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Alaska surf n' turf
09-12-2019, 12:49 AM
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Alaska surf n' turf
Flew up to the Eskimo village of Ambler on Sept 4th to go fishing with a friend. It's east of Kotzebue up the Kobuk River if you want to look it up. Weather was mostly rainy but we managed a day 30mi up the Ambler River. Fishing was spectacular. You could fish a lifetime up here and never get grayling like these, which ran 2 - 2.5#. We caught them like this all day. I used my 3-wt Orvis cane rod and felt in flyrod heaven. At one spot I turned to see three caribou swimming the river so we 'harvested' them and put them in the boat and barely made it back to Ambler before it was too dark to navigate the river safely. The next few days were spent processing them and giving some elders some meat. I brought most of one home today and the pcs are hanging in the basement with a fan blowing on them to get them cased over. My plane made a double rainbow while flying through a small shower during the 5 hr flite home today. First I've ever seen that.
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