Well my Alaska vacation was a success! Sitting here at the Anchorage airport waiting to return home, so getting started on my trip report.
My nephew William was married to a beautiful lady Samantha on Saturday in Wasilla and was the reason for the trip.
I arrived in Anchorage last Monday and picked up a rental and headed to my sister's house not far from the airport, and hung out there for the rest of the day.
Tuesday my brother in law and I headed north to Willow creek and his cabin further north. Willow creek was running high n dirty but checked out the mouth and 2 other spots. I made some casts with a sculpzilla to no avail, I did hook a branch for half a second of excitement until reality struck and I broke off the fly.
We checked out Sheep, Goose and Montana creeks as well, but they where all in the same condition and called it. We got some subs and headed to his cabin on a lake near Sheep creek to eat and check it out. Then headed back to Anchorage to hang out and make plans for Wednesday.
We had planned on heading to Seward Wednesday afternoon for our Halibut trip on Thursday. His parents plane was delayed so I decided to head down by myself and do some site seeing, I wanted to put my eyes on the Keni, and I hade the time for a detour.
I've dreamed of fishing for the legendary Kings of the Keni since I was just a we lad, but not gonna happen this trip.
Alyeska ski resort, I skiednhere in 96, forgot how steep it is!
Keni river.
Williams best friend Joe is a charter captain out of Seward and had the trip planed with him. My brother in law, his son's William and Edward and his dad Larry and I made up the crew for the day.
We meet at 6 am and after a 2.5hr run we where on the fishing grounds. We started getting bites within seconds and the first fish to the boat was the dreaded dog fish. The bites stopped and we moved farther west to a new location.
Just like the last, bites started instantly! First up was a yellow eye, we were going through yellow eyes(couldn'tkeep them till July) and some black rock fish before William hooked and lost the first Halibut right at the boat on the jig rod.
We are in the game now!
To be continued
My nephew William was married to a beautiful lady Samantha on Saturday in Wasilla and was the reason for the trip.
I arrived in Anchorage last Monday and picked up a rental and headed to my sister's house not far from the airport, and hung out there for the rest of the day.
Tuesday my brother in law and I headed north to Willow creek and his cabin further north. Willow creek was running high n dirty but checked out the mouth and 2 other spots. I made some casts with a sculpzilla to no avail, I did hook a branch for half a second of excitement until reality struck and I broke off the fly.
We checked out Sheep, Goose and Montana creeks as well, but they where all in the same condition and called it. We got some subs and headed to his cabin on a lake near Sheep creek to eat and check it out. Then headed back to Anchorage to hang out and make plans for Wednesday.
We had planned on heading to Seward Wednesday afternoon for our Halibut trip on Thursday. His parents plane was delayed so I decided to head down by myself and do some site seeing, I wanted to put my eyes on the Keni, and I hade the time for a detour.
I've dreamed of fishing for the legendary Kings of the Keni since I was just a we lad, but not gonna happen this trip.
Alyeska ski resort, I skiednhere in 96, forgot how steep it is!
Keni river.
Williams best friend Joe is a charter captain out of Seward and had the trip planed with him. My brother in law, his son's William and Edward and his dad Larry and I made up the crew for the day.
We meet at 6 am and after a 2.5hr run we where on the fishing grounds. We started getting bites within seconds and the first fish to the boat was the dreaded dog fish. The bites stopped and we moved farther west to a new location.
Just like the last, bites started instantly! First up was a yellow eye, we were going through yellow eyes(couldn'tkeep them till July) and some black rock fish before William hooked and lost the first Halibut right at the boat on the jig rod.
We are in the game now!
To be continued
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