I've got a lot of fishing pictures that are just one or two from a given trip. This page is a place for them. Some of the more interesting fishing pictures I have are here!
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This is a very young me with my first ever Grayling. Tanya and I had just started dating the previous fall. This was taken at Fuller Lake, near Cooper Landing. |
 That's me again on the same trip to Fuller. Yep I'm not wearing waders. It was a very warm day that day. | |
Fuller again, and this time you can see my father and Tanya. The lake is beautiful and catching grayling in the 12-14" range is pretty easy. They are lots of fun on a light rod. |
 This is my friend Victor See fishing Fuller from a float tube. He is at the lower edge of the lake right at the beaver dam. I'm further out in my own tube. | |
What is so great about Fuller Lake? Well, it's an easy 1 hour walk that can be done after work. It is also just far enough off the highway that you don't get hoards of people there, though it is well visited. It also has the most accessible Grayling on the Kenai Peninsula. This photo shows how pretty they are, though not the impressive dorsal fin. |
 Another younger me, shortly before Tanya and I got married. I was a couple of weeks past an operation, and wasn't back to work yet. We went out to Weed Lake near Sterling and caught a few Rainbow Trout. Yes it's small, but remember I like light gear! | |
Here's my best friend Phil fishing a small un-named lake on the Denali Highway. We caught a couple of fish out of here. |
 Here's Phil again, this time fishing Vagt Lake near Seward. | |
This is Janessa my niece. She's showing how big of a fish she just caught at Watson Lake near Sterling. |
 See, she wasn't kidding! | |
This is another of those days that lives in my memories. Taken at Landmark Gap Lake on the Denali Highway. Phil and I had hiked in to try for the three speices of fish that live there. It rained (typical for us!) and we had lightning striking the hills around us. Great fun! We each managed to catch a single Lake Trout. |
 This was good for me though, as it was my first ever Laker! Though we only caught one each, and were SOAKED by the time we got back to the trucks. We had a BLAST! | |
Just so you don't think all Alaskan fishing is quiet lakes and streams, here is a pic of fishing for Red (Sockeye) Salmon on the Kenai River. Actually, all these guys were with me as we worked together. We all went fishing one evening, using my boat (in the picture) and another boat to ferry people up and down the river. It's a lot of fun fishing at midnight! |
 Here is Tanya holding up her first King (Chinook) Salmon. It was 35 lbs, not huge, but not a bad eating fish either! | |
Tanya doesn't fish as much as I do. However, she does do some fishing so we can do things together. Here she is prospecting for big Rainbow Trout on the Russian River. |
 Here's me again, also on the Russian River. I've got a smallish Red Salmon. You can see I wear neoprenes, a light backpack with extra gear (and my lunch!) and I'm carrying Thumper, my .44 revolver. That's a little bit of insurance as it is Brown Bear country. | |
This older picture is my parents with some Halibut. Halibut is probably the best eating fish as far as I'm concerned! It's just too bad I don't have a boat anymore, or I'd spend all my time fishing for them! |
 Ahhh...herein lies a story. My mom, dad and I were trolling out of Homer for King Salmon when this 70lbs Halibut came off the bottom in 60 feet of water to hit our trolling rig! Dad managed to get the 'but to the boat with the 30lbs test salmon gear he was using. I harpooned the fish and snubbed the line to the rear cleat. Naturally the fish went nuts for a minute, then I pulled it back to the boat with the harpoon line. Dad didn't want a fish that big in the boat alive, so he leaned over and shot it with his .45. No problem, standard procedure here, though most folks use a .410. He somehow hit the harpoon line! I was quick with the gaff though and we got the fish. You can see the cable and a .45 shell on the fish. | |
And you can't have an Alaskan fishing page without at least one picture of Northern Pike! Dad caught these beauties at Trapper Lake. Pike are not really fish, but actually alligators with very short legs. They eat anything, even baby ducks.....only a monster eats baby ducks! |
