There are two primary
locations to hunt Sitka Blacktail deer in AK: Prince of Whales (POW) and
Kodiak Island. Both offer excellent opportunities for hunting.
Prince of Whales (POW)
POW offers early
season hunting during August and September in the high elevations. This can be
highly productive but count on spending most of your time hiking through dense
forest and sometimes incredibly steep terrain to reach an area you can hunt. On
POW there are numerous options to rent trucks and/or cabins that are very
affordable, providing you with some of the creature comforts of home and keeping
you out of a tent in bear country. There are also vast networks of roads that
can suit folks who don’t want to or can’t hike every day. Road hunting is a
type of hunting that many frown upon but it can be a successful way to hunt and
get around.
When researching POW,
I contacted many of the lodges that offer transport or just room and board.These
were easily found online if you search “Alaska Sitka Blacktail POW deer hunting”.
All of these folks were very responsive and many specialize in alpine hunting
in August. POW is definitely has the price advantage as well as the comfort
when it comes to early season AK hunting.
However, I decided against POW because I have experienced Alpine hunting
in my home state and wanted to experience some new terrain.
Kodiak Island
Kodiak is much more
isolated and offers a few different options for the early season hunter; hunting
the road system, hunting out of a lodge, or being flown into one of many remote
locations throughout the island.
There are only about
100 miles of roads that you can access from the town of Kodiak, AK so options
for hunting from the road system can be somewhat limited. You can fly into
Kodiak with your gear, rent a car/truck, hit the road system, park and hunt
“up” to the high elevations to chase deer.
I found out that this can be a great way to get your deer on a tight
budget. This is a popular means of
hunting for locals.
The northern half of
Kodiak is mostly privately owned and heavily timbered, but there are quite a
few lodges that offer a nice base camp for a wet early season hunt. The downfall
to these lodges, like on POW, is that most of the deer are up at high
elevations and require a long hike through dense forest to get to where the
deer are.
The last option is to
hire a float plane to drop you off at one of Kodiak’s many remote lakes,
recreation cabins, rivers or beaches located within the 1.9 million acre Kodiak
National Wildlife Refuge. Due to the remoteness these fly-in locations they can
offer some of the best opportunities for a trophy deer. I decided this was the best fit for us, so
from here on out I will focus my discussion on DIY drop camp hunting for Sitka
Blacktails on Kodiak, AK.
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Kodiak Island's remote
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