Alaska Peninsula Trophy Brown Bear

If you are truly after a ten-foot brown bear you may want to consider our fall brown bear hunting area in unit 9E near Port Heiden in the shadow of the Aniakchak Volcano. For this hunt you will fly from Anchorage Merrill Field to Port Heiden with Lake Clark Air. Season dates for this area are  from October 1st through the 25th of odd numbered years.

Over the years, this area has produced record book brown bears. In this area we are looking for 9 foot plus brown bear that can weigh as much as 1300 pounds. Nearly every season we take a brown bear that makes minimum scoring for SCI and Boone and Crockett. Hides typically square 10  feet plus from this area. Hunting is done from spike camps accessed by a Super Cub bush plane.

Hunters will be intercepting bear moving to and from their feeding grounds. The average day is spent sitting along the river glassing for brown bear feeding on salmon. When doing so, sent control is paramount. Hunting is primarily done along the streams and rivers, that are full of returning Bristol Bay sockeye and silver salmon. Brown bear will be feeding on salmon along these drainages. After feeding, bears will bed in nearby alders and rest. We place camps near these bedding areas, this has been very productive method for us over the years as brown bear move to and from the rivers. We set up and glass these travel corridors waiting for big brown bear to return to the brush or rivers to feed. The large mature bears are most often the first to take cover in the dense alders, often returning right at daylight.