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Read moreLinks As A Storm Rools Down From the Chugach Range;
Fall trout & grayling trips include landscapes and lighting that are surreal. This picture has not been edited to produce the colors and effect seen. It is what it looked like and I was fortunate to have bracketed a few exposures, capturing this among the group. This was taken on a hike in Grayling & [...]
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Read moreLinks On a perfect June day, the wake of the boat parts the waters on an Alaskan river.
The weather here can be brutal but when it’s nice, it’s off the charts nice! I was crusing down one of our rivers one day and happened to look back over my shoulder. When I saw how beautiful the view was even with my wake breaking the calm water I had to shoot this picture. [...]
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Read moreLinks The End of a September Day………………
Although the weather in the fall can be more unpredictable than even summer, the scenery becomes surrealistic. I credit this to lighting effects. because the earth is quickly shifting its position in relation to the sun we experience a ‘sunset’ effect that lasts for hours. The suns rays cross the atmosphere at nearly a horizontal [...]
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Read moreLinks A pair of fresh Silvers taken with a 1964 Orvis bamboo salmon rod.
These two fish were taken fishing with my old Orvis Light salmon Bamboo single hand rod and a fly that was a gift from a fishing guide from Arkansas. Although Brandon has never been to Alaska he tied a salmon fly and mailed it to me asking that I give it a go. As you [...]
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Read moreLinks Dolly Varden Char;
A nice Dolly Varden Char caught on Ard’s Red Head, a Spey styled trout / steelhead fly pattern. These fish are capable of attaining salmon size with good feed. This was a fat one and was so selected for the display here. The char are not the acrobatic fish like rainbow trout or some salmon [...]
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Read moreLinks Arctic Grayling on Dee Patterns!
A nice Arctic Grayling taken using a Jock O’ Dee Spey pattern, the larger fish grab a big wet fly without a second thought. Fall is the most reliable time for grayling on my favorite river. I catch these fish using the Spey rods and by swinging traditional Spey & Dee style flies that the [...]
