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Hunting Grizzly Bears in Alaska September 3, 2020 – Roughly 120 miles North of the Arctic Circle, it was Kyle’s first day to hunt grizzly bears in Alaska. He had flown in the previous day on ...

https://www.bigkype.com/2021/02/hunting-grizzly-bears-in-alaska/

Arctic Cold The nights were getting cold. Sub-freezing temperatures holding until late morning when the sun would finally creep up above the mountains and thaw some of the frost. It was a chore g...

https://www.bigkype.com/2019/10/arctic-alaska-part-2/

Recently I had the opportunity to help out with some guided hunts North of the Arctic Circle here in Alaska. Targeting caribou, wolves and brown bear. Based out of Kotzebue, we would shuttle hunt...

https://www.bigkype.com/2019/09/arctic-alaska-part-1/

Mat-Su Valley The 2018 season started off early May in Southcentral Alaska guiding on the Little Susitna and Deshka Rivers for iFishAlaska. The boat was a 24′ flat bottom with an outboard tille...

https://www.bigkype.com/2019/01/alaska-2018-in-review/

The reason we travel to Northern Minnesota to fish stream trout through the ice is for the experience and the solitude. Although we could have easily kept limits of trout, we only kept a few rain...

https://www.bigkype.com/2018/01/wilderness-trout-fishing-northern-minnesota/

On Sunday, October 15 of 2017 I entered the woods around 2:30pm to setup for an evening bow hunt. The temperature was around 46 degrees, the wind was blowing out of the West around 13mph and it w...

https://www.bigkype.com/2017/10/320-lb-deer/

Kayak Fishing Lake Trout Always have a plan B. Plan A was kayak fishing lake trout every day but because Lake Superior is so unpredictable, conditions were only ideal for our first evening of fis...

https://www.bigkype.com/2017/09/north-shore-fall-grand-slam/

Saturday marked the debut for a new fly fishing tournament hosted by Great Lakes Fly Shop. The tournament was specifically open to fly fishing anglers; canoes, kayaks, and non-motorized drift boa...

https://www.bigkype.com/2017/08/paddle-pads-bass-fly-fishing-tournament-2017/

Two Thousand Seventeen is off to a good start. We had a strong showing early on in February. There was even a day on the weekend that wasn’t blowing 60mph and I was able to get my kayak out in ...

https://www.bigkype.com/2017/04/february-trouts/

Just a couple of days after taking this giant I was contacted by another hunter who found out about it and apparently had been after this deer. Hunting over a half mile away, he had been capturi...

https://www.bigkype.com/2016/10/rattling-giant-backstory/

It was Thursday and I was heading to the woods after work. The air was crisp and the wind was hardly blowing. After checking the wind direction I knew exactly where I wanted to sit so I made my h...

https://www.bigkype.com/2016/10/rattling-in-a-giant/

My dad took up hunting with a crossbow a few years back and has only had the opportunity to shoot a doe in the past. Quite contrary to most, I took up hunting before my dad and have many more hou...

https://www.bigkype.com/2016/09/dads-first-buck/