Didn't you guys do anything fun?
Actually, yes.
The next day was our departure from the lodge in the otter with Frank (the pilot) a grizzled old alakskan with some great philosophy's and story's, here's his office.
From King Salmon Dave had to grab a flight back to Seattle to prepare for his next adventure, I did not.
So, I had made plans to stay and visit/fish with my friend K8 up in King Salmon where she has been guiding trout and Salmon trips all summer for Nancy Morris, I knew she would be out working when we arrived so I had the better part of the day to explore the town....the otter pilot Frank had to run up to Naknek and I bummed a ride with him, our buddy Jim bucket Heins had told me to swing by the trident seafood plant and say hey to his son and biz partner, they (along with luke) took me in a gave me a great lunch and tour of the plant, place is crazy...
Found my way to K8's place that evening and met up for a few drinks and some fishing off of the dock at the lodge....and finally found some silvers that would not bite.
I was staying right up the hill from King Salmon Creek and was told that there were silvers in it, it's a small stream and the bugs are bad but that's okay, I was getting used to them, spent the next several days prowling the banks spotting and decoding these fish, in the small water they were more challengeing......could get one or two on the hootchies then it was off, tried different colors but once they turned off it felt like september on the sol duc...until I found that little dicknite in my bag, I rigged it just like I was drift fishing....behind a small pencil lead with a 20" leader, had a lot of fun with these guys, and the limits were more generous so I harvested some for K8 and the gang as they have very little time to fish for themselves, it was fun.
They do work those guides up there, K8 was busy, but we had time in the evenings to BS a bit and work on gear and eat, drink and be merry. I tried to get one more flight out for the fat trout at brooks falls but once again the weather fouled my plans, oh well....guess I have to go back for that one.
Stage three of the trip was a little more civilized...and relaxing, back to Anchorage to rent a car and make that nice drive down to Soldotna to check up on Bob, Corey, Rainy and Rowan.....except it was just Bob and Rainy, Corey had left him...
for the day and he was actually able to go get some stuff done, I just tagged along and bs'd the day away, Bob and Dean-O were basically done for the season but the river is still plugged with fish so we put Deans boat in the water the next day and made a run for some winters meat.....bounced eggs off of the bow of the boat with flyrods and I broke tradition and snuck a few casts with my hootchie spinner and we (I
) limited the boat in about an hour and a half, fun day...and a good day to get hot.
Dean-O did manage a fish or two...
A nice kasilof silver
Trbo making the long reach......he bagged it.
Box-O-fish....easy as that
Thanks to Bob, Corey and K8 for all the hospitality and good times...see ya'll again soon.
Looking back now is was a pretty damn good tour of AK, I didn't feel like I missed out on too much, except the flyout for rainbows and maybe a stop at the governors mansion to fulfill my librarian fantasy and see if I could knock her up with #6...next year
stam
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