30 days till AK bou.....

[cohoho]

Getting plans finalized for another jaunt up to AK for my beloved Caribou.....  Traveling light as everything I need is already there in place.....  Air Boating back 20 or so miles from launch..  Booked the flights and arranged for a beer at pickup in Anchorage with buddies... 

[carpsniperg2]

good deal lots of luck to you guys going out.

[Moose Eyes]

Sounds like a great time!  Take lots of pics!

[Thenewguy]

how does caribou taste?

[Michelle_Nelson]

Have fun up in AK.  Someday I will make it up there.

   Cohoho are you bringing us all back souvenirs?  I'm cheap I'll take a nice caribou cape!  or 2 or 3!  

[NWBREW]

Have fun up in AK.  Someday I will make it up there.

   Cohoho are you bringing us all back souvenirs?  I'm cheap I'll take a nice caribou cape!  or 2 or 3!  

I'm cheaper.....I just want to see pictuers and read stories. 

[carpsniperg2]

 

[DeerThug]

I really want to shoot a caribou.  Just a little too much $$ for me at this time....

[saylean]

Good luck man. Thats a hunt I really want to take in the next 5 years or so. Looking forward to reading the story, pics.

[BLKBEARKLR]

Getting plans finalized for another jaunt up to AK for my beloved Caribou.....  Traveling light as everything I need is already there in place.....  Air Boating back 20 or so miles from launch..  Booked the flights and arranged for a beer at pickup in Anchorage with buddies... 

Sounds like someone is going up the Ivy....

Have fun

[rasbo]

good luck sounds like a total blast

[cohoho]

Sounds like someone is going up the Ivy....
Have fun

Yep, but a splinter river off of it a bit of the ways up, of course depending on freeze temperatures in the mountains. Water can literally drop two feet in the course of the night and reverse rise two feet in the mid day.......  Did it several years ago and we slayed them...  Buddy bought his brand spanking new Air Boat last year so I gave him a year to be proficient and of course I get the co-pilot seat...  Love those things, they go in and out of the water as needed, if fact straight up to the camp site without getting wet...  His has a 350 versus big block but pushing, I think 400hp...  Should do fine, I tried to get him to big or go home with a 502 and 500hp but $$$$ rolled that out..  I got my video ready to roll...

[markts]

Good luck man. Thats a hunt I really want to take in the next 5 years or so. Looking forward to reading the story, pics.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   

[BLKBEARKLR]

Sounds like someone is going up the Ivy....
Have fun

Yep, but a splinter river off of it a bit of the ways up, of course depending on freeze temperatures in the mountains. Water can literally drop two feet in the course of the night and reverse rise two feet in the mid day.......  Did it several years ago and we slayed them...  Buddy bought his brand spanking new Air Boat last year so I gave him a year to be proficient and of course I get the co-pilot seat...  Love those things, they go in and out of the water as needed, if fact straight up to the camp site without getting wet...  His has a 350 versus big block but pushing, I think 400hp...  Should do fine, I tried to get him to big or go home with a 502 and 500hp but $$$$ rolled that out..  I got my video ready to roll...

Oh yes the river can go up and down quite a bit. You should be there for a good time with the big char that come up into there also. I have a couple of other places up there also that I used to hunt with a zodiac. Always awesome to wake up in the morning and have 100 caribou in the valley below you. Good luck and have fun up there.

Joe

[Kent Hunter]

Good luck Cohoho. Have a blast!!

[DeerThug]

So is this a do it your self trip - or guided? 

Just curious.  We are talking about taking our boys as a graduation trip.   Our first resarch looked like this would be too expensive.  may have to settle for a Wyoming antelope hunt.

[cohoho]

Self guided of course, lived up there for 10 years and just a reunion trip of sorts for a few old friends to get together and shoot some Caribou and have a g double o d time.
But seriously, when you start adding the cost up- depending upon what you want to do, Alaska is quite reasonable for sure..  Caribou and Black Bear opportunities are abundant, when you start adding Moose and other animals is when you get to the need of a guide or atleast friend that lives there for guidance.  Yea -a few do the DYI hunting, but most are really under 20% in success.   There is so much land in AK is unbelievable to Stateside thinking.  Anywhere near Anchorage and Fairbanks will be localized with of course locals, so the DYI without knowledge of the state will need to plan ahead of time and make a lot of calls for and research information.  Take Caribou for example, yea you can or could fly out to a herd and do well, but adding the drop off flights to the cost of airline tickets and tags and your going to be in the realm of $2500 each person, figure 500 for round trip commercial, 400 for tag and license and 1500-1600 for drop flight, not counting extra stuff that comes up... Or there are drive option like the haul road, 40 mile, Steese and Taylor Hwy, but you got to be able to go when it opens as it closes quickly most years...  Haul road is my personal favorite as it is only gas to get there and foot work after that, 14 hours from Anchorage......  If you can hike then rifle is good for the 5 mile corridor that is established, archery is tough as your not only going against the animals but the large volume of idiots and good hunters too along the road within the 5 mile cordoor...  The hike is like walking on a water bed with bowling balls and watermelons throw in randomly to keep you off balanced.......  (Tundra walking sucks)....  But the cost is hugely different than a fly out and I have never seen another person ever in eight trips for Caribou past the five mile mark....  You will have solitude for sure and high probability of success in harvesting a Caribou or two.... If you need information give me a PM as I know the areas up there very well, and am not secretive about the areas I hunted as Caribou are hard core migratory and maybe they'll be then again maybe not....................

[buckhorn2]

Your going to be a long ways from your sturgeon hole. There was one on the wall of fish and game in King Salmon and most of them did;nt even know what it was. Good Hunting.