Alaska Wilderness Charters and Guiding, Inc is one of Alaska’s premier hunting and fishing outfitters. Founded by Brad Saalsaa in 1990, they have been guiding high success, quality hunts ever since.
Alaska Wilderness Charters and Guiding offers the following trips:
- Alaska Caribou Hunting
- Unguided Alaska Caribou Hunts
- Alaska Brown Bear Hunting
- Alaska Grizzly Bear Hunting
- Alaska Moose Hunting
- Ketchikan Alaska Salmon and Halibut Fishing
Alaska brown bear hunts on the Alaska Peninsula in Unit 9
This is one of the best areas in the world for hunting brown bear. We have plenty of big bears but you still have to be ready to go and get them.
One of our best brown bear hunts on the Alaskan peninsula alternate between fall and spring yearly. On even years they are spring hunts, and they are during the fall on odd years. Choose between a tent camp in an exclusive guide us area, or a hunt out of town where you will be staying in a Bed and Breakfast. Both of these hunts are good ones, but the tent hunt is better as far as trophy quality.
Spring Hunts
The Alaska Peninsula near Cold Bay, Alaska is one of our premier brown bear hunting areas. It is only hunted on even numbered years during the spring, and is hands down the best location for trophy sized brown bears in Alaska. This region is good, if not better than Kodiak Island for huge coastal brown bears.
- May 10-31 (only on even numbered years)
- Units 9E and D *more SCI record bears have come from these two units than any other in Alaska
- Most bears will square over 10′! *our largest came from this unit in 2016 and squared 11′ 2″ with a 30.6″ skull
- Hunting is from spike camps accessed by a Super Cub with large tundra tires. You will be hunting near the Bering Sea where bears will be searching for carcasses as they emerge from their dens.
Fall Hunts
If you would prefer to hunt in the fall, and are truly after a 10′ brown bear, you want to consider this hunt in GMU 9E out of Pt Heiden, Alaska. You will be spot-and-stalk or stand hunting primarily in the low country along the salmon streams and rivers which will be full of returning sockeye and silver salmon. The bears will be fishing to gain weight needed for hibernation.
- October 1-21 (only on odd numbered years)
- Unit 9E
- The goal on this hunt is a bear over 9′, but they can get up to and over 10’5″ if you get lucky. *each year we take at least one bear from this area that will qualify for SCI and B&C.
In the Fall, we also offer a lodge-based brown bear hunt
If you want to hunt out of a Historic Alaska Lodge and have the opportunity at a ten footer, then this is the hunt for you!
*This is a lodge-based hunt 90% of the time. We’ve had elderly gentlemen come back to the lodge after a day in the field and shoot their bear from the deck. Although this is not standard, it has happened. This is a good hunt for hunters with physical limitations, such as wheelchair or mobility issues.
- October 1-21 (only on odd numbered years)
- Unit 9E
- The goal on this hunt is a bear over 9′, but they can get up to and over 10’5″ if you get lucky. *each year we take at least one bear from this area that will qualify for SCI and B&C.