Island X Hunts Jan 1-6, 6-11,
11-16, 16-21
6 days $3400pp
Alaska Sea Duck hunting Guides
specializing in Alaska Sea Duck hunting for
mature King Eiders and Harlequin
Aleutian
Island
Waterfowlers offers the finest Sea Duck hunting trips available today. We
specialize in taking Mature King Eiders for our guest's and have had a
very high success rate on Island X Sea duck hunting with our guest's. Trophy
Harlequin top off this truly remote hunt of a life time.
These Sea
duck Hunting trips run 6 days all-inclusive with meals, lodging and 4 days
of fully guided hunts to include boats, blinds & decoys. We will meet you
at the airport when you arrive at island X and will transport you and your
gear to the hunting camp. That afternoon we will tour the island for
around 2 hours and check out our shore blind
locations for sea ducks working the area. After returning
from the tour we will have
a
nice dinner and talk about the following days hunt. We have 3-4 King
Eider hunters per week in this remote
island location
and we rotate daily between our 3 shore blind locations and offer near
shore drifting
boat hunts over
decoys for sea ducks when weather and winds permit.
Alaska Sea Duck Hunting Conditions
The King Eider Sea duck hunts all take
place during winter conditions
utilizing
snow camo patterns or standard
Camo depending on the weather and snow
conditions. Sea Duck Hunter should be prepared to hunt in temperatures that can
range from - 20 to +40. All shotguns need to be completely
degreased with gun scrubber cleaner before hunting
this stop 95% of gun Jamming in these icy conditions. The legal federal
limit of Sea Ducks for
nonresident hunters is 20 birds per season total with no
 more
than 4 of any one species in Possession per year. Our lodge policy limits
each hunters two Mature Drake King Eiders & 4 Harlequin with a few Scoters
and Oldsquaws thrown in for good measure. Each hunter can reasonably
expect 1-2
mature Kings and limits of Harlequin for the week
but stormy weather and unpredictable wind & ice conditions can effect
normal Sea Duck hunting conditions.
Alaska Sea Duck Hunting on Island X
 The
island is only 15 miles long and has numerous points and nutrient rich
reefs that attract the King Eider Sea Ducks and Harlequin Sea ducks to the island
for winter-feeding. We have very good access to the islands hunting areas
with short drives of 10-20
minutes from the lodge with our
4 wheel drive truck and short boat trips of 5-20 minutes from the ramp in
our 14ft custom Zodiacs powered by dependable Yamaha
outboard motors.
We don’t hunt on your last day unless we missed a day due to Alaska weather
conditions, as we need to pack up your Alaska Sea duck trophies and get your gear to
the airport by noon for the 2pm flight back to Anchorage. You will
arrive between 5-6pm at anchorage airport just in time for dinner
and You have the option to stay over in Anchorage and leave 1st thing in the morning or catch a r ed eye
flight out that night around 11pm back home. The charter flight coming
out to island X on your first day cost around $700 and leaves between
9-10am so most hunters arrive the night before so they can make the
morning connection with Pen Air
If
you are interested in Alaskan Sea duck
hunting for King Eider Sea ducks seeing marine
wildlife in a true Alaska wilderness setting while experiencing some of the most
remote Alaska Sea duck hunting in the world, then this is the place for you.
The camp is completely modern with
amenities to include full-time hot showers, Private bedrooms
and a nice lounge to relax in at night after a long day of hunting New
his & hers modern bathrooms with flush
toilets, vanities & mirrors, The camp is by far the nicest remote
all-inclusive Sea duck
hunting camp on the island.
Alaska Sea Duck hunting Species We Hunt
King Eider Sea ducks
Drake King Eider Sea Ducks
 (Somateria spectabilis)
are regal in appearance and average 23 inches
in length. They are identified from other male eider Sea
ducks by the
red bill and large orange frontal lobe extending from the
bill up to the forehead. This lobe is outlined in black
which sets off the pale blue-gray top half of the head and
sea-green shaded cheeks. While the king eider has a white
chest like the common eider, kings have black backs. We
allow each hunter to take 2 Alaska Drake King Eider Sea
ducks per hunt.
