Description
Departments
4 Fish Alaska Online
6 Alaska Traveler
8 Creel
10 Fishing for a Compliment
12 Gear Bag
14 Salmon Sense
16 Fly
18 Saltwater
22 Flyfishing
24 Conservation
62 Recipe
64 Ad Index
66 Final Drift
On the Cover
Maizie Norris with Russell Oliphant and Maizie’s first ever king salmon caught on a trip to Kodiak Legends Lodge with her Mom last summer. © Melissa Norris
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Kings and Miracles by Melissa Norris
The pain of two Achilles tendon ruptures almost prevented Publisher Melissa Norris from making her annual pilgrimage to Larsen Bay Lodge on Kodiak, but the fish gods had other ideas. Miraculously, her Achilles healed and her daughter, Maizie, went with her on the trip where Maizie caught her first king and together, they caught enough bottomfish to adequately stock the freezer for the upcoming year.
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The Grosvenor Experience: Gateway to the American by Daniel Hoffman
Grosvenor Lodge is one of the most historic, and most intimate, flyfishing lodge experiences in Alaska. Daniel Hoffman has visited it many times, and has a long-running love affair with American Creek and its trout and char.
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The Talachulitna: A Legendary Alaska River by Mary Catharine Martin
The Talachulitna River, AKA the Tal’, is a Susitna River tributary, and one of the true gems of southcentral Alaska. It’s remote, but not too remote. It’s accessible, but not by highway. Long beloved by anglers for its fabulous fishing, it is under threat by the proposed 100-mile-long West Susitna Industrial Access Road. The road would be mostly private and would serve foreign mining companies with claims in the area. The road would bring with it the threats that always accompany mining and would forever change the fabric of the West Su area.
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Long Run to Tebenkof Reef of Plenty by Terry W. Sheely
Southeast Alaska has lots of remote places to fish, but some are downright primordial. Tebenkof Bay is such a place, where limits of multiple species are the rule, rather than just a hope. Halibut, lings, rockfish, and salmon are all on the agenda. It’s a long ways from everywhere, but well worth it.
