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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    As a former and long time WA resident, I agree. You guys are getting high-holed by the AK fleet hard.
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    $$$$
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    Most of the saltwater fisheries in AK, including many of the trawl fleets, primarily harvest/kill WA/OR and Canada kings. The PNW kings tend to prefer the near coastal waters from Oregon north to AK whereas AK kings tend to spend their time farther north in the Bering until it’s time to come...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    They are unfortunately all but gone. Hasn’t been a legit 80lb fish landed in a few years now. They are such magnificent beasts. Far more animal than fish when you have your hands on them. Swimming dinosaurs.
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    By golly so it is. I’m still getting used to that reality. Thanks for catching that. Post updated accordingly.
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    The trawl industry is a massive problem for kings, halibut, orcas, and most anything that winds up in their path. How many Kenai kings die in the trawl fishery is not well understood or documented as far as I know. Seeing as how their rearing grounds, the Bering sea, and the trawl fleet...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    Apologies in advance for the long post. If you want to fast forward to the links at the end, here is the short version, I am hoping to drum up some public comments advocating for stronger conservation efforts for the imperiled king salmon runs on the world-famous Kenai River in Alaska. The...
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    Alaska Sheep Hunt Pricing

    That has already been happening for a long, long time.
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    Alaska Sheep Hunt Pricing

    Interesting proposition and best of luck in your new endeavor. A few thoughts and questions that I am sure you've probably already pondered and received feedback on. Why do current guides charge what they do for these hunts? I think a big part of the answer to that is because to conduct...
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    Scouting for giant moose: When is the best time?

    I had the same thought. Next up, "How to Be A Better Sheep Hunter, Buy A Super Cub." Snow on the ground is the primary factor that affects survey timing for moose. Winter mortality needs to be considered as well. Not all those big old bulls hanging around in November and December are going...
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    Aram Von Benedikt

    For me the pivotal moment was when the two hunting parties came together and what Aram knew and did in that moment. He knew the other party had shot at and wounded a collared deer. He knew that the party knew the direction of travel of the deer they shot and that they were setting out to...
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    Kyrgyzstan Ibex Permits

    Got this via email a week or two ago in the SCI newsletter,
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    Hunting guide???

    Aha! And here I was thinking it had something to do with money and not safety...
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    Hunting guide???

    Here in AK, non-residents are required to be guided for brown bear, sheep, and goats. Every years clients that book these trips find themselves being guided by other non-residents asst. guides that have never guided for or hunted the species for which they are guiding. Someone explain that...
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    Alaska Sheep Harvest 2023

    A friend who hunted sheep in Canada this year said that things are going the same way down there, but the guides are trying really, really hard to keep that quiet, as much of the business that had been going to Alaska is headed their way as the current perception is that they are still doing...
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    Alaska Sheep Harvest 2023

    Gotcha. Missed that first time around. Thanks for the clarification.
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    Alaska Sheep Harvest 2023

    Limits on animals that guides can take, and number of guides in an area varies from place to place. On state land, generally speaking, there are no limits on the # of guides in an area and the number of clients a guide or transporter can run. On fed land, some fed land managers limit # of...
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    Alaska Sheep Harvest 2023

    This is pretty much spot on from what I understand. Looking at the subsistence regs, when the regs spell out a specific permit number (FSXXXX), animals taken under those permits are reported to the feds and adfg for sealing. The elder hunts in Units 11 and 12 for example. These harvests show...
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    Public land Access may change

    Chicken Little would be proud.
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    Kyrgyzstan Ibex Permits

    A good friend and hunting partner went through a giant and massively expensive headache trying to get his trophies home after a hunt with Asian Mountain Outfitters in Tajiskistan a few years ago. I helped him work through some of the issues and learned some things in that process that may be of...

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