The prehistoric Ice Age animals once roamed with Wooly Mammoths and saber tooth tigers. Today there are a few wild herds in the Northern Slope of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. The Musk Ox are graceful, beautiful creatures that have adapted to changing climate at the end of the last Ice Age. Musk Ox Farm The…
Stage 1 was spent mostly on the Kenai Peninsula and was my introduction to Alaska. I arrived on June 6 and the following day enjoyed seeing Anchorage, visiting a museum and an old Navy friend from the USS Niagara Falls. Seward-Sterling Highways First adventure was taking the famous Seward Highway then the Sterling to Homer…
The second of my three day trip with Cooper Landing Fishing Guides on the Kenai I was dialed in to this river and the fish.
World Class trout river video:
Right along the Sterling Highway, a little bit off the Seward-Sterling junction sits Copper Landing. I spent four days in this little town by the Kenai River, one of the best rainbow trout fisheries in the world. By the numbers Four days is more than the town has gas stations (2), restaurants (3), grocery stores…
This was a trip more than a year in the making. I first contacted Cooper Landing Fishing Guide owner Dave via e-mail about fishing in Alaska, a place I never visited or fished during the winter of 2021 about June 2022! Through months of correspondence, Dave “guided” me on planning my fishing trip not only…
Homer Alaska sits at the end of the Kenai Peninsula at the terminus of the Sterling Highway. As one enters the self-proclaimed Halibut Capital of the World, the various sights, sounds and smells reinforce that this is a serious fishing town, I have come here to fish for halibut and king salmon (see blog post…
Having a “free day” between fishing adventures on the Kenai Peninsula, I decided to trek to the Kenai Fjords National Park and hike the Exit Glacier. KFNP At the edge of the Kenai Peninsula lies a land where the ice age lingers. Nearly 40 glaciers flow from the Harding Icefield, Kenai Fjords’ crowning feature. Most…
My first of seven guided trips in Alaska was a deep sea charter for halibut, king salmon and rockfish out of Homer, which is a fishing town; both commercial and sport fishing. Homer looks, sounds and smells like a fishing town and is the self-proclaimed halibut capital of the world. Snowgoose II I charted the…
This was the first leg of my first trip to Alaska. Anchorage I stayed a couple of days in Anchorage to acclimate myself to the time zone and climate as well as catch up with an old Navy friend who lives in Wasilla (more in future posts on friends). During these days I also stocked…
