For those of you wanting to rent cabins in Southeast Alaska for bear hunting, you might want to start doing that, NOW. Don't complain that Fin didn't warn you with plenty of time to spare.
Here is the link to the cabins on the Tongass National Forest. If you can't get it done with this level of direction, you don't deserve to go bear hunting.
You can make reservations 6-months in advance. Just made my reservations to go back to the same cabin we hunted from last year. I wanted to go later than last year, hopefully the first week of June.
That plan was going to work to perfection, until the world's best camera guy informed me that his first anniversary fell during that week. Too bad for him. Would just have to find a different camera guy.
But, after he begged and offered to do all the cooking and water filtering, if I would go in mid-May, I relented. We have booked the week of May 12th-18th, about ten days later than last year.
I had resolved to go later, due to the lack of bears and lack of green grass on last year's hunt. But like most other hunters, I have lots of other commitments I must work around.
I could have went the last week of May, but my son will be home from school for one week, before heading off for a 10-week internship. I wasn't going to be gone for the one week he would be home. Then have some work commitments that prevent me from going a few days later than what we have scheduled.
So, it will be another hard hunt. Bears will be more scarce. Troy is excited, as the steelhead fishing will be that much better. He has two days to fish on this trip, and that is it. If he can't finally hook one in that time, he can buy one from a guy fishing the docks of Petersburg.
Given the changes of Alaska going to a draw for bear in the SE, starting in 2012, I am not taking any chances. I am going this year. And when they go to a draw, I will go every year that I might luck out and draw the tag.
Here is the story from last year. Hope we can have half as much fun on this trip.
2010 Alaska Bear Thread
Here is the link to the cabins on the Tongass National Forest. If you can't get it done with this level of direction, you don't deserve to go bear hunting.
You can make reservations 6-months in advance. Just made my reservations to go back to the same cabin we hunted from last year. I wanted to go later than last year, hopefully the first week of June.
That plan was going to work to perfection, until the world's best camera guy informed me that his first anniversary fell during that week. Too bad for him. Would just have to find a different camera guy.
But, after he begged and offered to do all the cooking and water filtering, if I would go in mid-May, I relented. We have booked the week of May 12th-18th, about ten days later than last year.
I had resolved to go later, due to the lack of bears and lack of green grass on last year's hunt. But like most other hunters, I have lots of other commitments I must work around.
I could have went the last week of May, but my son will be home from school for one week, before heading off for a 10-week internship. I wasn't going to be gone for the one week he would be home. Then have some work commitments that prevent me from going a few days later than what we have scheduled.
So, it will be another hard hunt. Bears will be more scarce. Troy is excited, as the steelhead fishing will be that much better. He has two days to fish on this trip, and that is it. If he can't finally hook one in that time, he can buy one from a guy fishing the docks of Petersburg.
Given the changes of Alaska going to a draw for bear in the SE, starting in 2012, I am not taking any chances. I am going this year. And when they go to a draw, I will go every year that I might luck out and draw the tag.
Here is the story from last year. Hope we can have half as much fun on this trip.
2010 Alaska Bear Thread
