TR w/photos: Kanektok River, Bristol Bay, Alaska float

This was easily the best extended fishing trip I've ever done. Great
company, LOTS of fish, and some extremely bad weather. Check it out.

http://home.earthlink.net/~royalwulff/kanektok.html

PS: It wasn't even expensive.

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"rw" wrote in message
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This was easily the best extended fishing trip I've ever done. Great
company, LOTS of fish, and some extremely bad weather. Check it out.

http://home.earthlink.net/~royalwulff/kanektok.html

PS: It wasn't even expensive.


totally awesome, as they would say in frisco, colorado. what would you
estimate your temperature ranges during the day?

really good images from both parties; still, it was a little
disconcerting to note that, in willi's first photo of you, he caught you
having ****ed your waders...

yfitons
wayno

Man you guys are driving me nuts! The report and photos are the next
best thing to actually being there. A distant second but what the
hell.

Strikes me as slightly better than the "Wal Mart/High Bridge" water!

Next time, hopefully.

bruce h

Wayne Harrison wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
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This was easily the best extended fishing trip I've ever done. Great
company, LOTS of fish, and some extremely bad weather. Check it out.

http://home.earthlink.net/~royalwulff/kanektok.html

PS: It wasn't even expensive.



totally awesome, as they would say in frisco, colorado. what would you
estimate your temperature ranges during the day?

It ranged from freezing at night into the high 50s during the day. The
big problem was the driving wind and rain into our faces while we were
floating. We were completely soaked after 3 days of that, and then,
miraculously, the weather cleared, the sun came out, and we got
everything dried out. It was glorious.

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"rw" wrote in message
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This was easily the best extended fishing trip I've ever done. Great
company, LOTS of fish, and some extremely bad weather. Check it out.

http://home.earthlink.net/~royalwulff/kanektok.html

PS: It wasn't even expensive.



totally awesome, as they would say in frisco, colorado. what would you
estimate your temperature ranges during the day?



Steve summed that up, but a big difference between Alaska and Colorado,
at least in the summer, is that day and night temps in Alaska vary very
little. Although it felt cold during the day when the blowing rain was
happening, at night in the tent, it was warm. I don't think the day and
nightime temps varied by more than 10 degrees. I disagree with Steve
about the temps getting to freezing at night. I think the upper thirties
was as cold as it got.

For me the blowing rain felt VERY cold. The prevailing wind was directly
upstream and was strong enough at times to blow the raft upstream
against the current. I'm not used to rain. Give me 20 degrees and a
heavy snow over the 40/50 degree weather with cold rain driving into
your face as you're floating down the river. Based on advice from Chas
(who knows something about rain)I bought some quality raingear which I'm
VERY glad I did. That combined with fleece and wool made things
tolerable even during the worst conditions.

Willi

Willi wrote:

Steve summed that up, but a big difference between Alaska and Colorado,
at least in the summer, is that day and night temps in Alaska vary very
little. Although it felt cold during the day when the blowing rain was
happening, at night in the tent, it was warm. I don't think the day and
nightime temps varied by more than 10 degrees. I disagree with Steve
about the temps getting to freezing at night. I think the upper thirties
was as cold as it got.

Actually, one night there was ice on the tent when I went out to relieve
myself, but that night was colder than the rest. By 6:00 when we got up, the
fog had settled in and the temperature was above 40 again.


For me the blowing rain felt VERY cold. The prevailing wind was directly
upstream and was strong enough at times to blow the raft upstream
against the current. I'm not used to rain. Give me 20 degrees and a
heavy snow over the 40/50 degree weather with cold rain driving into
your face as you're floating down the river. Based on advice from Chas
(who knows something about rain)I bought some quality raingear which I'm
VERY glad I did. That combined with fleece and wool made things
tolerable even during the worst conditions.

It would be easy to say this was just standard winter weather in Washington,
but it wouldn't be true. My hands were colder than Willi's, and that wind was
really mean.

Chas
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Nice! Thanks for the photos.

My two Finnish fishing buddies are right now in Alaska, fishing for
silvers, bows and dollies for ten days, driving around in a motorhome.

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rw wrote:

This was easily the best extended fishing trip I've ever done. Great
company, LOTS of fish, and some extremely bad weather. Check it out.

http://home.earthlink.net/~royalwulff/kanektok.html

Great photos. But what's with Willi? He always seems to be
juggling fish. :-)

A question: Did you have any problems with bears going after the
fish you kept on a stringer? Or did they have so much to eat that they
didn't even bother?


Chuck Vance

Conan The Librarian wrote:

A question: Did you have any problems with bears going after the fish
you kept on a stringer?

No. You're thinking of sharks. :-)

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"rw" wrote in message
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This was easily the best extended fishing trip I've ever done. Great
company, LOTS of fish, and some extremely bad weather. Check it out.

http://home.earthlink.net/~royalwulff/kanektok.html

PS: It wasn't even expensive.

Hi rw,
Neat trip. Don't quite understand the "It wasn't even expensive" part. Tell
me more. I recall a ROFF conversation some time ago where it was being
casually considered after a Dave L trip where it was digustingly luxurious.
.. .and his trip was envious to me . . . and I'm sure both were fishingly.
What was your cost?

I like the pic of Willi in the yellow raft holding the fish.
(Ranting On)
(I see too many pics of people squishing the belly or holding the fish
horizontally, or at such an angle that it is stretching the lower jaw.) I
guess I would suggest this to all. Have someone hold you by the lower jaw
and lift you horizantally, or there 'bouts off the ground. Or just grab
you around the stomach as squish you tightly and hold you the same way. .
Fish bladders are there for a reason. Ya can't squish hard into the tummy.
.. ..uhh . . . if you have a fish bladder.
(Ranting Off)
DaveMohnsen
Denver
( sounds like it was a great experience for you folks)