
DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s Creel
5
Readers’ Lines
6
Alaska Fishing News
9
Fishing for a Compliment
13
Gear Review
18
Inside Alaska Angling
74
Featured Fish Recipe
79
The Final Drift
82
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FEATURES
Tying the Crystal Egg Woolly Bugger
16
A fly that spring-run steelhead can’t
resist. BY RICH JOHNSON
Trout’s Way: Flyfishing Made Easy
22
From novice to expert, here are some
techniques anyone can use to simplify the ritual of flyfishing.
BY CURT TROUT
Steel Floats! 27
Fish with floats and take steelhead
under even the most difficult Alaska conditions.
BY DAVE VEDDER
Green Goddess, Karluk River
33
With almost as many kinds of fish as
colors of green, the Karluk on Kodiak is one vivid experience.
BY TONY WEAVER
Lost Lake 40
How about a couple of two-year-old
bear cubs and about a thousand caribou for fishing companions?
BY ROBERT STAGG
Diamonds in the Rough
44
Our resident expert relates her
infatuation with one of Alaska’s most under-appreciated game fish.
BY CECILIA "PUDGE" KLEINKAUF
Spring Steel!
52
One of the most vulnerable rivers in
Alaska yields a silver lining, but at what cost?
BY MARK GLASSMAKER
SPECIAL SECTION
Caught in a Steel Trap
56
One trophy like this and you’ll be hooked on the Situk.
BY DAN HARDY SR.
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