Just got back from an Alaskan cruise and was able to get after some pink and chum salmon in Juneau… It was one of the best experiences of my outdoor life. We flew in on a floatplane to the middle of nowhere and chased salmon around for 4 hours. Between my wife and I we caught 25 on the fly. I was exhausted afterwards! It takes about 5-10 minutes to tire them enough to get them close enough to grab. We were using 9’ 8wt with a 10lb tippet stripping a red clouser very fast through the water. Water temp was about 45 degreesWe only had 5 people in our group and there was plenty of room for 50 guys out there. I caught a 7lb. male pink that took me 15 minutes to get in. I had pics that one and about 10 other fish and my dear wife erased all of them! So all of the pics you see were taken in the last 20 minutes that we were there. I was flippin and strippin like there was no tomorrow so I could document something. We found some software online that may help us recover the lost pics so I’ll post if I have any luck. The waders and camera add 20 lbs. on me but for some reason didn’t have the same effect on my wife Enjoy…
22’Sea Hunt 200 yamaha
Jim Beam me up…
El Cid '02
Looks like it was a blast and a very aptly timed post with Alaska voting on Ballot Measure 4 today. I really hope that they choose fish over gold. I intend to get up that way in the next year and a half or so to fish Bristol Bay before a big spill from pebble mine kills the resource. Stepping off my soapbox now:yawning_face:.
“Fishing is alot like sex…when its good,it’s really good, and when its bad, its still pretty good.”
great fish!
your wife can throw a flyrod?
+10 points!
One of the things I hope to teach my daughter before she heads out into the world is how to handle a flyrod. She’s 1.75 right now, so we’re still working on the basics:sunglasses:
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this was her first time trying… she had difficulty with the concept of the fly rod vs. a traditional rod but she got the hang of it enough to get it about 20 -30 feet out there which is all we needed. There were so many fish in the water that if you just got it in the water you had a pretty good chance. She is officially hooked now though! Now all I need is for her to learn how to play golf and I’ll never get away from her!
22’Sea Hunt 200 yamaha
Jim Beam me up…
El Cid '02
NICE! gotta love those Pinks!! They will wear you down after a few dozen of them defiantely. congrats, when yall going back? I helped run a outfitters business in AK, check em out if you go back.
www.cc-outfitters.com the guys a nut, but the best salmon/AK fisherman you could imagine. its unholy.
My first pink was huge and Ive never caught one bigger. is that not the best sight in nature(salmon running up…dying to have sex)
I’ve never been to AK, but have lived in WA. I remember big salmon fighting their way up nothing more than a roadside ditch at my daughter’s school. Then their was the time a river near a pumpkin field flooded and as kids in galoshes picked pumpkins salmon backs cut wakes in three inches of flooded fields. Once they even stopped traffic by crossing the road in the rain. Seriously. Made front page of Seattle Times. Mason County WA.
It’s been years and I am still amazed by it.
Imagine how much fun that would have been on that 6wt.
“Plan like you will live forever but live like you will die tomorrow.”
Faith and Grace Posted - 08/28/2008 : 11:51:38 PM
Imagine how much fun that would have been on that 6wt.
“Plan like you will live forever but live like you will die tomorrow.”
HA! After hooking into a few of them I was wondering if 8wt was gonna be enough… those fish are stronger than I thought they would be. Pretty comparable to a redfish.
22’Sea Hunt 200 yamaha
Jim Beam me up…
El Cid '02