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ALASKA PRIVATE GUIDE SERVICE
Serving the Serious Alaska Big Game Hunter Since 1990
2010 Hunt Specials
Brown Bear Hunts available between 9/16/2010 and 10/10/2010.
1 guide / 1 hunter - 8 hunting days in unit 17. $6500 + $2000 kill fee
1 guide / 1 hunter - 10 hunting days in unit 17 $7500 + $2000 kill fee
Brown Bear Brochure  | Moose Brochure | Black Bear Brochure | Fly Fishing Brochure
The Board of Game opened brown bear season 10 days earlier so it would be easier to take more brown bears particularly along the rivers where we hunt. I have reduced all fall bear hunt prices and made the moose and brown bear combination hunt a kill fee for the second animal. Also, the Board extended the moose permit registration period until the day before the season opens so there is no more waiting 4-7 days to hunt moose after picking up the free permit.
Since 1990, Master Guide Smokey Don Duncan has operated Alaska Private Guide Service, APGS. APGS has maintained the highest client satisfaction rate of any business in Alaska because we have a good area, good experienced guides, lots of good equipment, good food, excellent hunting plans and we do what we say we are going to do. APGS provides guide and outfitting service for hunting Alaska Moose, Brown Bear and Grizzly Bear, Black Bear, Caribou, Wolf, and Wolverine and we provide world class fishing trips during the summer. We operate in Game Management Units (GMU) 17 and 20. We also provide world class fishing guide and outfitting services for King Salmon, Red Salmon, Silver Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Arctic Grayling, Dolly Varden, Char, Giant Northern Pike, and Sheefish on the World Famous Nushagak River and Yukon River. We also offer excellent wilderness Photography trips.
My web site should answer all your questions in detail and provide an excellent description
of how, when and where we hunt, how you get there and how you leave in an easy to read
format. You will find complete pricing for most all cost of your hunt including guide
fees, license and tag costs; airfares, etc… Please take the time to read the information
before you contact me; if you do, you should have very few questions and you will know
that you have found someone you can work with and trust. My operation utilizes very loyal
and experienced guides that care; and we have the logistical capabilities that increase
success with out sacrificing comfort. If you still have questions, or you see a mistake
or discrepancy, please call or e-mail me.
The name Alaska “Private” Guide Service was chosen to reflect the individual attention, care and concern given to each and every client even though we are one of the larger service providers. We make sure that we can provide the trip you want based on your desires and abilities before you book your trip. And, we address any concerns you may have during the trip. APGS did not start out big and well financed from inexperienced outsiders as many operators have done and continue to do. Instead, we grew steadily as equipment, guides and experience allowed.
Our operation’s size is unique and delivers advantages to you that most other operators do not have. A short list of advantages would include: 1 Master Guide, 3 Registered Guides, 12 Class A and Assistant Guides that have worked with APGS an average of 8 years. We have huge, excellent operating areas utilizing multiple adjacent Guide Use Areas. Equipment includes 2 Planes, 17 prop or jet boats, 7 snow machines, multiple Base Camps professionally and comfortably equipped along with substantial portable spike camps to use when needed. Oatmeal and freeze dried are not a food staple and seldom seen or used in our camps. We do not starve you to death to save money; nor do we try to walk you to death to make you quit early as many operations do. On most of our trips all you’ll need to bring is your hunting gear and weapon.
Enjoy the excellence of experience and let us make your Alaska Hunting , Fishing and Photography dreams come true.
You can see photos
of APGS hunts for all the species as seen on Picasaweb. Just select Slideshow or individual
photos for Alaska Hunting. You can also see our separate individual slideshows separated
by species. Just click on one of the following: Moose, Brown
Bear, Caribou, Fishing,
and Black Bear photos on their individual pages.
You can watch some of our videos by clicking here. Alaska Moose Hunts and River Jet Boat videos. You can order a 2 hour DVD for $8 which includes DVD and mailing costs.
Updates: 1/20/09, 11/8/09 You should be aware that the State of Alaska is currently working
on a plan to get back to exclusive and semi-exclusive guide use areas, GUAs. This may sound
good at first until you get down to the implementation details and the effects on the guiding
industry. The bottom line is: 70-80% of the hunting guide business like mine will be put
out of business. If guides get 1 GUA then 50% of the guides will have none. If every guide
that gets one GUA actually gets 3 GUAs; then 80% of the guides will be put out of business.
Your selection of available - potential guides will decrease dramatically. The surviving
businesses will have been the high bidder for the area. Consequently; the businesses will
have to charge
higher fees to cover their bids.
You can thank Alaska Professional Hunters Association, APHA, who lobbied the legislature to create the Big Game Commercial Services Board (BGCSB) (AKA Guide Board) in 2005. APHA has been getting large contributions each year from Dallas Safari Club $10,000, Houston Safari Club, $5000, and Safari Club International. This Board has been hell bent to "FIX" the guiding industry. The BGCSB is working through the Department of Natural Resources to create the exclusive use areas. The timeline is the areas are to be awarded by July 2010 and by Jan. 2011 most guides will be out of business. So beware, no matter who you book with! There will be a number of guides who take deposits and then file bankruptcy out of spite. Now it appears as DNR may not make the January deadline to request proposals from the guides and have them awarded by July 2010.
A four year report card for this Board would read as follows: “F”. This Board operates under the Title Dept. of Community, Commerce and Economic Development. With a title like that; you would think they are actually trying to help the industry grow. So far the Board has raise our license fees 2 times in 4 years. They have failed, no refused to address any out of control transporter issues. They have restricted where guides can hunt by making it near impossible for a guide to test for a game management unit. They have thrown the industry into turmoil. No guide can be sure he will survive the next year or so. And they have started down the road to turning the whole state into a private hunt club where only the rich can afford to hunt. For example; will you be willing and able to afford to pay the State through me an extra $5000 kill fee for a brown bear or moose? In addition to my guide fees of course. How about an additional $100/ day for a land use fee on top of everything else? That is where this Board has steered the boat. And if you don’t have the money; you ain’t hunting with a guide or maybe not at all when they get through with adding fees and taxes. And if all of the above is not bad enough; the legislature sets the license and tag fees and APHA has been recommending to Fish and Game and the Guide Board to ask the legislature to raise those fees substantially. Presumably, they have also been asking the legislature directly to raise the fees. I think they hope it will drive away more unguided non-resident hunters than it drives away guided non-resident hunters. The rich hunter stays and the poor boy leaves.
You can see my harsh comments to the BGCSB and DNR about proceeding with these plans by clicking
on this link. The next BGCSB meeting is in December 2009 in Anchorage.
The Board has a web site on the State
of Alaska web page. See the guides
letter
to the legislature 12/16/09.
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