ALASKA PENINSULA BROWNIES
EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE NATIVE LAND
SPRING $33,000 FALL $28,000
This Alaska Peninsula hunt is on the southeastern side of the peninsula, one of the top brown bear trophy areas. The outfitter’s success on large boars in past years is mainly due to having exclusive rights to prime native land with 3 major bays and rivers, including over 30 miles of coastline.
2025 fall season finished with 10 hunters tagging 8 bears and one hunter crippled and lost a bear.
2024 spring season ended with 12 hunters tagging 9 boars, including an amazing 6 bears hovering around that 10 foot mark, best went 10 foot 4 inches.
Spring hunts are normally conducted on even numbered years like 2026 and then in 2028, from May 10 to 31. Fall hunts are on odd years like 2027 and then 2029, from October 1 to 21. Spring hunts are $33,000 and fall hunts are priced at $28,000 and also the easier time to hunt. Most hunters are successful in 7 to 9 days and a packer can be hired for $200 per day.
Hunts can be conducted out of base camp with the use of 4 wheelers or jet boats, but mainly this is a spike camp operation. Round trip flights from Anchorage to Sand Point run about $1,200 and the flight from Sand Point to base camp is included in the price. Current openings are fall 2027 or spring 2028. Hunt BR781. BR781 Hunt Photos.
ALASKA BROWN BEAR BOAT HUNT
2 AREAS OFF THE MAINLAND
SECOND HUNT CAN COMBINE BLACK BEAR
This small outfitter does brown bear, black bear and mountain goats with one of the hardest working crews you will find in Alaska. Hunts are conducted off his 45 foot vessel, typically taking 2 hunters at a time.
Spring 2025 first hunt May 5 to 15 his 2 hunters, both HCU clients, tagged 2 boars including a giant 9’4” with 26”+ skull and a real nice 8 and a half footer. Second hunt his 2 guys killed an 8 1/2 footer the first day out and the second hunter tagged a great 9 foot 4 inch boar later in the hunt. Both hunters were also successful on black bears. He only had one hunter for the black bear only hunt first week of June and he killed a real nice 7 foot 2 inch blackie.
Spring 2024 first hunt May 5 to 15 he had a rifle hunter and a bowhunter. The bowhunter tagged a nice 8 foot 8 inch boar the first day with no rubs. Rifle hunter passed on several bears before killing an 8 1/2 footer. Second hunt May 18 to 28 he only had one hunter, and he killed a monster 9 1/2 footer with 26 1/4 inch skull on day 5 and then hit and lost a black bear.
His third hunt is black bear only priced at $8,500 for 7 days and they went 3 for 3, best squared out at 7 1/2 feet.
Next available dates are 2027 for spring brown bear hunts at $35,000 1×1 for 10 hunting days. Hunters have the option to add black bear on the second hunt for $2,500 plus $2,500 on the trophy fee. Black bear only boat hunt first week of June is $8,500. Hunt BR838.
$19,500 ALASKA BROWN BEAR!
10 DAYS SPRING OR FALL
ADD MOOSE IN FALL FOR $23,500
This may be the least expensive Alaska brown bear hunt with a very experienced quality outfitter. He has an isolated lodge that even has a steam bath along the Hoholitna River about 75 airmiles northwest of Lake Clark. Five nice log cabins are used for accommodations. 10 day hunts typically run 80 percent success for both spring and fall bears averaging 8 to 8 1/2 foot, similar to southeast Alaska bears.
2025 spring hunt produced the normal 8 to 8 1/2 foot bear with 80 percent success. Fall season bear or moose/bear combo hunters killed 14 bears in the normal 8 to 8 1/2 foot class.
2024 spring he had 6 hunters tag 5 bears and, in the fall, his 16 brown bear hunters killed 13 bears, including a monster Boone and Crockett 9 foot 8 inch boar with a 28 3/4 inch skull!
The rest were all 8 to 8 1/2 foot.
