2016 Alaska Float Hunt

[3boys]

What a beast! Great pics.

[mwhite]

Wow!  Incredible hunt for you guys!  This is a hunt I'm beginning the planning stages for in 2018.

[MADMAX]

too cool some details  would be fabulous on how you did it
dream hunt

[Gringo31]

EPIC!

[Bigluke1981]

Congrats on some amazing bulls, sounds like you all had a blast!!!!

[mato06]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. This hunt was self-guided,  the air transporter provided the flights in and out and we provided everything else. We started planning for this hunt nineteen months in advance; reading books, choosing a transporter, going over maps, looking at harvest statistics, analyzing gear, buying gear and weighing it. We encountered grizzly tracks on the exposed sand (mud) bars the first few days before the river rose but never did see a bear. We saw seven wolves but unfortunately those who saw them didn't purchase the tags, we also saw about a thousand beavers. We fished a little the first few days without luck but after getting moose down we hardly had time for anything else besides break camp, load the rafts, float for eight hours, set-up camp and hang the meat. Our days typically stated at 7 AM and ended at midnight, several times later. We always tried to hang the meat as close to the river as possible. The unit we were in the bulls had to have a 50" minimum spread or at least 4 brow tines on one side, we decided against trying to judge the spread unless it was really obvious and only look at the brow tines. None of us were looking for trophies and we each took the first legal bull we saw.

[packmule]

None of us were looking for trophies and we each took the first legal bull we saw.

Ahhh, that explains why you didn't harvest any big ones  great bulls thanks for sharing!

[sumpnz]

Looks like you shot them right by the river's edge.  Did you just float along glassing and shoot them from the water once close enough?

Also, how many days into the float before you considered shooting something?  Was it cold enough out to limit worries on spoilage, and if not how did you handle that aspect?

[Axle]

Beautiful! Last time I hunted moose up there was in '91. I loved those hunts. What an adventure it was! Got any more pictures?

[Wea300mag]

That's a dream hunt, congrats!!!

[boneaddict]

Amazing

[jackelope]

Unreal. 4 bulls over 60" and they were the first legal shooters you saw. What a trip. I'd still have the ear to ear perma-grin going.

[HvyHorn338]

Sounds like a picture perfect experience.  Posts like these, just can't get enuf of.  Congrats.

[JoeE]

just hanging meat would have been a huge job. We just made a meat cache by stacking logs and laying the meat over it to get air flow under it.

[MtnMuley]

Amazing trip. Congrats to you and crew for planning and succeeding on an epic trip.