Southwest Alaska Wilderness Fishing Float Trip
Summer, 2011. Floating, Camping and Fly Fishing for Salmon, Dolly Varden, Grayling and Rainbow Trout
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22 inch leopard rainbow trout
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Jay Sampson took this great bow on a sculpin in the upper river
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Windswept Campfire at Sunset
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The crew relaxes around the campfire as the sun sets. 11:30pm.
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A Hearty Fly Rod Collection
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Thanks to North Fork Composites, Temple Fork Outfitters, Winston, Sage, Ross, Orvis, Simms and Patagonia for making great gear.
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Monster Rainbow
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Russ with the big rainbow of the trip. A 24 inch 6-7 lb monster. Keep in mind Russ is an ex-college lineman. Those are meat paws.
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Fish Taco Tuesday
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A new float trip tradition. Fish taco Tuesdays. In this case they were of the Dolly Varden variety.
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Show us the fin!
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A 20 inch class grayling. The group landed lots of these in the upper river. Big grayling were everywhere during the first half of the trip.
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Here Dolly, Dolly.
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It's fun to feel the wiggle with all Dolly Varden, but once they get over 24" they're really fun! We were lucky enough to hook lots of 24-28" fish
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An afternoon fishing break
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We caught some marginal weather early and late in the trip, but mid-week was absolutely stellar.
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Cha Ching... Silver in the bank.
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We put the light rods away after day 4 and turned our attention to chasing early lower river silvers. We were not disappointed.
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Thank you Dolly, may I have another?
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A 28 inch Dolly Varden. Nothing like a steelhead size fish on a four weight.
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Relaxing at Sunset, Life is good.
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We've done a lot of these trips over the years and this one was one of the best. A true epic journey.
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