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!