I was standing under the 9 mile bridge on the Situk river in Alaska last July fishing for Sockeye when a brown stuck his head out of the bushes to look at the thousands of fish in the hole, he was just about ready to jump in and start fishing when he turned his head and we were face to face about 5 feet apart. I had no where to go but in the river and I knew he could out swim me so I just froze. He stared at me for about 10 second ( felt like 4 hours) jump back and shot down the river about a hundered yards and crossed the river. I think I moved about an hour later and then went back to the lodge and clean my shorts!!!
YAKUTAT JACK--What lodge you stay at? Sure is a great river!!! I am going up for Steelhead in late April. Last year 15 fish in one day and 3 over 20.