Description
February 2006 | 2006 Travel Issue Part 2
DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s Creel 8
Alaska Traveler 12
Ten trips we want to take
Book Review 14
Fishing with my Father
Fishing for a Compliment 16
Advertiser Index 76
Final Drift 82
The Missing Lynx
PLUS
Reader Recipe Contest 24
Fish Alaska’s readers submitted some fabulous recipes. Here are the four finalists in a cookoff at Kincaid Grill.
by Melissa Norris
Features
The Fish Alaska Calendar
by Tyson Radley O’Connell
Want to fish for something specific? Here is a guide that is indispensible. Planning by run times puts you where the fish are, when the fish are there.
The Alaska Highway
by Dave Vedder
Here we leave those delicate Canadian trout and move up to the lunkers of Alaska. Dave Vedder drives and fishes the Alaska Highway, part 2 of 2.
The Big-Bite Kings of Sitka
by Terry Sheely
Sitka produces some of the hottest king salmon fishing in southeast Alaska in June. Plan now to get in on the action.
The Halibut Diaries
by Greg Thomas
How about a 300-plus pound flatfish in your 14-foot Boston Whaler? Here’s how Greg Thomas helped a couple of fishermen in their 70s take home a prize, along with a few other anecdotes from Southeast.
Tale of Two Rivers
by Dave Atcheson
Floating the Goodnews River for the second time, Dave Atcheson hooks up with a (relatively) unknown group to test their luck and endurance on very high water.
by Marcus Weiner
Publisher Marcus Weiner heads to the wildest Fourth of July celebration on the Kenai Peninsula and they catch some fish, and enjoy the festivities.
COVER / Ana Taylor and Trevor Arndt are all smiles after this halibut. © Marcus Weiner
