On Jan 18, 2025, at 11:12 AM, Robert wrote:
Birch, thank you for the truly superb reply. This is super intriguing to me.
I don’t want to overstep, but I’d sure like to post this info up on the hunting website I linked to you. Given the nature of this hunt, I’m trying to find a hunting partner. The good news about this being an African Hunting Forum is that no-one is seemingly lacking for a 375 H&H…
Please let me know your thoughts.
Best, Robert
On Jan 18, 2025, at 12:28 PM, Birch Robbins <
vacation@raspberryisland.com> wrote:
Good morning Robert, thank you for your interest in us! Yep, don’t forget to put in for the permit this November, and good luck! It is a truly enjoyable hunt.
Unfortunately we don’t have a guide available at that time; I’m not a guide, so we usually work with a registered big game guide to come in and do the guiding, but the few we know and trust are usually guiding moose hunters at that time of year. Hunting elk is similar to hunting other parts of Kodiak, and the animals are a joy to pursue. Perhaps I’ll meet a new guide or you’ll find a hunting partner before the coming season.. so I’ll move forward for now.
Alaska Air flies into TN so may be able to ship your frozen meat and trophy home; I’d start with them; we use them to ship elsewhere and it’s pretty easy.
I’ll post our write up below, in a addition to an article on how I like to hunt this country. Most important step is pulling the permit! Easy peasy after that. Thanks again! Birch
<Hunt article.pdf>
Our remote lodge is located at Iron Creek, on remote Raspberry Island, within the Kodiak Island Archipelago. We are in the middle of the Raspberry Island and South West Afognak Roosevelt Elk Herds and the Raspberry/SW Afognak Kodiak Brown Bear hunt area, all of which is home to the Sitka Black-Tailed deer. We have been hosting hunters to this area since 1985.
Kodiak and the surrounding islands are known for the weather we may get in the fall during hunting season, as well as the potential bear problems that can happen in the dark. Our comfortable main lodge, guest cabins, and transport boats are positioned to ensure your comfort and safety during the non hunting portion of your hunt.
Our private guest cabins are heated with private bathrooms and showers, we have a hot tub and sauna for tired muscles, and our meals are freshly made from scratch each day, featuring the carbohydrates, protein and nutrition your body will need the following day. We have multiple laundry facilities on our property as well as boot dryers in each cabin to ensure your gear is dry and ready to go the following day. Though one of our favorite and most productive hunts is the bowl here behind the lodge, we access all of Raspberry Strait from one of our 39’ hydrofoil assist catamarans, traveling to remote beach heads in just a few minutes from within a heated cabin at first light. This is wonderful, challenging country to hunt and home to rewarding animals to pursue. We’d like you to be able to focus on just that; the hunting portion of your hunt, and let us take care of the rest.
We specialize in unguided, daily drop off hunts with full lodge support. We encourage you to communicate with us directly about peak times of the year for specific styles of hunting, (alpine, rut, etc for deer) or which elk season to apply for (big bull, cow, etc), though we typically recommend hunt DE 702 or DE 704 (Bull, Raspberry), DE 706 (Cow, Raspberry, Nonresident Only*) and DE 713 (Cow, SW Afognak). We only offer fall bear hunts, DB 263 for Alaskan residents; please note we do not offer spring bear hunts.
*In 2024 ADFG offered a Cow Elk Registration hunt on Raspberry Island for the first time in decades. It was a bit of a flop and they only ended up issuing 25 permits that were allocated in under a minute after the registration option opened, online. Given the newness of this program, please overview the 2025 regs for an application time; in 2024 it was 8:00am September 25, but 2025 information hasn’t been released at the time of this writing.
Our Packages Include:
- A beautiful location in the remote wilderness where deer, elk, and bear have all been spotted from inside the lodge.
- All lodging in heated, private guest cabins with beautiful views, indoor private bathrooms with flush toilet and hot shower, comfortable mattresses, fresh flannel sheets and down comforters. Each cabin has four beds, of which two are twin sized uppers, and two lowers. One lower is a queen sized bed, the other is a twin. Fresh towels, soap, shampoo, and hair dryers are included in each cabin.
- Couples always enjoy their own, private cabin, unless you request otherwise, and we NEVER mix groups that don’t know each other into the same guest cabin.
- Comfortable main lodge, boasting the surrounding views, a large lounge with wood stove, leather furniture and local art, spacious dining room with hand built tables, and a large, open kitchen to watch our cook at work and enjoy appetizers.
