November, 2011
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The Lloyd Ward Story November 30th, 2011
The year was 1970. I got a call from Memphis, Tennessee. The man identified himself as Lloyd Ward. His statement went something like this, “I’m Lloyd Ward and I live in Memphis. Do you all hunt Polar Bear and Brown Bear?”. I told him we did. He went on to say he’d talked to Barry [...]
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Around the World in 80 Days November 30th, 2011
It was August of 1971. I was forty-one years old. I’d had just returned to Anchorage from the Wrangell Mountains where I had been guiding for the Dall Sheep. It was between hunts and I had a few days off. I’d dropped into the fur traders taxidermy shop, which I was a 50/50 partner with [...]
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Cheating Death on the Arctic Ice Pack November 30th, 2011
The year was 1957. It was the first time I traveled to the Arctic. My mentor, Lee Holen, had asked me to go along with him to fly cover for him while hunting Polar Bear. During this time period there were only a handful of Alaskan Guides who hunted the Polar Bear on the frozen [...]
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The Pegged Legged Game Warden November 20th, 2011
This story is about a trip in which I was guiding a multi-millionaire land developer from Newport Beach, California. I’ll call him Harry. During those early years of my guiding career I used the Piper Super Cub as a mode of transportation and to locate game. This story takes place along the remote Alaska Peninsula, [...]
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Trophy Rainbows and Sheefish in Alaska’s Back Country November 16th, 2011
GUEST CORRESPONDENT – James O. Fraioli Trophy Rainbows and Sheefish in Alaska’s Back Country Alaska remains one of the world’s great angling destinations, and American Creek, nestled on the rim of Katmai National Park, is a thriving and sustainable rainbow fishery. Hunkering down beside a fallen Sitka spruce, my felt-sole shoes dig into the gravel [...]
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During my many years of guiding and bush flying, I have done several things: I provided mountain climbers with transportation up high on the glaciers, mostly on Mt. Logan in Canada, working out of Burwash, Yukon Territory, in the early '60's.
I made several movies, two of which became world famous. Alaskan Safari and North Country.
I also assisted Sears in making a camping movie in Alaska featuring Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest.
I assisted, and outfitted for the ABC series The American Sportsman, making several sequences on hunting in Alaska with celebrities such as Jimmy Dean on a Moose hunt, Cornell Wilde on a Bear hunt, William Shatner on a Bear Bow hunt and Goose hunting with Lee Majors.
Looking back on my career of poaching, I realize it was not the sporting or ethical thing to do. If I had it to do over again I would do it legal. But that doesn't take away the fact we were good at it. There was none better than the few I could name on two hands. Many of these proud men are now dead but all of them have been arrested and are now out of the hunting guide business.
You can see a DVD of National Geographic Wildlife Wars. It portrays my Bear hunting and poaching career.
Ron Hayes became an Alaska Guide under territorial before it became the forty-ninth state.
For many years, Ron worked alone with the use of a Super Cub aircraft. Just Ron, the client and the airplane. During the sixties, a law was passed making it illegal to hunt same day airborne. The law was made because there were about a dozen guides who hunted with airplanes. Many of those guides were so good with those airplanes that nothing escaped.
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