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July 2003 | Just for the Halibut
DEPARTMENTS
Publishers’ Note 6
Editor’s Creel 8
Reader’s Lines 10
Fishing News 12
Kids’ Day Out
Book Review 14
Fishing For A Compliment 16
Pro Pointer 18
Memory Photos
Gear Review 22
Downriggers
Advertiser Index 74
Fish Alaska Services Guide 76
Featured Fish Recipe 78
Land’s End Halibut
The Final Drift 82
The Last Great Halibut Fishing Trip
FEATURES
Starlight Leech
By Rich Johnson
This is some chum pattern!
Halibut 101
by Ron Gillham
Ron Gillham tells all about Cook Inlet flatfish.
Hardware for Halibut
By Andy Hahn
When, where and how to drop those fancy, fluttering, lead-headed jigs.
Hangin’ ‘But
By Jerry Wylie
Every charter has one. Here’s how to “leaf” out.
Rock & Roll
By Doug Wilson
With a little bit of respect, Alaska’s most underappreciated coastal inhabitants might just surprise you.
Chum on the Fly
by Jim Teeny
The last part of a fly fishing tryptic by expert fisher, Jim Teeny.
Fish Gustavus, Alaska
By Terry W. Sheely
Just at the edge of Glacier Bay National Park, this scenic destination offers more than just fishing.
BONUS SECTION
Ghillies
by Troy Letherman
Alaska guides, good, bad and ambassador.
COVER/ Jim Goerg boats a halibut out of Gustavus. © Terry Sheely
