Kodiak 2018

[bolsen]

If you haven’t made it to Kodiak for a Sitka blacktail hunt, make it happen. Amazing adventure. Here are a few pics. The two biggest bucks we killed were right around 100”. 

[bolsen]

Couple more

[Karl Blanchard]

Nice haul!!!!  I shot a few back when I commercial fished up there but have been itching to get back there and hunt them right  I'll be on the island for Mountain Goats here in a few months and can't wait

[ljsommer]

Good god. How do you get one person to be successful once, let alone that many people to be successful that many times? To me that's like getting all your friends and family together and all winning the lottery at the same time.

[High Climber]

If there was a HuntWa hunter of the year award I’m pretty sure @bolsen would have it in the bag this year! What a cool trip to cap off your amazing season. Congrats to you guys

[bolsen]

Haha thanks high climber, it has be a crazy year!! Got lucky a few times this season!
I’m lucky enough to have a best friend that moved up there about 10 years ago, so he really hooks us up with this hunt on his crab boat!
Good luck Karl!! We saw a pile of goats, and one of the guys with us actually killed one. Amazing animals!!

[bolsen]

Goat pic

[Karl Blanchard]

😍😍😍😍

[BULLBLASTER]

That looks awesome! Nice haul.

[CastleRocker]

Brings back a lot of memories!  Spent 12 years up there, and couldn't wait to get off the Rock.  Once I did...I've always wanted to go back.

[boneaddict]

Fun!!!

See any bears?

[wheels]

looks like a trp of a lifetime

[Magnum_Willys]

Worked as engineer on Alaska Marine Highways up there for a few years. Ready to go back. Nice!

[Sitka_Blacktail]

Nice job Bolsen! I lived there in the 80s and it's my favorite place to hunt deer.

For those who aren't aware and are thinking of a trip there, a boat hunt like bolsen made is the way to go if you can for one main reason. The bears can be atrocious and this year they have been particularly so. I have an acquaintance who guides there and his hunters have lost a lot of deer this year to bears coming into their camp and taking them. It's been a bad year for salmon and berries and the bears have been ferocious. Another guide was even saying they had to lay down covering fire for their clients to get back to his boat with their deer.  Hunting from a boat gives you a place to keep your deer until you are done hunting where you don't have to worry about the bears getting your hard earned catch.

Here's a couple threads about some of the troubles they've had this year.

http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php/162141-Kodiak-deer-and-a-update-on-the-BEARS!

http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php/162212-ANOTHER-Kodiak-Deer-electric-fence-update

[bolsen]

Fun!!!

See any bears?

We saw too many bears for my liking. We shot a buck one day, and the other guys we were hunting with called us on the radio, saying there was a bear headed our way. Luckily he went over the hill without coming to see us. Another time we created a ridge and there was a sow and 2 cubs 100 yards from us. She spotted us, walked toward us, and laid in crouch position with her head on the ground staring at us until we got out of there. Another bear back in Kodiak, 100 yards from my friends house. Standing in the middle of the street.