Bear Hunt - Alaska Coastal Bears
July 24, 2008
by Mike Whelan.
I had a great six day black bear hunt with Dave Benitz. Dave runs Stikine Guide Service out of Petersburg, Alaska. We hunted off of his boat the Sandpiper, moving and staying in small bays and inlets along the islands and mainland with in thirty or forty miles of Petersburg. The Sandpiper was our home base and from it, we would use a sixteen foot skiff to motor along the shores and glass for bears feeding. I had at least one archery stalk a day and sometimes more than one on good boars. To me this was great archery hunting, good stalking and big bear. Dave is a great person to be with and a very good guide, plus his cooking is pretty darn good. We saw 50 to 60 black bear in six days, Dave said that is probably low for his hunts and, naturally, he sees all the bear first. Don’t try to spot bears before him, it just doesn’t work, his son Deven and I spent our days discussing cameras, sea otters, humpbacks and halibut. I shot a good boar, had a great time and couldn’t recommend his hunts any higher than just flat excellent.
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