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Alaska Big Game Hunting

Exclusive - Use Guide Area

Alaska Peninsula Trophy Brown Bear Hunt
AT THE END OF THE ALASKA PENINSULA, between Cold Bay and False Pass , Alaska is my unique trophy brown bear camp, home to some of the world’s largest brown bear!  I hold the exclusive-use guide area permit for this region within the world famous Izembek National Wildlife Refuge – my guides and I are the only guides allowed to legally hunt within this region.  My area encompasses most of the land surrounding Morzhovoi Bay and we have had excellent success in this area on truly world class bears.  Under my exclusive-use guide permit I am allowed three bear permits each fall and three bear permits each spring and thus far all bears harvested have squared over 10 feet, save one bow hunters brown bear that squared at 9’ 11” !  In 2006 we harvested a WORLD RECORD brown bear that had a skull measuring nearly 29 inches! Here are some pictures. Click on the thumbnails below to see them in full size.

This region of the Alaska Peninsula consistently produces some of the largest, record-book brown bear in the world!  You can expect to generally view up to 10 to 30 bears during your hunt - my hunters have seen as many as half a dozen individual bears in one day - and you can generally expect to have the opportunity at 9' to 11' bear in this area.  The largest bear I have guided a hunter to in this area was an over 10 foot boar that had a green-scored, sealed, skull measurement of 30 15/16” – again the potential the new world record brown bear!   This is not usually a terribly physical hunt, as compared to a Dall sheep hunt for example, though at times it requires walks of a few miles and in some camps climbing as much as a 1,000 feet in elevation.

We have three separate camps situated throughout the area, each with a guide and hunter in each camp.  The camps are generally comprised of two “Bomb Shelter” style (approximately 9’x9’ tents), one of which is used as the cooking and dining tent and the other as the sleeping tent.  Cots are provided in the sleeping tents to aid in comfort and all hunting within the area is done on foot.

This remote bay is the farthest west bay on the Pacific Coast mainland of North America .  In fact it is even farther west than most of Hawaii .  At the head of the Bay, only a few miles of rolling tundra separates the mighty Pacific Ocean from the treacherous Bering Sea . 

This hunt does require patience, resilience to inclement weather, and sometimes just plain “nasty” storms, and a great deal of glassing.  It is almost guaranteed that you will lose at least two or three days, at a minimum, of hunting due to bad weather and that is why, unlike many other Alaska, Peninsula guides, I make all of my brown bear hunts 14 days!  Though this secluded bay is logistically expensive and difficult to get to, if you are looking for a huge, potentially record book, brown bear and an adrenalin pumping experience you'll not soon forget, this is the place to hunt!