Happy Memorial Day. It’s a big sports holiday for me – my hockey team opens the Stanley Cup Final and my basketball team rallied to get to Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals – but I’ll take some...
Our correspondent Scott Haugen filed this report for Outdoor Life on what could be a record-setting brown bear. Here’s Scott with more: Friday the 13th. If you’re superstitious, you likely wouldn’t spend that day perched atop the tundra in Alaska, bowhunting brown bear....
Good read in the Alaska Dispatch News, as the Copper River’s sockeye season last week started with kind of a thud: The first opener produced a catch of 25,000 sockeye and about 1,500 kings. “It was pretty slow to start. Small fish,...
This story was originally written as part of the May 2015 issue of Alaska Sporting Journal. Perfect Capper To Back-To-Back Dall Sheep Hunts? Pursuing Caribou, Of Course BY BJORN DIHLE I’ve been obsessed with caribou and the tundra, mountains and forests they inhabit...
The following was originally featured in the February 2016 issue of Alaska Sporting Journal. A Ketchikan Deer Hunter’s Harrowing Fall From A Cliff BY JEFF LUND Once a tooth fragment falls out of the hole in his gums, doctors can take the...
This may be one of the easiest way to start a fire. The guy from Stephenson Prepper uses cotton ball, petrolium jelly and a flint with a scraper. You don’t need to have the same bracelet as with flint/scraper as shown...
The following interview appears in the May issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: BY CHRIS COCOLES It was a classic mentor/rookie moment for Sean Dwyer. In the dangerous world of commercial crab fishing off the coast of Alaska, Dwyer’s debut...
Good stuff from the Alaska Dispatch News commemorating a world-record fish caught in Alaskan waters. Les loved to fish, but that’s not the same as a love of big fish. He was just out there to have fun, and honestly, he...