Aniak River, Alaska fly fishing trip
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Aniak River, Alaska fly fishing trip
I leave this week for 14 days. We will groundfish on Friday down in Seward for lingcod, halibut and rockfish. Then we make our way back to Anchorage and fly to a remote airport, spend the night, pare down our gear to 40 lbs, and climb into a turbo DeHavilland Beaver to fly in to the northern end of Lake Aniak where we land on the lake and meet our guides on the beach to begin a 9 day float. Interestingly, the river flows north into the Arctic. We will be fishing for silver (coho) salmon, big rainbows, arctic char, arctic grayling, and Dolly Varden using 5 and 7 weights. Lots of mousing for big bows which will be a blast (check out YouTube videos). I will post lots of pix once back. This is my second epic trip, my last was 7 years ago to Labrador and was also a fly-in although to a lodge. This Aniak River trip is tent camping on gravel bars and two rubber rafts for 4 buddies and our 2 guides. Agust Gudmundsson for those of you who know him will be one of the four. All are Trout Lout buddies I have known and fly fished with for decades now.
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Re: Aniak River, Alaska fly fishing trip
Have a GREAT trip!
aka; Ralph
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The irony of the Human condition is that we are so focused on reaching some point in our journey, some happiness, or some goal, that we seem to forget that the journey itself is where life happens.
Re: Aniak River, Alaska fly fishing trip
Safe journey to ya
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I love humanity, it’s people I can’t stand
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