Glacier Bear Lodge is up and running and here is the first trip out to
the Halibut grounds!
Check out the snow in the background! Roads are open and the Steelhead fishing pretty darn good as well.

Damn nice haul there! Let's see some steelhead pics.

Steelhead pics will be coming, some PP'ers are up there now, some of my guys are up there as well and Mr. Vedder will be up there in a couple weeks and then you will see some great photos!

awesome. I've been talking my wife's ear off about getting up there. She knows all about it now. Have fun up there. I'm green with envy.

Lookin good! Counting the minutes now!

Be there wednesday

Craig--Send pictures! You take some of the best around!
I need a couple new ones of big fish for the web site. I know you will find some.

I had a great time up that way the past 4-5 day's.....Caught some nice chromer steelhead each day and flat out got into the big butt's on saturday.Eric is one helluva captian brought home about 70lbs of butt.Got in late last night and I'm a day behind here @ work as the flight out sunday night got cancelled due to mechanical failure.Will try and get some photo's up soon.Good luck,
SZ

I was hoping to be working there on the river as a steelhead and salmon guide.......................

Peace
Fly

Not sure you really need a guide for that river!

Fish on...

Todd

I'm giddy as a schoolgirl. 2 more wakeups and I am Alaska bound for the first time.

Many do not need a guide but the majority of new people need at least one day with a guide so they don't wast 1 or 2 days figuring it out. It does take some figuring! I have seen many seasoned vets hook 2 or 3 fish in a morning and the guys that know how, where and what to fish catch 20 or 30.

Heck, one of the partners was up over the weekend and he is our token fly fisherman and a darn good one and he hooked 20 fish his first drift!!
If he can hook that many, it must be great, he is a fly fisherman!
Just think what a real gear chucker would hook!

AND Superfly, I still want to find a spot for you!
I have not forgot.

Lots of long faces on the river.... rain rain go away, I think some numbers may have gotten slightly exaggerated but there are definitely some fish in the river, waiting out the tidefish on day one was the best, supercool to spot and cast to them with drift gear, we hooked seven or eight on friday floating and they were all fresh fish, plenty of traffic on the river too, going with a guide that had hit it for several days previous would be a bonus in knowing where the fish were, lots of empty habitat right now... upriver was a bit of a goatshow with the holding spots locked up early, rough walking with 4 and 5 ft of snow in places so prospecting would wear a guy out. Hali fishing was great, limited on biggun's on Saturday, released many lings as the season is not open yet.

Fun first time up there!
Worked n the yard yesterday and am currently hanging stuff to dry out from that last rain storm.
Agreed that there were a lot more people up there then I had imagined but pretty decent fishing (but no 40+ number days like you hear)
GBL was a great place to stay with a great value I felt like when I got my bill.
Ill get some pics up when I have a chance to catch up
and thanks to the homies in the group, good times for sure!

Glad you enjoyed the trip, SZ!

Looks like a blast!

Now, if I can only get Robbo to get us on some flatties of that size......

Robbo - get the Polar Bear fired up! We're going OFFSHORE!!!!!

Steve, you didn't tell me you were going up?
Yes, the snow is definately making it hard to get to a hole so the easy places get full quickly, as May progresses, it will get better as there will be more access and lot's more fresh fish to move in. The main push the last few years has been the second week of May, then the river will have lot's of fresh and carryovers.

Unless the fresh fish are coming strong on the tide, the Situk is like any other Steelhead river other than they are all Native and you have to work a bit to hook fish, but you will hook fish.
Drifting the river is definately giving more opportunity and my fly guy is a good example. I still like tide fishing, but it is hard to beat the 14 mile drift as there are so many holes to stop in and you just move down if you run into another boat, plenty of water!

I'm going into super sneaky mode....

The famous have to be careful telling their whereabouts.

But it took away from the free beer I would have had waiting for you!
And wine for dinner!

No problem. I'll take care of his share, he won't mind!

Tell Pete when you get there you are from PP and Rick says dinner wine is on me!
Sorry no Steak and Lobster, you will have to settle for Steak and King crab legs!

The only thing I miss about commercial crabbing was the all you can eat crab....man I miss that! I would never pay those prices now a days....

You know if you want KC that bad I can always get it for you at ground prices.
Had 9/12 in last month; now only 14/17 reds or brown only.
Splits or legs.

Alright I guess beggars can't be choosers. Steak and king crab it will be.

Have a great time and please send pictures when you get back so we can post them on the web site!

GBL

Check your e-mail.I sent ya some pice from last week.Good luck,
SZ

Thank you, some great shots there!!!
Steve must have status as I did not know he was going up ,,,yet he has the best truck in town! Must know someone other than me!

What did you name the fish bat?????

These are Bernie/Gary/StrikeZones pics.... I don't have any and he can't post pictures... so there.

We were able to watch the snow disappear, the rain was washing it away muy rapido.



Gary/StrikeZone/Bernie broke the ice early and often. ...not bad for a smallish darkish fish



I on the other hand got some bright ones.... okay, one.

(suck it, Washington Enforcement )

Saw a major northern migration event the day we arrived, wave after wave of geese and cranes went over that afternoon.... easy 10,000 probly closer to 15,000, it was impressive to say the least, a pair of eagles put on an aero show for about an half hour too, high speed fly-by's that took you by surprise at 15 to 20 feet away, [Bleeeeep!] are fast when they want to be... it was a good welcoming committee.



StrikeZone/Gary/Bernie with another tide runner.




okay, I got two.



Pete and Eric from the lodge moved us up to Saturday on the ocean to beat a storm that was coming in on sunday....

Good move.



Kinda cold, it even got pretty rough, Gary had a night on the town (morning?) and had to take a break, the other Steve on board was chumming.... so I had the back deck to myself for about 3 hours, I liked it.



A stringer to remember.



Good time in a good place, as easy going of a lodge as you will find...do what you want, when you want, how you want..... hell, I hear the ascoteers will even tolerate a spey cast kwikfish on occasion, and if they won't, I say [Bleeeeep!] 'em, and GLacier Bear Lodge will back me up.

Thanks to Pete and Eric and the rest of the crew up there, and even though I'm already sick of eating halibut... I'm fixin' to be back.

Great pictures Stam and Strikezone! Glad you had a good time, our focus has always to run the business like fishermen want.
Now all we can hope for is for Mr. Vedder to come up with some great shots of him with three or four fish on at once!
The picture of him playing two fish on two rods a couple years ago is perfect.

Hey, I only have two hands! Oh the pressure. I'm thinking I can get a picture of a 20 plus pounder as I'm bringing BFD.

Thats a lot of But

We will get some pics when we get back, off to a good start so far. Chris & I hooked 24 between us on Thursday walking the bank and 17 today drifting the river. Found a lot of fresh fish today, I think we had the lucky rods.

damn CraigO! Sounds like a blast. Bout time to do some sky floats. Have fun up there man.

Cool place wanna go back,but this thing called work and family sports getting in the way.Good luck,

SZ

CraigO, I'll bet I know the spots you are fishing hard, although there are hundreds of hole in that river.
You guys are killing me now, I have a nurse job right now with a wife and hip replacement so I am going to miss the Steelhead season!
May is going to hurt watching the pictures come in.