Fish on Ice - AK picture report

Absolutely stunning!!!!

PAL...

Epic Pics and Adventure!!!

 Just got to love what this way of life can open up....

We're kayak fishing in Montague Island area last month and love it.  Thanks for sharing the pictures 

Wow!!! Skuuuz me, while I wipe off the drool on my chin!! Now That's doin' Alaska!  Wonderful photography. Thanks for sharing. Do us all a favor, and post some more.

I'll join in the draw dropping and say "Wow!"    Those are some beautiful pictures.

You are living life LARGE my friend.
Thanks for bringing us along with your photos.

wow, you caught a salmon and a big ling, but the glacier photos are spectacular! way to go paul!
ice ice baby!

wow, looks unreal!?!?
Thank you for the report!

Hello PAL,

The pictures you sent looks like the one you see from a fishing magazine.
Absolutely awesome pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Jed

The pictures you sent looks like the one you see from a fishing magazine.

Haha...stay tuned jed

paul thaks for posting these here.

mautino is the best, isn't he?  That guy really can fish, and has the most adventurous lifestyle of us all, perhaps.  Plus the 1.000 Watt smile.

some day I'll get up there with him as well.  hmmmm maybe next year......hmmmm

The Trident sure looks good in the ice, man!!

Allen

words can not describe the reply that is needed.....Thanks for the pics&port
...and Congrads'on that salmon Paul!
noGIRLSonshoreWITHsmallBIKINISon?....WTF?!

Truly epic stuff, I feel like going right now!  Thanks for sharing...

Norm

I took a similar trip with Chris in early July.  I guess I didn't post the report here, so here it is.  Better late then never.

We took a water taxi over to Aialik Bay.  On the way over we had a nice showing of humpbacks including one coming up and spraying those of us on the bow when it let go an exhale.



We finally reached out destination and had a nice lunch on the beach before starting the paddling.



I think we covered 8-10 miles that day. I was trolling a spoon the whole time hoping for an early silver.  I had one hit, but it was not to be.  We stopped on the water a couple times for a break and I dropped an iron down.  I caught a few rockfish and greenling during those 5 minute stops.  Kept 1 5# black for dinner.



We stopped at Quicksand Cove for the night.  Set up camp, then basked in the sun on the beach.  We got lucky with the weather.  Seward still has a ton of snow in the hills and they've gotten a lot of rain this summer.  We hit the first good spell of sun this summer and it staid sunny the whole 3 days.  While we were setting there we asked Chris about the bears.  He started to say that they should be out soon and as if on cue, one appeared on the hill just above us.  Later we walked down the beach and up a stream.  Right here was a black bear feeding the the field and another in the stand of deadwood on the other side.  Yup, there were a lot of bear in around us.



The next morning we got up and while waiting for breakfast we spotted whales in the distance.  There were a lot of blows and we guessed it was a pod of killer whales.   Later that morning we packed up and header to the next bay over which had Holgate glacier at the head of it.  We rounded the corner then saw the killer whales in the distance, traveling towards us.  Soon they were all around us.  We had one big male come up 75 feet in front of us and just sit there on the surface.  His eye was just above the water and he was watching us.  Part of the pod was off to our left approaching us and the big male was just watching us as they dove down, apparently swam under us, and re-appeared on our right.  The big male watched us this whole time as if to say, "stay put", until the rest were on the other side, at which point he joined them.  One of the other whales started tail slapping the water.  Too cool.  Eventually they moved on and we continued on.



Stopped for lunch then headed up the glacier.  The glacier was quite active and calving icebergs off.  We paddled amongst the iceberg before turning around and heading to camp for the nice.  We covered about 12 miles that day.



The next day we had another 8-9 miles of paddling to Pederson Glacier.  We went up into Pederson Lagoon which was filled with icebergs.  Had lunch there then paddled a slalom course through the icebergs.







Soon it was time to leave and we headed to the pickup point.  Right before the pickup we spotted a humpback on the water.  A nice ending to great trip.

Chris and Pam are a first class act and put together some top notch trips.  If you're ever thinking about doing something like this, I highly recommend you check them out.

-Allen

Man O Man that's a nice ling but that yellow hat is very distracting...
AK sure is beautiful...

Who's calling my brave hat "yellow?" Them's fighting words.    The eye-blasting thing is orange.

That fine hat kept me dry during the rain storms, but I didn't realize how silly it looked. Maybe I'll dig up a shot that shows it straight on. It has a stove-pipe crown - Chris said it looked like a 10-gallon model.