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Fishing Reports
Ketchikan
September 07, 2004
Posted by Stan Wright
HA
Email: stanwright@hawaii.rr.com
Current Report
Alaska Fishing Report:
Our cruse ship was only
docked in Ketchikan for 5
hours. Right at the end of
the pier was a tourist place
with a little fly shop
called The Hook Up. There I
met my guide Seth Conrow.
Within 15 minutes we were
standing just below a small
set of rapids on a little
stream ..... both hooked up
to a pink salmon. Now these
fish weighed between 4 and 5
pounds, maybe larger. They
were just out of the ocean,
hard fighting, high jumping,
and attacking our purple or
pink egg-sucking-leach flys
with wild abandon.
As the tide rose, the little
pond grew larger and filled
to overflowing with more
fish. Pinks, Silvers, Reds
and Dollies. I was standing
in knee deep water with fish
all around me. When a harbor
seal invaded the pool the
salmon were literally
jumping on shore to escape.
After 2 hours of non stop
action, I had to quit.
Tired but happy.
Would I go again? In a hart
beat. I still havent
experienced the fly out
fishing to a remote river,
the small mountain lakes
filled with trout, or
working the edges of the
kelp beds from a boat
catching all kind of
interesting species. (I
understand the Saltwater
Black Bass attacking popping
bugs is wild)
Aloha,
Stan
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