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big28hunter
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September 14th our group arrived in Ketchikan, Alaska with only one more flight to our hunting camp. We had to take the ferry from the airport into town to board our last flight. We enjoyed a great meal at Annebelle's before heading to Pacific Airways float plane base.
Heading out to Thorne Bay I had high hopes of getting one of the islands famous black bears.
My first priority however, would be getting my buddy James one. This was his first out of state hunt and he had never taken a bear.
The first night of hunting we almost pulled it off on a creek loaded with sign. I saw a big bear come in across the creek and positioned James in front of me for the shot. I saw him one more time to our left but he never gave James an opportunity. Not sure what happened. Maybe it was our scent or the movement from us protecting ourselves from the little suckers eating us alive.
On this creek the sign wasn't hard to find. It was literally everywhere!
That evening Nick and Scott (both members on here) who didn't have bear tags were hunting sitka blacktail deer. Nick ended up seeing a really nice buck but couldn't get a shot at it. This was the only big buck the 6 of us saw all week. Does were everywhere and our group took 3 spikes for meat. I shot this little guy along the beach for our surf and turf night and Mike took his along an old logging road.
The second day James hunted a different creek with my buddy Mike who had successfully hunted the island before. They had a great day on the salmon creek as James pulled the trigger on this beautiful boar.
It was certainly a tough week of hunting as we were only seeing small bucks, does, and sows with cubs. Sign was everywhere for bear and deer though.
The fishing on the other hand was INCREDIBLE!
Heading out to Thorne Bay I had high hopes of getting one of the islands famous black bears.
My first priority however, would be getting my buddy James one. This was his first out of state hunt and he had never taken a bear.
The first night of hunting we almost pulled it off on a creek loaded with sign. I saw a big bear come in across the creek and positioned James in front of me for the shot. I saw him one more time to our left but he never gave James an opportunity. Not sure what happened. Maybe it was our scent or the movement from us protecting ourselves from the little suckers eating us alive.
On this creek the sign wasn't hard to find. It was literally everywhere!
That evening Nick and Scott (both members on here) who didn't have bear tags were hunting sitka blacktail deer. Nick ended up seeing a really nice buck but couldn't get a shot at it. This was the only big buck the 6 of us saw all week. Does were everywhere and our group took 3 spikes for meat. I shot this little guy along the beach for our surf and turf night and Mike took his along an old logging road.
The second day James hunted a different creek with my buddy Mike who had successfully hunted the island before. They had a great day on the salmon creek as James pulled the trigger on this beautiful boar.
It was certainly a tough week of hunting as we were only seeing small bucks, does, and sows with cubs. Sign was everywhere for bear and deer though.
The fishing on the other hand was INCREDIBLE!
