Well, costs will vary, but here's a good idea:

Air Fare to Anchorage. Search around. There are deals to be had. Cost of this depends on where you fly out of. I think I paid $300 for my flight. I know there are better deals out there.

Fishing Package with Bob Ball. Take a look at his Alaska site and pick the package that suits your needs. You can go on the "cheap" by camping out at places like DeepCreek, or you can go with the B&B's in the package. Fly-outs and Halibut trips will be more expensive then oh, say just the Kings. Costs will vary if you want to go on guided Red Fishing excursions, razor clamming trips, whale watching, etc. I opted for the 3 days fishing 4 nights lodging package. I think that runs $670 or so. Check Bob's site for exact figures.

Rental Cars are always expensive. If you rent a 4x4 (which is hard to do during the summer months), it's your ticket to the razor clams. No 4x4, no clamming. The Exploder cost me $400 for 5 days.

Fish processing will run about $1.5-$2 per pound. That's having the fish fillet, vacuum packed, and quick frozen. You can bring up some coolers and just send them home with you on the plane. Or, you can pay to have them sent back home...or just buy the packaging boxes and send those home. Shipping is not cheap. I got screwed over this year by the fish processing people. I did not bring home any fish I did manage to have 12 reds smoked, vac-packed, and will be shipped to me. Probably will work out to $5-6 per pound. Expensive, but I was put in a bind right on the spot. I'm not too pleased with good old Fred at this time.

Food is really not a problem as there's really no time to eat when in AK. I'm suffering through a cold right now...probably due to the 36 hour staying-awake binges, 1 meal a day, and going balls-out for the days I was there! All you really need is a $10 sub sammich from the sub shack. You'll see this place on the side of the road just past the Kasilof and say to yourself "Is this for real?" Best damn subs you'll ever eat!

A few $5 bills to get in to the State Park. No $5, no entry. Just that easy.

$50 to replace the busted GL3.

All said and done, I'm probably looking at $1,200, once I split some of the costs with The Kid.

PS. Bob is truly a machine. He survives on about 2 hours of sleep in any one given 24 period of time! Truly impressive! I don't know how he does it! Christ, all you have to do is just look at Bob and you'll start to feel all tired and sleepy!

[ 08-01-2001: Message edited by: parker ]