- Outdoor jetted hot tub.
- Wood fired, cedar lined banya (sauna), with shower and dressing room.
- Laundry facility.
- Twenty four hours per day electricity, generated by our hydro electric plant and solar panels, and backed up by our quiet diesel generator.
- Wireless Satellite Internet.
- Plentiful home cooked hearty breakfasts and dinners made in our kitchen from scratch, focused on refueling your body for the hunt.*
- Daily prepared and made to order sack lunches for each day’s outing, including freshly made sandwiches, home made cookies, fruit, and candy.*
- Complimentary beer on tap locally brewed by the Kodiak Island Brewing Company, and wine paired to each meal. Guests are welcome to bring your own favorite beverages, including hard alcohol, if desired.
- Non Smoking Property, including our fishing boats. Guests are welcome to smoke on the beaches in front of the property.
- Five Days of Unguided Hunting, with a boat drop off each morning and a pick up each night.
- Meat house to hang your harvest, safe from bears.
- 100 yard shooting range on the property to zero your rifles before the hunt.
- Gift store at the lodge to browse through at your leisure.
- Round trip transportation by boat or a local sea plane charter to Kodiak Raspberry Island Remote Lodge from Kodiak City.
Our Packages do not include:
- Hunting licenses available for sale at the Alaska Fish and Game website: http://www.admin.adfg.state.ak.us/license/ Please purchase these before arriving to the lodge.
- Drawing Permits for Elk and/or Bear, these must be applied for in November the year prior to your hunt and awarded by the ADF&G.
- If you aren’t a resident of Alaska (non resident hunter) you must have your big game locking tags before arriving to the lodge.
- Harvest Tags for deer. Please have these before arriving to the lodge. If you’re a non resident hunter, you still must have your harvest tags in addition to your locking tag.
- Preparation of your game meat; we’re not licensed butchers so can not help you butcher your game. You may donate the meat to the lodge, you may ship it to a local butcher in Anchorage (Indian Valley Meats), you can freeze it on the bone and we can box it for your transport home, or you may utilize our vacuum sealer and equipment to butcher it yourself, freeze it here, and we will box it for your transport home.
- About ½ of the area we hunt is privately owned by the Afognak Native Corporation. If you would like to hunt on their property please purchase a Land Use Permit prior to arriving to the lodge. https://landspermit.afognak.com/
- A guide to accompany you into the field.
- Trip insurance, we recommend visiting http://www.insuremytrip.com/
- * Our small kitchen, culinary team, and our remote location prevent us from straying too far from our pre-planned daily menu. Please let us know of any dietary restrictions BEFORE confirming your reservation to ensure we are able to properly accommodate each member of your group.
A seven day, six night trip to Kodiak Raspberry Island Remote Lodge, including all of the above, with an arrival in the mid afternoon and departure in the mid morning, is $4,102.00 per person. For safety reasons, we always ask that you hunt with a companion on an unguided hunt.
Upon receiving a commitment from you by e mail we will enter your reservation into our calendars and forward our deposit request and contract/hold harmless agreement for you to please review, sign, scan, and return to us by e mail. Please also include a list of guest names in your group, and e mail addresses that you would like us to submit an invoice and payment request to. Thank you in advance for this.
For reservations made a calendar year or more prior to your trip, we request a $500 per person deposit to secure your dates. You may change these dates, based on our availability, up to January 15 of the year you would like to visit. At that time we request a second deposit to equal, in combination with the initial $500 per person deposit, fifty percent of your total trip. The remaining fifty percent is due sixty days before your arrival.
For reservations made during the calendar year of your trip, a fifty percent deposit is due upon booking, with the final fifty percent deposit due sixty days prior to your arrival.
Please read and understand our
Cancellation Policy.
We invite you to join us in the near future. Please know that each of our packages are customizable, this is YOUR trip, so please let us know how we can adjust activities to fit your best interests. Please do not hesitate to contact us by e mail
vacation@raspberryisland.com. We look forward to hearing from you and being part of your vacation.
Thanks again,
Birch and Tiffany Robbins
Birch and Tiffany Robbins
Kodiak Raspberry Island Remote Lodge
www.KodiakAlaskaLodge.com
vacation@raspberryisland.com
We are regularly away from the phone and/or outside and don’t have service. E Mail is our preferred form of communication, thank you in advance!
