Fish attract crowds and fish make people nuts.
I have to admit: been there, done it. Heck, it's a long walk into Blue Cr., just like the drive to Hoodsport, might as well toss a line while I'm there. And heck the Sno's blown might as well fish Tokul instead cleaning out the gutters. But I was never prepared for what I saw at the mouth of the Russian River in Alaska many years ago. Visualizing a wilderness experience on my first trip to Alaska I headed to the Kenai and stopped at the Russian at around 10pm. Pulling off the remote and beautiful Kenai hwy into a parking lot that was bigger and fuller than the Puyallup Fair. When I finally got to the river I could not believe my eyes. A packed line of fisherman on the far side extending as far as the eye could see. We're talking over a mile. A loaded foot ferry was crossing the Kenai non stop. When I got over I found entire families tag team fishing in one spot and having picnics and sleepovers on bank behind them. And to top it off I learned to my utter amazement, that for a number of years later entire families were flying over from places like Japan to exclusively fish this stretch for reds to take back home. That's a serious fish magnet..... I mean like Close Encounters of the Fish Kind! It was a freek show. You might see me again at Blue Cr, Pt. Defiance, Bonneville, Buoy 10, Palmer, Reiter, Icicle, Tokul, any trout opener, and even Hoodsport, maybe. The Russian? No "freeking", and I mean "freeking", way.