Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska Looking for a last minute plan B.

A group of 4 of us were supposed to be flying out on the 6th from Happy Valley for caribou. Our pilot called today and recommended that we don't come. Nothing like shutting it down at the last minute, but such is life with migratory animals and weather.

Three of us are scheduled to fly up on Friday the 4th from the lower 48, and we would still like to come. The fourth member of our group lives in the Anchorage area. So we have a home base of operation that we can work from. We are not against changing to a different caribou herd hunt or change it to a moose hunt, but have a feeling finding an air transport service with an opening last minute is probably not very likely. Open to suggestions! I have a couple different flight services that operate on the north slope I am going to call first thing in the morning to see if we can salvage our original hunt plan with a different air service first, then start exploring other options.

I will be coming up regardless even if its is just to hang with my buddy and do a little fishing, the other two will probably stay home, understandably.

Thanks!
Colin

I would get a second opinion. As to weather, if you do not like weather in Ak, you wait 30 minutes...

I am sure, I would not cancel a trip on just one phone call.

I would just save money wait until next year. Was it 70 north?

It was 70 north. I will also add though, my buddy has used them before and is confident in the fact that there is nothing fishy going on and that Mike is really just trying to keep us from wasting our money. We will be calling different transporters up there today though to verify.

I would definitely call couple other transporters up there. I think coyote air is one up there that people speak pretty highly of. They are based out of coldfoot it looks like

Been on the phone all morning and sounds like the weather is causing lots of troubles for people. Guys stuck at airstrips wanting to get out and guys stuck in the field trying to get home.

And not great hunting either...

The thing about Alaska by end of the week it can be in the 60's or 70's.

Or a full on blizzard

luck of the draw, hate it for ya.


always hated it for the guys that came what should be a good week of the season and due to weather or migration variances, just didn't really come together.

but I guess it's the difference in hunting and slaughtering


whatever you end up doing, I hope you have a great time up here and somehow lady luck smiles upon you.

one of my best seasons ever was last year. All we hunted was a good time, freezers still too full to hold a moose.


this year's a different story. One freezer is empty. It sure would look good with young mr. moose in there.

Looks like I was able to get us some flights out of Kotz. So were are changing things around quite a bit and gonna spend about $700 more a man, but we will be going hunting.

Every transporter I talked to over there had quite a few cancellations this year when they changed the limit for non residents from 2 bulls to 1. Not a problem for us, we only want to kill one bull a piece anyway. So found an outfit that was gonna be able to get us in on our timeframe. It's actually gonna get a couple extra days in the field since we won't be using multiple travel days driving up and back from Anchorage to Happy Valley. Also sounds like their hunt is going much better over there than up the haul road.

Silver lining. Have a good trip!

One stinky bull...I shoot the big cows..more meat ..no stink!