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john montana
For the record, prior to becoming a carp on the fly guy I was a respectable trout, salmon and steelhead fly angler, and while I haven't chased those fish of late, I still love to catch em! Truthfully, I will catch basically anything that eats a fly. This year, my dad took me to Alaska for an unforgettable trip to a lodge. We flew out each day to different rivers and chased mainly big rainbows and coho salmon. It truly was an epic trip, six days float plane fishing with my dad in remote and stunning settings. I was left speechless each day and hope to get some stories and reports written down over the next few weeks, but here are some basics of what we did. During the trip I caught seven different species of fish...the breakdown by species.
Grayling: the grayling up there are no joke and I simply could not stop fishing for them. Every night after dinner I would rush to the river and catch a couple dozen of these beautiful fish on dry flies. Amazing to catch an endless supply of 14-20 inch fish on an elk haired caddis. Beautiful creatures.
Arctic char: the guides all laughed at me because I told everyone that my goal for the trip was to catch a char. I ended up catching a ridiculous number of char, the largest was 26.5 inches, but most were 20-22 inches...awesome fish. The char fought harder than the bows, though they didn't jump much.
Rainbow trout: e eryone else at the lodge was there for the rainbow fishing, and I was happy to catch them too! We basically fished beads behind spawning sockeyes and if you got a good dead drift you were nearly guaranteed to hook either a rainbow or a char. One guy at the lodge landed a 30 inch bow! My biggest was about 26 but most of the fish were over 20 inches long...huge awesome fish!
Will do another page to break up the photos.
Grayling: the grayling up there are no joke and I simply could not stop fishing for them. Every night after dinner I would rush to the river and catch a couple dozen of these beautiful fish on dry flies. Amazing to catch an endless supply of 14-20 inch fish on an elk haired caddis. Beautiful creatures.
Arctic char: the guides all laughed at me because I told everyone that my goal for the trip was to catch a char. I ended up catching a ridiculous number of char, the largest was 26.5 inches, but most were 20-22 inches...awesome fish. The char fought harder than the bows, though they didn't jump much.
Rainbow trout: e eryone else at the lodge was there for the rainbow fishing, and I was happy to catch them too! We basically fished beads behind spawning sockeyes and if you got a good dead drift you were nearly guaranteed to hook either a rainbow or a char. One guy at the lodge landed a 30 inch bow! My biggest was about 26 but most of the fish were over 20 inches long...huge awesome fish!
Will do another page to break up the photos.
Thanks for sharing your amazing trip with your Dad. :clap::clap:
