I did a Google search on Ernie Holland today and low and behold my post on an AK Moose hunt from 2012 showed up. It was neat to read everything written again. The info shared really helped me focus and decide what direction to go. Plain and simple, if you want to do a very remote hunt in Alaska, there is no inexpensive way to do it...that I could figure out and on top of the money you are putting a lot in the hands of people you do not know. As someone green to this stuff, it was stressful. I eliminated a float hunt rather quickly as the known accessible rivers, from what I read, can be over populated with hunters. Where I got stuck is who to use to get me into the bush and exactly where to hunt. good and fair priced bush pilots are a prized secret as are the good hunting locations! I found pilots that would take me deep into the bush but none that I really felt good enough about after talking to them to literally put myself and my dream hunt into their hands. Alaska, even once you pick the GMU area you want to hunt, is so vast with countless places to hunt you literally get overwhelmed. So, you have to rely on the bush pilot and praying they have your best interest at hand. For a first time hunt and the money I would have invested that was a tough pill to swallow!
In 2012 during my planning process, my wife had basically ended my dream to hunt in 2014 informing me 2104 is our 25th Anniversary year and I needed to take her to Tuscany, Italy before I went to AK Moose hunting. I learned that day we both had dreams but hers did not parallel mine so I backed off and Italy became our dream trip. While I would rather hunt Moose in AK, Italy would be a great time too.
About 2 weeks ago, out of the blue my wife tells me I should do the Moose hunt this year while I am still in good health and shape. I literally thought I was dreaming. I stayed very calm, cool and collected, not wanting to show my excitement or getting my hopes up too high, and just said... we'll see. I pretty much figured everything would be booked up or too expensive. I did a little checking and it just so happened I made the right call at right time and everything that needed to happen did to make a hunt a reality. If there is such a thing as divine intervention, I believe I experienced it!
This Fall, September 10 - 20, I am pleased to report I will be hunting Moose in Alaska. I have firmed up plans to hunt the Moose John Jay Massy made famous in his writings. In fact, it was reading his book on this exact river many many years ago that spawned my dream to one day hunt Moose in Alaska. So, it is fitting that when the sun, moon and stars finally aligned for my Alaska Moose hunt it will be where it all started for me.
A good hunt friend and I will be in the competent hand of Yote Robertson living out my dream. hunt.
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