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My heart beats faster everytime I watch a float trip in Alaska.
Just happened to watch this YouTube video today of a couple guys doing a diy like you describe. I really enjoyed this video.
This on the ptarmigan
What are you doing about filters for drinking water. A guide I know just had to get hauled out of Katmai back to Anchorage for giardia…..
Thanks for dragging us along on this great trip of yours!!!
Strangely enough, I'm really not worried about the bears.... plus we will be sleeping behind an electric fence.Looks like a bear's wet dream.
Talked to a guy at lunch today who was up there fishing the sockeye run a couple years ago. Their guide told them to throw all the trout back because they were feasting on dead sockeye and the trout tastes like rotten fish and not worth eating. Any idea if this is true? Would certainly throw a wrench in my meal plansHave some decent size hooks and split shot so you can throw some belly strips like you do for flounder. Most of those fish are used to eating flesh as it floats by.
That was totally crazy good to have it fall in camp!Saw that video last week
No way I'm getting lucky enough for a shooter to walk right into camp. Mine's gonna be a least a 1.5 mile pack
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I don't know if the electric fence would bring me a lot of comfort. I had a friend that did a 6 day fishing float trip last summer up there. He said he didn't sleep the entire week. They had the bear fence (operational every night) as well. But, on more than one night he had a bear pushing on the tent fabric about 6 inches from his head. It was close enough that he could smell their breath.Strangely enough, I'm really not worried about the bears.... plus we will be sleeping behind an electric fence.
Other than the fact I'm a bit nervous if I have to shoot one charging. If you do that, you have to completely cape out the animal, remove skull, claws (basically anything considered a trophy), haul all that out of the bush, pay to fly the cape and skull back to the local F&G office, file a report, then turn over all the stuff you hauled out to F&G. Then they investigate and determine whether you get fined and go to jail or it was a legit self defense kill.
But these bears are fat and lazy as stink after eating fish all summer.
I may have missed it, but I'm curious as why you're going this route over just packing freeze dried meals and tortilla wraps.3w till Alaska moose hunt. 10d floating 60 miles and most of our planned protein has to come from what we catch or kill.
Not trying to be a purist. Just want fish in the skillet to live on during the trip. Most salmon runs will be done by mid Sept, but there are plenty of resident rainbows, grayling, dolly varden, etc. I'm planning on throwing 1.5 to 3in Rapalas with spinning gear, but looks like the guided fishing folks fish this area with artificial salmon eggs in the summer months. Anything better than a trusty Rapala CD 3 or 5 in rainbow trout pattern? I've killed trout out west with this lure, but I HAVE to catch consistently to eat this trip. Sorry to offend the fly fishing purists... this IS some sport, but a full belly is more important
.22 pistol is a life saving tool around a charging bear!!!! Cap your buddy in the knee and run like hell!!!You better be good with the pistol if you bring one. If you got room, I would take either a scoped 22 or a shotgun or both. I went up a few years back to hunt moose and black bear with a buddy that lives there. He insisted on bringing a 22 pistol when there was room for his 22 rifle. We shot at allot of grouse and did not hit a one. You might get a chance at a rabbit or even sandhill crane depending where you are.
Part of the experience... trying to 'live off the land' for 10 days. A moose would just be a bonus.I may have missed it, but I'm curious as why you're going this route over just packing freeze dried meals and tortilla wraps.
That makes sense to me. Hopefully, the moose comes early in the hunt and it's campfire tenderloins the rest of the trip.Part of the experience... trying to 'live off the land' for 10 days. A moose would just be a bonus.
Give me a hammock 20ft. in the airNot to be a Debbie Downer, but I don't know if the electric fence would bring me a lot of comfort. I had a friend that did a 6 day fishing float trip last summer up there. He said he didn't sleep the entire week. They had the bear fence (operational every night) as well. But, on more than one night he had a bear pushing on the tent fabric about 6 inches from his head. It was close enough that he could smell their breath.
He basically catnapped a little with a large bore pistol in his hand.
Rattlin Rogue from Smithwick lures.3w till Alaska moose hunt. 10d floating 60 miles and most of our planned protein has to come from what we catch or kill.
Not trying to be a purist. Just want fish in the skillet to live on during the trip. Most salmon runs will be done by mid Sept, but there are plenty of resident rainbows, grayling, dolly varden, etc. I'm planning on throwing 1.5 to 3in Rapalas with spinning gear, but looks like the guided fishing folks fish this area with artificial salmon eggs in the summer months. Anything better than a trusty Rapala CD 3 or 5 in rainbow trout pattern? I've killed trout out west with this lure, but I HAVE to catch consistently to eat this trip. Sorry to offend the fly fishing purists... this IS some sport, but a full belly is more important
One of my favoritesRattlin Rogue from Smithwick lures.
We tear up the trout on the Caney Fork river, below Center Hill dam in Tennessee