Salmon mania

[Richard Flanders]

The silvers will start running up the Copper here pretty soon. Chris caught most of the fish and his shoulders and forearms were pretty trashed by days end, and he's stout lad. I've caught a lot of pinks at the mouth of the Nome River when they were flooding in by the gajillions; big fun and they're nice and fresh at that point so cook up pretty nicely. There's good dolly fishing on a flyrod upriver also. I used a 00-wt Sage flyrod to catch them up to 30" and had a ball. It's that time of year up here. I've picked about 4gal of blueberries so far with my berry pickin' buddy below and many friends are out doing the same. Everyone is out harvesting something for the next month and a half. Our grouse season opened Aug 10. I saw some nice caribou in the back of pickups on the way to Chitina.