Category Archives: Alaska
ShutterBugs: Travis DuBois
Often during July in Alaska, where I grew up, my family would slide our jetboat into the clear waters of my home river somewhere between eight and 10 p.m. Even at that time the summer sun lit up the sky … Continue reading
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Raising Kids Alaska Style
Laying waste with Barbie NOTE: Thanks to my friend Kent Sullivan, who’ll you recognize as my partner during the recent Angler’s Tonic Alaska trip, for providing this great narrative on a trip he took a while back. He told me … Continue reading
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Tonic in Alaska
Just got back from Alaska this morning at 1 a.m. Felt as tired and whipped as when I returned from Russia a few years ago where I fished Atlantic salmon. And, in fact, I was almost in Russia two days … Continue reading
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Image of The Week: Kanektok River Alaska kings
Couldn’t resist posting this shot, mostly because I have fond memories of fishing the Kanektok with Deneki Outdoors an Alaska West in June and seeing a friend of mine, Jim Nave, slam this giant. Two hand rods and big intruders and … Continue reading
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Tongass May Be Saved From The Saw
Judge reinstates logging restrictions. SAN FRANCISCO — A federal district judge has reinstated a Clinton-era regulation that prevented logging on old stands of hemlock, cedar and spruce trees in large stretches of
Arolik Rainbows at Alaska West
Mousing Around in Western Alaska It was late at night in Denver during the annual fly-fishing trade show and I was crumpled in a chair at the ritzy Oxford Hotel trying to get my gear-whore foot in the door with … Continue reading
Mystery Fish Revealed
Candlefish. Skeena Turkey. Starvation Buster. Call it what you like it’s an Oolie. We got a lot of interesting answers on the mystery fish, most noted being the rainbow smelt. But this is no rainbow smelt. Instead, the fish pictured … Continue reading
Fish Photo Contest
Somewhere in the World This fish swims somewhere in the world that I’ve been and maybe you’ve seen it, too. The first person to correctly identify this fish gets a free Angler’s Tonic T-Shirt. How do you win? Send
Guys Without Dolls
Guys Without Dolls by Troy Letherman Apparently I’ve got a great ass. Even in waders. I know this because Chugach has made at least seventeen increasingly lurid comments to that effect over the past four days. Discomfort is settling in, … Continue reading
Last Man in Camp, Nushagak
Big rainbows, greedy grayling and an outfitter who wants out of camp. Must be fall in Alaska. By the end of Alaska’s sport fishing season outfitters and guides are at the end of their respective ropes and any deviation might … Continue reading
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Tagged Fred Thomas, Nushagak River, Troy Letherman
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