles west of King Salmon

The area we hunt on the Alaska Peninsula is around 550 miles west of Anchorage, and we will only be hunting this area during the spring season of even numbered years since the Alaska Peninsula only has seasons managed for trophy quality, thus they have a spring season on even numbered years, such as 2006, and fall seasons on odd numbered years, such as 2007. This being the case we want to be able to offer fall and spring hunts every year so we will continue to hunt in Game Management Unit 19 and GMU 16B when we are not hunting on the Peninsula. We will not be hunting the fall seasons on the Peninsula unless we see improvements in the scenario there in the near future. The hunts in Unit 9 are also a geat deal more expensive, for all who outfit hunts in this part of the world and for those who hunt. Units 19 and 16B offer some great brown bear hunting and we are going to be concentrating on these areas in the spring and fall when not hunting the Peninsula, so stay tuned for the results!

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