The guy we are staying with will provide the sockeye gear and flies. He does rather well as he sent us a box of fillets from last year. Thanks for the advice on flies for the grayling, trout, and char. I'll have to invest in some wire for pike. Have yet to catch any esocid so we'll see.

My big hope is to get grayling and char, the rest are "gravy".

Mark says that the even year pinks are aggressive so I will likely get into some of those just to C&R.

Just talked with a birding friend we have about 5 AK specialties staked out in Nome area. Primarily Asian species that nest in western AK.