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Short Runs & Season Closures Don't Mean The End, Just The Beginning of Something Else

Posted 07-30-2012 at 04:31 PM by Hardyreels

That's the situation facing many people here in my part of Alaska. I imagine that many gear fishermen are out there heaving lures into the high and turbid waters and some are probably hauling out some Sockeye to boot. Me, I'm a fly fisherman who uses quiet little salmon flies to catch his fish and these conditions are not conducive to my having great success. With that reality in mind we decided to do some traveling, this was early July 2012. The trip started with a drive along Turnagain Arm of...
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Page 2 of Short Runs & etc.

Posted 07-30-2012 at 04:30 PM by Hardyreels



I've never crossed Prince William Sound before and so had not seen so many bergs in my life.

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I neglected to take pictures when
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Page 3 of Short Runs & etc;

Posted 07-30-2012 at 04:29 PM by Hardyreels

Here are some of the pictures I took in the town, it was once a thriving town fueled by the huge copper deposits along the river but now is pretty desolate some 100 years later.

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Page 4 of Short Runs - The Denali

Posted 07-30-2012 at 04:24 PM by Hardyreels

If you're going to take a trip here you might as well make a go of it. We left Chitna and passed Glenallen to turn left at Paxton onto the denali Highway. I'll just post up some pictures and caption them.

There were more of these to be found along the way;

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And plenty of these;

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