On Oct 31, 8:31*am, Jarmo Hurri wrote:
Greetings!

Next year is a special occasion for me and some of my Finnish friends:
once again, our capacity to function decreases slightly and probability
of death increases, but this time there is some nice numerology
involved.

To celebrate this, we have planned a longer fishing trip. There are
several possible locations, including Sweden / Norway and
Greenland. However, for some weird reason some of us would be
particularly interested in fishing either in the US or in Canada. If we
would come to North America, the timing would be end of July / beginning
of August. The whole trip would take 2-3 weeks.

We have already explored many of the possibilities. We have surfed the
net extensively. We have read books about Alaska, Vancouver Island, and
I have admired Behnke's Trout and Salmon of North America. My friends
have made a two-week trip to Alaska once (in October, IIRC). I have
wetted line in Vancouver twice, but not very successfully.

If we have understood correctly, the end of July / the beginning of
August is not the best possible time to come there. In many places the
probability of warm water and bad fishing is relatively high. This
concerns places such as Vancouver Island, Montana / Wyoming / Idaho, and
Alberta and mainland British Columbia, and we have concluded that we
should probably avoid those areas. The places which we have found most
promising are Labrador and Newfoundland and the Susitna region in
Alaska. However, Labrador and Newfoundland have the guide regulations,
and my friends have already been to Alaska once. We are looking for
suggestions of other possible locations and ideas and comments about any
regions over there.

We do have some money to spend on this, but we're not filthy rich. My
favorite type of fishing is small-stream fishing, but my friends like to
target bigger fish, and I have nothing against that. Unfortunately
neither stillwater fishing nor combat fishing are our favorites.

Please help us speed up economic recovery and global warming, or at
least help us survive this long Nordic winter.

--
Jarmo Hurri

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I think the wide expanse of the American and Canadian West during July
and August, with some Roffians as guides could make for a once in a
lifetime experience. Perhaps flying into Salt Lake or Colorado, then
working your way North into Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and
maybe even Eastern BC on up past 150 Mile house into the Horsefly
country etc.

Think "road trip," no big cities, big sky, your very own cowboy hats,
Jo Joes, much less than world class motels, real North Americans
etc.., and lots of challenging technical fishing, on as many beautiful
small streams and rivers as you would have probably seen in your
lives. For example you would certainly be welcome to camp and fish on
my little river farm in SE Washington for a few days.

Big fish targeting? You probably need guides, back country, planes,
Alaska, far northern Canada, money, a tolerance for present and former
corporate assholes, etc.. But I think there are a few guys here on
Roff who could get you there without some of the just mentioned
negatives.

Dave