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| Setting up the rafts for a week of pristine fly fishing |
Hiking up a creek in search of more and bigger fish. One of our favorite float trip activities. |
Jon looks like this fish is about to pull him in. |
Jason with a 20lb hen chinook he landed on a 5wt with 8lb test while Rainbow fishing. |
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| Jon with a 20-25lb fly caught king salmon |
Relaxing after another great day of fishing |
Jesse with a buck chinook that munched a swung fuscia bunny leech |
Doubled up on a couple of salmon, this pool was home to at least 500 fish |
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| Land of the midnight sun |
The crew enjoying a cool evening and warm fire, recapping the events of the day |
Jason prepares to release a mid-thirties buck chinook |
Jay and Jesse with the largest king of the trip. Estimated at 50-60 pounds, Jay landed this red sled in 20 minutes. |
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| Russ and Sean provided an evening's entertainment with full wader gravel bar sumo wrestling. |
When Sean wasn't involved with sumo he was landing awesome fish like this hen king |
Sunrise looking upriver and wishing the week wouldn't end |
A tradition that began in 2005, the annual puddle fishing evening. Gerrit guides Russ to a 2" smolt. |
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| We had one afternoon of good rain and the rest of the week was typically beautiful |
Jason with an upriver sockeye. We didn't target these fish but still landed a bunch while targeting other species |
Russ with a brighter hen sockeye, this one may have had a spot at the evening table |
Why not catch just one more before calling it an evening. If you want to fish 20 hours a day here, you can. |
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