Deja Vu All Over Again

Started by Aka, January 24, 2022, 11:50:11 AM

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Aka

Cabin fever, winter doldrums, 2020 2.0.

One or perhaps all of the above are contributing to this contribution. I think I planned to post something last fall. If I did, I didn't.

Anyway, last year I had planned to go to England for my mom's 80th birthday but the Covid shit made it look impossible so early last year Ben & I talked about making a trip to Alaska at the end of August. Spring came and so did emergency use authorizations & in a vax fueled high I thought I'd be able to travel to England for mom's 80th so the Alaska plan was scuttled. Then new variants & surges came and with them travel restrictions. All the shit happened. So I text Ben and the AK trip was resurrected.

The plan was pretty simple, fish. Some logistics out the way (which days to fish where & what Airbnb to stay in) and things were pretty well lined up. Then I looked at rental cars and about shit myself. It was going to be over $3k for a 9 or 10 day rental. Luckily my sister still had her 2002 VW Golf in town and agreed to let us use it in exchange for having some minor maintenance done on it before we left Anchorage.

Itinerary: Anchorage (get the car and last minute stuff eg. bear spray) - Seward (deep sea fishing) - Kenai (drift boat fishing but not a drift boat bc it had a motor) - Homer (base camp for the rest of the trip) - Anchorage.

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Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

Very cool! 

Was the small stream a Kenai trib?  Russian?
"Enjoy every sandwich."  Warren Zevon

Aka

Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on January 24, 2022, 11:56:56 AMVery cool! 

Was the small stream a Kenai trib?  Russian?

No, but we did fish the Russian one day while we were there. It was a big return year for Sockeye on the Kenai and the Russian was chock full of them.

 

Big J

A-aron laying down the goods.

Too much Ben though and not enough rhodo

Dougfish

Aaron. A breath of fresh air.  :Dance
Ben, meh.  :laugh:
"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
 Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? "
Kelly's Heroes,1970

"I don't wanna go to hell,
But if I do,
It'll be 'cause of you..."
Strange Desire, The Black Keys, 2006

Trout Maharishi

Wow! What a trip that looks like.
"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
― Charles Bukowski

benben reincarnated

Such a great trip that came together quite quickly.  Fuck though, it is a long ass flight from EWR to ANC.


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Woolly Bugger

way to treat the covid blues...

 :drum
ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Dee-Vo

Enjoyable report here. Thanks for posting, fellas.

Yallerhammer

Hell yeah!  'c;
What's that big ugly bastard in the boat beside the rockfish? A lingcod?
Women want me, doughbellies fear me. - Little Debbie Prostaff

benben reincarnated

Quote from: Yallerhammer on January 29, 2022, 13:32:03 PMWhat's that big ugly bastard in the boat beside the rockfish? A lingcod?

Yep, lingcod, long way to drag it up from 300' deep.