Another self guided moose trip without a moose. Any ideas on a good area for moose next year? What about transporters? My luck has been bad so I don't think I can get a partner next year. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff

Try Mark on Alaska Outdoor Directory,,

alaskahuntplanning.com

He's done a great job for some aquintances

Thank you waterrat. Is that Mike or Mark. The page said Mike. Maybe I didnt get it right. Thank you.

What about the Koyukuk NWR?

I went on a self guided hunt there years ago and it was one of the most memorable trips i've ever did.

At one time, it had the highest moose population per square mile anywhere. Not sure about now.

We took a transporter out of Galena. He doesn't do it anymore, but it appears as though Galena Transporting and Guiding does. I don't know anything about them, but their Tel.# is (907) 656-1401 and e-mail is: johnstam@starband.net

If you draw a tag and actually get out of the boat and hunt some of the clearings a little ways back, i think you'd have a good chance.

Thank you Northman. I will check them out.

Give Papa Bear Adventures a call at 907 543-5275. They are out of Bethal, AK. Any bull with horns is legal. We hunted with them four different times and could of shot a bull each time! These are a 52" and a 50". We saw bigger but could not close the deal.

Jeff,

I would find some good transporters and then call the game biologists for each area you are looking at. They will tell you where the best populations are. This is what we did, and then got some good topo. maps. Unreal how much these maps helped.

Like i said earlier, if you get out of the boat, find some clearings and do some calling, you should have a good chance.

Babe Winkleman was up in the same area we hunted (with the same transporter), never got out of his boat, and they got squat!!!

Brett. That sounds like a good way to get started. Thanks, Jeff

A few tips, make sure you hunt during the rut and also take plenty of time as weather can wipe out some days and also go for a float hunt on a river system that is lightly hunted. I could share some details from my planning in the past by PM.

Only time my family always got two moose a year was when we lived In Sutton in MatSu; and I couldn't live that urban now anyway, no matter how many moose I could shoot.

We live on the Yukon and usually don't get a moose every season, but always get half a moose given to us and always get all the bou we can eat. This season, we (family) got three bulls and I gave half of it away.

Many areas of Alaska have been decimated by wolves & bear predation; low moose numbers. Still, if ya float a river, you'll see moose. Hunt licks, you'll see moose. Learn an atv trail that goes back in 20 miles, you'll get a bull. One local trail few miles from my place, we use to get a couple bulls off it every season. Then this outside group from juneau started posting guys all along the trail and they started getting 4-5 bulls every fall off the trail. Actually, the locals had other places where they didn't have to look at all kinds of people so it wasn't no big thing.

You can spend money on a guide, you can do a drop off fly in, or you can learn the country in a certain area, figure it all out and start getting moose.