We’re off and running in Alaska. The first week was spent hunting caribou on Adak Island, Alaska’s westernmost, and southernmost, city. Just seeing the WWII history in this place, and all the other military infrastructure, was incredible. Hundreds of homes and man
y buildings sit, vacant. Amazing to be in a town that once held 90,000 people, but now has 80.
Hunting here didn’t seem to be what it was five or 10 years ago, at least it surprised me and my buddies, Paul Atkins, Cory Kittle and Tim Delarm, who was filming the action for Alaska Outdoors TV. Supposedly there are nearly 3,000 caribou on the island, but we saw only a couple dozen during our time there.
There were more hunters than we expected, and only one small bull caribou killed between all parties, that we know of. We didn’t see any bulls. But that’s okay, because we were on a meat hunt. Since the caribou on Adak don’t migrate, I’ve heard it’s the best eating caribou in Alaska. The climate here is mild compared to other regions caribou call home, and the fact food is plentiful and predators nonexistent, means caribou aren’t too stressed.
With three cow caribou down, we were very happy, because the hunting wasn’t easy. If thinking of hunting Adak, be in shape, be ready to cover miles a day on foot, and take the pack frame to haul the meat off the mountain. If I was to go again, I’d head to the south end of the island and hunt from spike camp, but with all the other caribou hunting to be done in the state, I don’t have any plans of returning to Adak at this time.
As part of the episode, we show how to break down a caribou in the field, then haul it out of the hills.
With one TV show in the can, we headed to different parts of the island, but ran into more hunters and no caribou…we also ran into ptarmigan, lots of them. There were so many ptarmigan, we just kept walking and shooting as we went from hilltop to hilltop. Sometimes we couldn’t shoot because the birds would have plunged a few hundred feet into the ocean. It was the most beautiful place I’ve ever hunted ptarmigan, and we got an entire TV show from that hunt.
With two shows in the can from Adak, we flew to Anchorage, eager to film a late season coho and trout show on the Kenai. But plans changed due to a family emergency of one of our staff. So, I went to the Kenai without a camera crew.
I joined Eagle Claw representative, Bill Matthews, and noted guide, Mike Fenton (www.fentonbrosfishing.com). We ran the middle section of the river and landed a total of 19 coho (keeping 6, releasing the rest) and over 30 trout. It was one of the most enjoyable days of fishing in my life.
I quit counting at 150 bald eagles, saw moose, enjoyed calm waters with only a few other fellow anglers, and fished multiple ways. Mike taught me some things which you’ll be reading about in upcoming issues of Salmon, Trout, Steelheader, Fish Alaska and Alaska Sportsman magazines.
We caught some silvers twitching jigs, but most were landed on Mag Lips, which we casted from shore. I lost the biggest trout of the day, one eclipsing the 10 lb. mark, but that’s what keeps ya coming back. Trout were caught on beads, as there were so many coho in the river, eggs were outperforming flesh flies.
Temperatures ranged from 17º to 22º, but the nonstop action kept us warm…that, and the coffee Mike kept pouring! This was the coldest day I’d used my ThermaCell Heated Insoles in, and they worked perfectly.
Up next, we’re ice fishing in the valley, caribou hunting out of Kotzebue then chasing ducks in Valdez. Stay tuned!
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