Throwback Thursday.... with a cautionary note.

I feel blessed to have fished the hallowed waters of the Kanektok when I did. Like so many other premier king salmon streams in the Great Land, the K'tok has literally tanked after only 5 years since my baptismal trip!

2014 saw partial closures of even the native's subsistence fishery. 2015 saw a TOTAL closure of the rec fishery for kings and restrictions on the native fishery. 2016 is poised for more of the same...

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/EONR/index.cfm?ADFG=region.NR&Year=2016&NRID=2216

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/EONR/index.cfm?ADFG=region.NR&Year=2016&NRID=2215
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


The Keen Eye MD
Long Live the Kings!