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.
Pic dump below.
Seward Harbor.jpg
Seward.JPG
Seward 2.JPG
Seward 3.JPG
Deep Sea.JPG
Ben's Ling Cod.jpg
Cap'n Ian & Bones.JPG
Ben Kenai.jpg
Ben bow.jpg
Bow.jpg
Big Dolly.jpg
Float plane over Kenai.JPG
Flies.jpg
River.JPG
1st Silver.jpg
Big Silver.jpg
Shane & Ben.jpg
Hooked up.jpg
Ben on the river.JPG
It's whats for dinner.jpg
Very cool!
Was the small stream a Kenai trib? Russian?
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.
A-aron laying down the goods.
Too much Ben though and not enough rhodo
Aaron. A breath of fresh air. :Dance
Ben, meh. :laugh:
Wow! What a trip that looks like.
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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way to treat the covid blues...
:drum
Enjoyable report here. Thanks for posting, fellas.
Hell yeah! 'c;
What's that big ugly bastard in the boat beside the rockfish? A lingcod?
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.