DEPARTMENTS
Publishers’ Note 5
Editor’s Creel 6
New and Improved?
Book Review 10
Zipping My Fly
Fishing For A Compliment 12
Fish Alaska Services Guide 72
Featured Fish Recipe 74
Halibut Enchiladas
Advertiser Index 75
The Final Drift 82
Fishing with the Boss
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FEATURES
Beyond Grip & Grin 14
Photographer Peter Lekisch wants you to
document your entire fishing trip, not just
the fish . . . and we agree.
Fly Tying Tool Basics 20
Part one of two. Fly tying expert, Rich Johnson guides you through a
selection of equipment
for the winter season of tying.
Next issue—Tying Basics.
Well, Hello, Dolly 24
Courting the vixen of the Emerald Isle. Fickle at first, these plentiful
roadside
beauties came around after a little
experimentation, a micro-egg,
and the way it was retrieved.
By Dave Kilhefner
AKcess Alaska 30
Don’t let disabilities keep you from
enjoying what Alaska has to offer.
By G. I. Wilson
Big Fly, Big Fish 58
Alaska Sheefish take a big bite.
By Joe J. Warren
Profile: Izaak Walton 64
The dean of fishing literature.
By Jim Repine
BONUS
SECTION
Editors’ Choice Awards
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Fish Alaska
magazine editors have been testing new gear all year to bring you their
Best of the Best and Best Values for 2003. Here are the winners and a
goodly assortment of items that will make your fishing in Alaska more
productive, safe and enjoyable.
COVER/ Fish Alaska editor Troy Letherman testing some of this year’s
best gear. © Troy Letherman
Publisher's Note
Exceeding Expectations
In this month’s column, we’d like to recognize some outstanding individuals
that have gone above and beyond the call of duty in their profession, first of
whom is Rich Johnson of Purnell Photography, a contributing photographer for
Fish Alaska magazine and the man responsible for our monthly fly-tying column.
In our September issue, we ran into a snag and did not have the necessary
slides and text to complete the department. Rich went out of his way and
produced a fly for us at the last minute. This is not unusual for Rich, who
routinely exceeds our highest expectations, but his schedule is hectic at this
time of the year and he came through for us with flying colors. As if this
wasn’t enough, Rich then produced prototype salmon shark flies for us to use in
Cordova, which proved successful in catching a salmon shark on the fly. We are
truly thankful for Rich’s efforts.
A second individual worthy of recognition is Jennie Lou Bender, a flight
attendant for ERA Aviation. Through all the flights we’ve taken while covering
fishing stories around Alaska, we have never seen a flight attendant who loves
her job to this degree and is always happy and smiling. Keep up the great work,
Jennie.
We just recently completed a week long trip to Kodiak. In total, 13 people
were there on varying schedules covering a wide range of fishing opportunities
on the Emerald Isle. We’d like to recognize Pam Foreman, executive director of
the Kodiak Island Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, for orchestrating all the
arrangements and making it possible for us to fluidly experience some of the
incredible fishing on Kodiak. Her help was crucial to putting such a great trip
together.
Finally, we’d like to recognize Karen Anderson, the newest addition to the
Fish Alaska sales team. Karen has proven that she will be a great member of the
team, and her hard work and consistent performance has already enabled her to
close two new contracts. Hats off to Karen.
It’s the people of Alaska, as well as the exceptional fishing, that makes a
trip here special. We hope you can visit and experience both on an upcoming
trip.
See you fishing!
—Marcus Weiner and Melissa Norris
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