Aniak River, Alaska fly fishing trip

[Rusty Spinner]

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.