I have fished the Petersburg, Alaska area for salmon and halibut for 20 years, relying on Island Point Lodge for housing, meals, and gear. A week’s stay at the lodge including boat, tackle, bait, gas, and great hospitality was about $2500.
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Island Point Lodge: Alaska's Fish On Your Own Lodge
Island Point Lodge offers anglers the chance to maximize their skills and talents while minimizing price. Limits are generous, and you can fish from dawn to dark, a long time in Alaska summer.
Alaskan King Quest: Landing a Chinook Salmon
Catching an Alaskan king salmon is like landing a tarpon you can eat. Most of Alaska allows non-residents to catch one or two kings in a season, but the Blind Slough fishery near Petersburg allows four per day. Here’s where and how to conquer the king with stick, fly, and string.
Safari Club International Convention 2022 - Turning Dream Chaser into Dream Maker
The world abounds with exciting hunting adventures, and many share a common launch point. What Cape Canaveral used to be to NASA space exploration, the Safari Club International Convention is to hunting. If it roars, bulges, grunts, runs, or hides, SCI has a hunt to catch it.
Alaska Adventure 2021: Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula By RV
Our group of five landed in Anchorage at 11:00 am, rented a motorhome from GoNorth RV, bought groceries and supplies at a Walmart supercenter, and headed down Route 1 through the Kenai Peninsula.
Alaska Adventure 2021: Halibut On The Sea Voyager
The highlight of our one-week Alaskan Adventure was to be a halibut charter in the Cook Inlet out of Ninilchik. I had spoken with the captain several times on the phone and was optimistic about success. But Alaskan weather intervened as it often does and after rising early and meeting at the boat, the captain said the weather was just too rough to go out.
Alaska Adventure 2021: Portage Glacier, Global Warming In Action
The Portage Glacier is just a few miles from Route 1, the main highway that transects the Kenai Peninsula. When I last visited the giant ice flow in 1986, a huge iceberg floated just off the parking lot, and the edge of the glacier was within plain view.
Alaska Adventure 2021: Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Alaska and animals are nearly synonymous. Visitors and tourists enjoy seeing a moose or a black bear as much as a glacier or majestic mountain. Luckily, the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center (AWCC) provides the opportunity to see many of Alaska’s iconic animals in a single location.
Alaska Adventure 2021: Gearing Up For An Alaskan Fishing Trip
An Alaskan fishing trip can be the adventure of a lifetime and an experience you will never forget. “You never go all the way back” is a popular Alaskan expression, and you will want to repeat and share this unparalleled excitement with friends and family.
Alaska Dream Maker
The Last Frontier is still the land of grand adventure, spectacular landscape majestic animals and fishing beyond belief. Alaska changed my life. Without doubt 1963 was a boy-to-man summer thanks to the experiences encountered on a four-month 8,000-mile journey from the Mid-Atlantic States to the wilds of Alaska.
Fishing Friday: A $1000 Alaska Fishing Trip
What? A week’s fishing in Alaska for $1,000? Impossible… but here’s how. When I was a young man I camped with my grandfather for an entire summer in Alaska, and he taught me to be frugal. Often, he would stop along the highway to pick up a blown innertube or a small plank, prompting my question, “What in the world will you do with that?”