Back from Alaska already (pics included)

[AlvinMack]

Welcome back, once again I'm incredibly envious of your summers!

[Elyeye]

Good to have you back Pete, and the best of luck on your wife's surgery. Great Alaska post as always. It's a joy to read those when you get back each year.

[MagicStik]

Welcome back Pete! Awesome report and pics! Hope all goes well with the wife.

MagicStik

[MikeDebner]

Welcome back Pete.

[AllenW]

Eat my heart out....nice, very nice.

Good luck to the wife, hope all goes well.

We've talked about someday going for Halibut up there someday when we can get away for a week or so, but that looks like fun too, can ya do both??

Al

[wallipro]

Welcome back Pete ! Great Pics

[PATRICK R]

Great pictures Pete. It sure has to be tough coming back to Minnesota after being up in Alaska where there are a lot less people and a lot more scenery and big fish.

[alagnak]

We've talked about someday going for Halibut up there someday when we can get away for a week or so, but that looks like fun too, can ya do both??Al

Al- a lot of people do both. If you bottom fish for flatfish in the ocean you can also fish kings/coho's during their peak travel time as they make their transition from salt to the rivers. The place I work for is a couple miles up river for saltwater and we fish the 5 species of salmon that enter the river and the trout and 'year-round' species in our rivers and fly-out and do day hikes and fish other smaller streams. We are WAY too far from deep water off our coast to consider offering charters for bottom fish which stinks because I'd much rather bring back some Butt than salmon! Many people charter out of Homer or Seward for a few days of halibut fishing and then come to our place for 3,4, or 7 days.

I know that for me at least, jigging the bottom in a couple hundred feet of water to pull up butts would get awful boring after 2-3 days. You catch lots of different species but don't get any fight at all with the huge gear you use for butts. I personally like the lighter tackle/fly rod for salmon and the diverse fishing styles locations that the rivers offer. But there are people to butt fish for a week long and enjoy it too! The marine life and scenery while out in the salt is second to none.

[Tman]

Holy Moly! nuff said