Bear Bums - Bear Hunting

Here are a couple of bear hunting tips regarding the ocean and tides. This will be helpful if you happen to be doing your black bear hunt with a boat and are subject to the Alaska tides.

A huge part of our Alaska bear hunts is the tide. Part of the reason that we chose the Salmon Lake Cabin on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska is because there is no tide on the lake….obviously. We had looked at other cabins in the Petersburg, Alaska area including, Big John Bay Cabin and the Tower’s Arm Cabin which would have been great for a fall Alaska bear hunting experience, but the low tides would not allow a float plane to land on the date we had to leave. It would actually be possible, but the pilots and biologists in the area strongly recommended against it. Read the rest of this entry »