Permits and Licenses

SPORT FISHING
You can purchase Sport Hunting and Fishing Licenses, along with king stamps and big game tags, online at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. You can also purchase them in person in Kodiak or Anchorage if you have time as you are passing through.

King salmon are caught year round, so if you plan to do any fishing, we recommend that you have a king tag.

BIG GAME
Kodiak Combos provides Big Game Transport service for big game hunts. In these self-guided hunts, Kodiak Combos will drop you off in the morning and pick you up in the evening from your desired hunting location.

Kodiak Combos can provide big game transports for Sitka Black Tail Deer transports for U.S. citizens.

Kodiak Combos can provide Alaska residents big game transportation service for any of your big game hunts, including draw and registration hunts.

Citizens of foreign countries must be accompanied in the field by a Registered Licensed Big Game Guide for any big game animal, including Sitka Black Tail Deer.

Specific tags are required to harvest deer, goat, and bear. Some tags must be picked up in person in Kodiak at the local ADFG office. Non-Alaska residents hunting Sitka Black Tail Deer can purchases locking tags online from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. We recommend that you purchase the tags well in advance of your trip as they will be mailed to you.

For those hunting Sitka Black Tail Deer, if you wish to hunt on Sitkalidak Island, you must obtain a land use permit from Old Harbor Settlement Trust, with proceeds to benefit the Old Harbor Scholarship Fund. Permits are available locally in Old Harbor and cost $150. Permits are also available for purchase for bear hunting on the Island.

If you wish to hunt fox, which come in 3-phases, red, black and cross, you must have a big game hunting license, which provides for 2 fox per day.

DUCKS
You must have State and Federal Duck Stamps, in addition to an ADFG Small Game Hunting License in order to hunt ducks. You can purchase a State of Alaska duck stamp online along with your hunting license. Federal Duck Stamps are available, generally, where hunting and fishing licenses are sold. You may also purchase one online at https://www.duckstamp.com

Non-residents are allowed 4 of each species for sea ducks.

LINKS
Alaska Department of Fish and Game online store

Federal Duck Stamp

USFWS E-Stamp