Alaska Trip

Russell went to Alaska with his brother Nathan, cousin Jason, and uncles Jim, Ron, & Kelly. They had a great time. They flew into Anchorage and rented a motorhome and then drove and fished!!

The first river that they came to that they thought they would be fishing in but for some reason fishing wasn't good so they went to a different river.

Russell after he caught his King Salmon. It was 38 lbs. It was about 10:30 pm. That was their schedule--they would sleep in and fish late into the night.

This is preparing bait--the salmon eggs, they used it for bait to catch the fish.

Nice scenery...

Picking Salmon berries in Valdez. They had icecream and berries one night and pancakes and yummy berry syrup the next morning.

This is the Wellington glacier...

This is in Valdez where they fished for pink salmon. The dark part of the water is full of fish. The seal lions were feeding on it. They also saw a bear here eating his fish. They had to wait for the tide to go out before they could fish-- (the pink salmon they just fished for and ate fresh--not so good of fish to pack and bring home.)

The bear.. Look closely

Fishing for the red salmon. Yes, I know it is confusing you would think that the fish that looks red would be the red salmon-well the fish that looks red is the King Salmon--the fish that looks silver but the meat is bright red is the Red Salmon.


Then to Ninilchik to go halibut fishing. They went for the afternoon out on the water to fish for halibut. Nathan worked hard to bring in a big halibut but when he got it up it was a stingray (skatefish) bummer it was 150 lbs. Kelly also had a big catch but it was an octopus. When they couldn't bring in a big halibut they went to the Chicken Hole so they could catch their halibut.

They each caught their 2 limit.
Then the funniest picture every. Nathan was fishing and he caught the tiniest fish ever. It was the size of his lure.

Russell had a great time and made some great memories. I am glad that he was able to go.