Description
July 2002 | Southcentral Salmon and Triple-Digit Halibut
DEPARTMENTS
Publishers’ Note 6
Editor’s Creel 8
Alaska Fishing News 10
Fishing for a Compliment 12
Gear Review 14
Short rods for big fish.
Inside Alaska Angling 66
Q&A with Senator Frank Murkowski.
Pro Pointer 72
Circle hooks for halibut.
Featured Fish Recipe 76
Sheraton’s Phyllo Salmon.
The Final Drift 82
Features
The Right Stuff
By Ron Gillham
A FA do-it-yourself guide to Cook Inlet halibut.
Tying the Deep Sixty
By Tony Weaver
Flyfishing for halibut? No! Really? Yes, really!
Six+ Hotspotsfor Triple-Digit Halibut
By John Beath
The best places in the state to land a colossus hippoglossus.
Halibut by Storm
By Dave Strege
Searching for adventure? Try fishing for these diamonds in the rough, real rough . . . –
The Tal
By J.D. Richey
Pull out your “Lewis & Clark” gene. This river adventure and thousands of fish await. –
The Wild and Scenic Gulkana River
By Larry Bartlett
Fish like there maybe no tomorrow, the trials and tribulations of one of Alaska’s most accessible (and beautiful) rivers.
SPECIAL SECTION
Fish Dutch Harbor
by Pete Hardy
“Halibut Guru” Pete Hardy takes you to the far-flung western end of Alaska for some record halibut fishing.
