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Alaska is pretty cool.

Sep 8, 2020, 10:06 AM

Spent the past week in Alaska, brought home 95 pounds of coho salmon and halibut.

I'm no TOTE, but here's some pics...




Bald Eagle perched on the far left tree




Did a boat tour of Resurrection Bay, saw this guy pulling out of the marina




Tour guides were all excited when we saw a transient orca pod




Thumb Cove




Sally the moose calf at the fishing charter we stayed at




View from fishing on the Kenai River




Coho salmon and one ugly dude




View from the river boat "marina" at the fishing camp one morning before we went out




Kenai River fishing




Retired lighthouse, view from the beach before we went out halibut fishing




Same guy, different fish




Halibut haul, not a good frame of reference on sizes, but the one on the right is a 50 pounder, far left was 25-30 pounder




Hiked out to Russian River Falls, if you zoom in on the pic, you can see two salmon jumping to get up the falls




Stopped at wildlife refuge, one giant reindeer




Couple grizzlies

All in all it was a great trip, then to get home and see Tigernet losing its mind over TLaw and Herbstreit, same ole same ole.

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it was pretty much the last two weeks of coho in the Kenai. Most of the pinks caught were blushing hard. Sockeye and kings were way done.

It was good timing for us, on 9/1 they upped it to 3 silvers from 2 for the limit, and we limited out the first two days.

My parents usually do the trip first week in August as well, that's the best time. They might go earlier to get kings and sockeyes.

Seward was a ghost town when we went, combination of COVID and end of season. It's close to the end of halibut season too, but the guys were telling us they were expecting like 30-40% of normal for people and said that every single day they could go out weather-wise, they were booked. So they at least weren't affected too greatly by COVID.

Alaska is pretty cool.

Sick bucket hat.

Nice pics and looks like you had a great time

Nice pics.

is it time of the year for the northern lights?

It was mostly cloudy and we weren't awake past 11pm

cluster flies might be a Vermont thing***

There is little we can do

Re: Alaska is pretty cool.

Really depends on which river you're fishing, but yes

Niiiice! I’d say you more than earned your

We shared the halibut charter with a couple.

The sea was angry that day, my friends...***

I've seen a similar hook in a haliBUTT once before.***

Re: Alaska is pretty cool.

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