DEPARTMENTS

Editor’s Creel 6
Tackle Tech 12
Salmon Sense 16
Tight Lines 20
Fish Alaska Boats 26
Fish Alaska Recipe 76
Advertiser Index 78
Final Drift 82

Fish Alaska Special

Test Your Salmon IQ 32
Just how much do you really know about Alaska’s most popular gamefish? Guide and contributing FA editor Greg Brush has worked up 20 fun and informative questions to find out what you know about salmon.

FEATURES

Fish Alaska Fly

Dog Days 38
The hot days of Alaska’s summers aren’t
called Dog Days for the traditional reasons.
E. Donnall Thomas brings on the hot fly action with some “Dirty Dogs.”

Fish Alaska Travel

Northern Light 46
When the tundra greens and the waters clear, there’s nothing so much certain as the fact that great fishing awaits. Join photographer Jim Klug in celebration of the beauty that surrounds the fisherman in Alaska’s outback.

The Do-it-Yourself Roadie 56
Rental car, map, regulations, waders and gear in-hand, JD Richey takes you on the road systems of Alaska and points out the productive waters that are easily in reach for the average angler.

Chasing Silver, Slabs and Crazy
at the South End of Paradise 66
Fishing southeast can mean lots of things including storms, blue-bird days, difficult passages, and lots of memorable fishing. Salmon, lings, halibut and rockfish are all to be had in the No Man’s Land off Cape Chacon. Story and photos by Terry W. Sheely.

COVER/ Big, bright, southwest coho.© Jim Klug