The mal e
Alaska
harlequin Sea duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is a colorful,
compact sea duck inhabiting Alaska's coasts for most of the
year. Island
X holds one of the healthiest populations of Harlequins and offers
great hunting opportunity over decoys for our hunters. Each hunter
is allowed 4 harlequin per season included in there total limit of 20 sea
ducks total.
listen
to Wild Harlequins chatter
Weather at Island X
The weather in
this part of Alaska is unpredictable and during the winter
Alaska sea duck season it can vary from freezing rain to high winds.
During January the average daily temperatures range from
15-30 degrees with a few real nice days reaching the mid
30's. So everyone should pack and dress accordingly in
layers of Polar fleece with a good rain and wind shell as
the outer layer. All Alaska Sea duck hunters should be prepared
mentally and physically to hunt in any weather conditions
from -20 to +40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Expect it to be windy as the average year round wind
blows 12-15mph on island X at the airport during the Sea
duck season in January. But this doesn't
slow us down as we have gotten used to it and made
adjustments in our King Eider & Harlequin Sea duck hunting techniques.
Please be aware
that unexpected storms can move through this area and
occasionaly will make our Sea duck hunting grounds unsafe due to
large waves and extreme tidal currents this will cause us to
cancel daily hunting trips.
Sea Duck Hunting Itinerary
You will arrive on Island X via Peninsula Air on day
1. Here you will
be welcomed at the Airport by us and our courtesy van will
transport you and your luggage to our Camp 5 miles from the
airport. The scenic 15 minute ride from the airport to
camp will introduce you to the island. The magnificent land
of frozen tundra and lakes along the frozen coastline.
Remember all of our camps are remote wilderness camps,
only accessible by a 2 1/2 hour plane ride from Anchorage. When you arrive at camp,
you will be met by the head guide and escorted to your
room and shown around camp.
Sea
Duck Hunting meals
 The staff will serve
dinner between 6-7pm this will give you time to get settled
in and chat
with the guides or walk
down to the ocean. we get up around 7:00 a.m., when
the kitchen opens for breakfast. Breakfast is served at
8:00
a.m., buffet style or to order. We have a main entree of:
pancakes, eggs, French toast, Belgian waffles and fresh
fruit daily. We also have cold cereals and oatmeal. On nice
days, we pack up lunches to take in the boats with us and on
bad weather days we run back to camp to have a hot lunch
during a break from the hot sea duck hunting action.
The
Hunting day
Your hunting day
for Alaska sea ducks will start around 9.30am leaving the camp
with your guide in your truck to go to the Points or the
boat ramp. The day will end,
returning to camp by Dark around 5:30 p.m. where you can get cleaned up
and have a nice dinner around 7:00 p.m. After dinner you can
watch tv or chat with your guides about the following
days hunts or just
relax and have a cocktail and lounge around camp and tell stories. On day
6 your departure day, we have a normal
breakfast pack up and get ready for a 2pm departure and
Say good-bye to all your new friends, Guide gratuities of
10% are paid at the end of the trip to Staff in check or
cash. You will fly back to Anchorage Airport and check in
your luggage, catching a flight back to the lower 48 .
Booking an Alaska Sea Duck Hunting trip for King Eiders
To book a Sea duck hunting
adventure with
Aleutian Island Waterfowlers we require a 50% deposit upon
confirming your dates all trips are booked through Alaska
Adventures our reservation company, the balance is due by
Dec 1st and made payable directly to Aleutian Island
Waterfowlers. Due to the the nature of these trips they are
non refundable unless we have to cancel them due to
acts of god. We strongly recommend travel insurance
 to
protect yourself in case of emergency cancellations or
travel interuptions.
Due to the extremely
remote locations that we hunt for King eiders occasionally we have weather
delays or canceled chartered flights to Island X. We cannot
be held responsible for these flight or for any added
expenses occurred by you in Anchorage or missed flight going
home. If delayed once in camp we will accommodate our
guest's at no additional charge.
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