My hunting partners and I are planning a float hunt for moose. Which areas would you recommend? Any outfitters who can help with boats and transportation? Thanks

Try getting a hold of Larry Bartlett from Pristine Ventures. He's a hunt planner and can set you up with all of that.

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Best place for a float hunt for moose

"Best place for a float hunt for moose"

I'd stick with rivers. Lakes and especially land are difficult to float for moose or otherwise.

Brett

PS>Joe Schuster would be a good person to contact.

Thanks, gents
Any specific ideas for locations of rivers to float would be welcome. western Ak? south?
thanks

I've never done a float hunt, but would like to someday with my boys, but I know some that have. You can book thru Wright's in Fairbanks, and they can drop you and your party off for moose, you can do the Coleen to the porcupine R. and get picked up in ft. Yukon or you can do the sheenjek...your choice. Wrights also have the gear to rent, call them or look them up. If your planning a 2014 hunt, you'd best to book now, cause they fill fastespecially after draw results come out...Hope this helps.

I'm also guessing, you have valid float experience, because floating here in AK is not for the faint, nor one thats floated several times, this place with it's elements will kill you quicker than a raging sow protecting her cubs. I would call a whitewater/float outfit place here in anchorage and talk to someone. You might want to do this guided.

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Originally posted by emron:
My hunting partners and I are planning a float hunt for moose. Which areas would you recommend? Any outfitters who can help with boats and transportation? Thanks

Try Henry Tiffany from Alaska Perimeter Expeditions.

We are talking to outfitters and transporters as recommended by the AR members. A few questions for the AK veterans:
we have a week: too short for a float trip?
Would it be better to fly in to a drop camp? Any suggestions of which location near Fairbanks?
Thanks guys

A week is even too short for a drop camp, unless you have some animals tied to a tree or something. Logistically, a week for the perfect hunt where you know where the animals are going to be, and you have the all the gear to do it would be sweet, but this is Alaska...and getting into the field by air sometimes takes a day or two, or three. The main thing to consider is weather, then you might want to think about conditions of the area, I've landed in areas where there was a perfectly long air strip only to find half of it washed away by late season snow melt. There's alot of things to consider, and one thing for sure in Alaska is, there's no Guarantee for a perfect hunt. I would plan at least 10-12 days for drop camp hunt for bou and or moose.

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Originally posted by emron:
My hunting partners and I are planning a float hunt for moose. Which areas would you recommend? Any outfitters who can help with boats and transportation? Thanks

Try Papa Bear Adventures. I used them for a DIY caribou hunt back in 2006 and did well. You can look back on that hunt report if you wish. It is in SW Alaska, and they operate out of Bethel. They can supply you with equipment if you desire, but, if it were me, I'd take all my own camping stuff because I've spent a lot of money on it and it would be better/cheaper than what I could rent from them. They put a lot of people on the various rivers for fishing and they know the area well. I don't think they would stack anyone on you. Also, the area they hunt is out of range for Anchorage-based outfitters so that'll cut down on some of the hunting competition.

P.S. Do not shoot a moose farther than you can hike a 125 lb hindquarter over some of the most treacherous terrain in the world. Meat has to stay on the bone in this area. Oh, and do not shoot more than one moose until you have the first cleaned and packed back to the raft.

Make sure you buy or rent a sat phone before starting your hunt.