10 day hunts are only $19,500 spring or fall. Spring hunts are April 14 to May 1. Snowmobiles are used on the spring hunts to access den areas and catch boars coming out of hibernation. Fall hunts start August 20 and finish September 25. They are spent glassing blueberry hillsides or checking moose kills. They utilize jet boats and quads in the fall. This brown bear hunt can be combined with moose for $43,000 and would be mid to late September.
Hunters fly from Anchorage to Port Alsworth for $500 round trip and then the outfitter will charter you into camp at his expense. 2026 spring and fall openings. Hunt BRSF781. BRSF781 Hunt Photos.
ALASKA BROWN BEAR BOAT HUNT
$35,000 10 HUNTING DAYS
Here is a highly successful southeast Alaska outfitter with over 30 years of experience that is not high profile like most of his competitors. He is not into doing sports shows or taking TV personalities and he does not shoot sows or small boars.
2025 first spring hunt he had 2 hunters, and they could only hunt 7 days due to their schedule, one tagged out the first day on well furred 8 1/2 foot boar. Second hunter couldn’t find a really good boar, so he went home empty even though he had 3 days left to hunt. Sure enough next day the outfitter saw a beautiful boar well over 9 foot. Second hunt he had a couple old buddies in their 70’s and somewhat handicapped. One tagged a really good bear just over 8 foot and the second hunter crippled and lost a good-sized bear.
2025 fall he only had one HCU hunter and they saw plenty of bears, but only females with cubs and small boars. There was an abundance of salmon that spread the bears out and made it more difficult. He was probably only the second fall hunter in the past 15 years not to shoot a bear.
2024 spring all 3 rifle brown bear hunters tagged out on bears 8 1/2 to over 9 foot, including the largest skull 25 3/4 measured by Fish and Game on Admiralty this spring. He also had one bowhunter miss at 20 yards and had multiple opportunities.
2024 fall was really good and both hunters were done by day 6 on really nice furred 9 foot boars. There were less fish than normal and less streams to hunt but overall was good.
10 day 1×1 brown bear boat hunt is $35,000 spring or fall. He plans on taking two hunters April 29 to May 9 and two hunters May 10 to 20. Fall hunts he normally takes two hunters September 15 to 26.
Accommodations are a 50 foot hunting vessel pulling along two 18 foot skiffs with 40hp motors to access the shoreline. He normally conducts hunts off the coast of Admiralty and across Chatham Strait off the mainland coast. Spring charter flights out of Juneau to or from the boat run about $350 per hunter. Fall hunts typically do not require a charter flight. Next available openings are in 2027. HCU’s Cliff Graham has been on this hunt. Hunt BR907.
#1 ALASKA GRIZZLY HUNT
$25,500 7 DAYS 1X1
2025 – 15 HUNTERS 12 GRIZZLIES
2024 – 37 HUNTERS 35 GRIZZLIES
This longtime Alaska outfitter/bush pilot acquired the first outfitting/guiding non-residents permit in the Noatak National Preserve for arctic grizzly in 2019, a large area located northeast out of Kotzebue. He will continue to run his high success grizzly hunt in country located adjacent to the Preserve, but this just gives him a much larger area.
2025 season started with extreme amounts of rainfall causing major flooding in all the rivers and several days were lost due to the weather. 15 hunters tagged 12 grizzlies and everyone had opportunities. Best bear had a 27 3/16 skull.
2024 turned out to be his best year yet. His 37 hunters tagged 35 bears, 1 sow, with an unbelievable number of 20 bears that would qualify for Boone and Crockett! 4 bears had skulls over 26 inches with the best going 26 10/16. Lots of bears squared 8 foot and the average was probably 7 1/2.
7 day grizzly hunts guided 1×1 will be $25,500 running from late August into early September. 2027 price will be $26,500. Grizzly tags are sold over the counter.
Hunters fly from Anchorage to Kotzebue for about $500 roundtrip, where they are met by the outfitter and flown to camp. Hunt GR247.