Lodges on POW?

[limpet]

Looking for reviews of lodges people have used on prince of wales. My dad and I are planning a trip for blacktails next fall and are wanting to do the self guided lodge based type hunt late October/ early November. We’ve looked at Coffman cove and Eagle lodge but we’re open to any other input. Any real world experiences with the lodging and/or the crews working there would be great. Thanks

 

[roosiebull]

Looking for reviews of lodges people have used on prince of wales. My dad and I are planning a trip for blacktails next fall and are wanting to do the self guided lodge based type hunt late October/ early November. We’ve looked at Coffman cove and Eagle lodge but we’re open to any other input. Any real world experiences with the lodging and/or the crews working there would be great. Thanks

I have been casually researching the same thing, I really want to kill one of those orange antlered pow bucks. When the time comes, if I end up going solo, it will be a lodge based trip on pow, if my wife and daughter want to go, it will be a Kodiak trip with more creature comforts, but one way or another, sooner than later, I’m going to pow for a week or 10 days solo and will kill that orange antlered buck… as boring as it may be, that is my main bucket list hunt, I love blacktail deer, and the Sitka BT on pow are the very prettiest deer in the world

Look forward to seeing any other suggestions on this thread, and if I get any other ideas, I will share them here

 

[Ridgerunner]

Tagging this as it is a bucket list trip for me as well.

 

[limpet]

I have been casually researching the same thing, I really want to kill one of those orange antlered pow bucks. When the time comes, if I end up going solo, it will be a lodge based trip on pow, if my wife and daughter want to go, it will be a Kodiak trip with more creature comforts, but one way or another, sooner than later, I’m going to pow for a week or 10 days solo and will kill that orange antlered buck… as boring as it may be, that is my main bucket list hunt, I love blacktail deer, and the Sitka BT on pow are the very prettiest deer in the world

Look forward to seeing any other suggestions on this thread, and if I get any other ideas, I will share them here

What has you leaning towards Kodiak if you bring your wife and daughter?
Nothing boring about chasing Sitka’s. I agree the bucks I’ve seen are gorgeous. If this trip goes well I think we’ll go back in August and chase velvet bucks in the alpine.

 

[Rowdy99]

Going to Coffman cove with a black bear tag in June. Will report back after

 

[roosiebull]

What has you leaning towards Kodiak if you bring your wife and daughter?
Nothing boring about chasing Sitka’s. I agree the bucks I’ve seen are gorgeous. If this trip goes well I think we’ll go back in August and chase velvet bucks in the alpine.

More deer, I would expect POW a lot more of a grind, and even harder to have consistent encounters with 3 people. Kodiak has more hunting catered trips and the likelihood of deer encounters are higher since there are more deer and you can glass them up and plan a stalk.

My plan for pow is to stay at a lodge, and rent a pickup and go start grinding it out blind, and I don’t think the girls would enjoy that kind of hunting catered trips, especially in typical late Oct/mid November weather

When I was younger I spent 13 months based out of Craig, but we spent most of our time anchored up on the west side of Dall, and the guy who unloaded our boat hunted and I tagged along a few hunts and it just doesn’t seem like a hunt my wife and daughter would enjoy, and they don’t have the very particular goal that I have… besides the weather and terrain, I do think they would like Kodiak

The alpine hunting is interesting to me, it looks like a ton of fun and absolutely gorgeous country, but I can’t stand the thought of killing those deer in velvet and summer coats, knowing how much cooler they are in a few months. I would like to tag along on a hunt like that, but I’m not a velvet guy, but I assume the beautiful country probably makes up for the plain deer, but when I go up there, it will be to collect a specimen of the prettiest deer in the world

Doesn’t have to be a giant, I just want it to be a good representation. I can’t believe I didn’t hunt the year I was up there, but I got sidetracked by working every day and a good looking girl, but now I get to go back up there just to hunt, so I guess it works out