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Looking back now, it seems silly to be slightly disappointed in the fishing. We caught a ton of fish. But the river was streaky and we’d go many miles of hard fishing with no fish. In the end, I think conditions played a role, but there was lots of water that just wasn’t too fishy looking. I’d...

After a day of nothing but coho we fished lots of nice trout water hard but had no success. River seemed high but clear, and we were pretty stumped. Luckily the coho kept on coming!

The rest of the trip was coho coho coho and everyone got in on the fun!

After pushing 21 miles the second day trying to catch up, salmon were on the brain that night at camp. We were rigging up as dusk and discovered the northern lights were overhead. Weather turned wetter and colder and the big rainbows and dollys we hoped for disappeared. The third day was...

Long overdue report, been a busy few weeks after. Had a backcountry river float on the Goodnews River in late August/early September. SW Alaska had been getting hammered with rain. We showed up and learned no flights had gone out for two days which led to seeing way more of Bethel than we hoped...

This guy has to be trolling us.

There will usually be a gap in time between 1st and 2nd, but a lot depends on the bean and the roast profile. Sometimes the last of 1st cracks can linger and linger almost to where second starts. And if you are just blasting beans they will roll in to second pretty quick. But on a machine I'm...

Russ: 315 yards Geno: 185 yards

Done! If you think I’m missing something keep it to yourself 😉😂 Condensed it all down to a Cliff Bugger Beast Jr and a Plano 3600 (plus a few small boxes of regular trout kinda stuff for grayling). Somewhere around 200 flies tied for the trip but I stopped counting quite a while ago.

That's funny! haha And speaking of bears, how far away is it recommended to stash food (and #2s) away from camp? I'm sure "the further he better" but realistically what is a "safe" minimum?

@SculpinSwinger thanks for the details. Interesting about the river keeper. Our outfitter didn't mention anything like that and has notes along the way of places to hike and streams to check out. Now that I'm thinking about it many of them were in the upper half. I'll have to look at that...

Probably the last flies off the vise before my trip. My biggest tying effort ever by far. Tied way way more than we’ll likely need but I doubt we’ll run out of effective patterns. This one is on a flat braid covered tube. Bunny is just tied in up front with a chenille ball to stand it up. The...

I will update with our experience after we get back.

Any notable camps or areas of interest along the way worth paying special attention to? Any side trips worth considering?

I just soak mine in a herring juice brine ;)

I’m thinking something potentially very low tech. Cord loop through the case to a zinger? (First prototype haha)

You just reminded me I wanted to figure out a tether for my trip next week! Thanks!

Some last minute additions for AK after @DimeBrite criticized my lack of chartreuse in the coho flies.

Oh 1/0. I like the idea of that. My old supply of sacrificial hooks is drying up and need to buy something new. I bet the hook eye is nice and big on those.

Imagine the salad it will collect too! Looks good though. Cool idea. I've always wanted to try the patterns with the double or triple baitfish small baitfish tied on the big worm hooks.