Alaska, big state, big fish.

[switters]

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk221/switters_bucket/DSC01514.jpg

go out resurrection bay (Seward) and take a right.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk221/switters_bucket/DSC01534.jpg

Hope Alaska, home of the Humpies. These are the smallest fish we caught, The next day I was on sheep creek catching 35 lb chums but didn't get pics and didn't keep any. As much fun as you can have wearing rubber pants. (waders) purple egg sucking leech for those interested.

[paladin]

O.K. I see the bait fish...where are the big fish that you caught?

[Yeadon]

Them fish are dead. Don't they have live ones up there?

[switters]

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk221/switters_bucket/DSC01526.jpg

[paladin]

dunno look like no fryin' pan to me.....and that's the only place fer a fresh catched dead fish.....

[Yeadon]

Actually, that looks like a wheel barrow of fish.

[BrianW]

Ling Cod is some good eatin' fish! Nice Yellow Eye too.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/BrianW/Sitka/lingcod.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/BrianW/Sitka/redsnapperyelloweye.jpg

[The Bigfella]

Sheesh - is the water up there radioactive?

[Mrleft8]

What's that lumpy gray looking fish in the wheelbarrow?

[switters]

What's that lumpy gray looking fish in the wheelbarrow?

Ling cod

[Spin_Drift]

...Hope Alaska, home of the Humpies. These are the smallest fish we caught, The next day I was on sheep creek catching 35 lb chums but didn't get pics and didn't keep any. As much fun as you can have wearing rubber pants. (waders) purple egg sucking leech for those interested.

Are you back home or still in Alaska?

Hope is only a couple of hundred miles from us... Are you going to make it to Homer?:):D

[switters]

didn't make it to Homer this trip although we were halfway there on the coast out of Resurrection bay. Next year maybe. I usually fish the Queen Charlots islands in Canada but the exchange rate may influence next years fishing trip. Back in Colorado now getting the fish out of one gallon ziplock bags and into vacuum seal bags this weekend.

[gary porter]

Spin, I think he's talking about a different Hope...
Gary

[Spin_Drift]

Oooh... I thought the Hope in question was the one at Turnagain Arm...

How are you doing Gary?

[switters]

Hope on the turnagain arm, yes thats one of the places I was, fishing Resurrection Creek.

We also went out of resurrection bay and motored west for 3 hours placing us halfway to Homer. sorry for any confusion about my geographic descriptions.

I forgot so many forumites were in Alaska. Great place in the summer.

[gary porter]

Ok, my mistake. I read it wrong I guess. The Hope on Turnigan is the only one I know of actually.
Doing well thanks but could use some sunshine here.
Gary...:)


Oooh... I thought the Hope in question was the one at Turnagain Arm...

How are you doing Gary?

[Mrleft8]

Ling Cod? WOW! That doesn't look anything like the Ling Cod we get around here.....

[G. Schollmeier]

These pictures are from my nephew who is teaching in Elim. He is spending the summer getting to know the area.

http://hikecamppaddle.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/dscf0005.jpg?w=300&h=225

http://hikecamppaddle.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/dscf0001.jpg?w=300&h=225

Some times he out fishes the bears.

Gary :D

[switters]

nice looking kayak, he build that?

how did he get all of those fish in that tiny boat?:D

[G. Schollmeier]

He built the kayak in the school shop, it is a CLC kit. Even in kit form it wasn’t easy to get up there. It was his first build, but what else do you do in Elim in the winter. I think someone in a boat help him with the transport of the fish. Only one was a king, the rest were humpys.