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Seven Species Series: Silver Salmon

09.14.20

Silver salmon are known among anglers as being especially good sport on light tackle. They are belligerent fighters once hooked, often exploding out of the water in a melee of acrobatic summersaults and line ripping runs.

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Seven Species Series: Silver Salmon


Seven Species Series: Pink Salmon

09.07.20

We crawled forward, slowly moving against the ceaseless torrent of fish that swam en masse underneath the waters surface. It didn’t stop. The further we drove up into the creek, the more fish spooked and passed alongside the boat. Finally it reached its zenith.

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Seven Species Series: Pink Salmon


Homecoming

08.31.20

We have made it through. Beneath the ceiling of clouds a world that few people will ever see with their own eyes is revealed in dramatic fashion, the Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula.

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Homecoming


Seven Species Series: Dolly Varden (cont’d)

08.10.20

Before we dive into a conversation discussing the variables in different Dolly Varden populations, let’s resolve to answer an earlier posed question: are Dolly Varden and Arctic Char the same thing? The answer is no, they’re not.

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Seven Species Series: Dolly Varden (cont’d)


Distant

05.11.20

You can’t fully comprehend how remote Alaska Wilderness SAFARI is until you take the ~1.5 hour charter flight from King Salmon to camp. The journey over and through the rugged Aleutians Mountains along the distant Pacific coast of the Alaska …

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Distant


SAFARI Camp Season Summary, 2019

12.16.19

Fishing 2019 delivered the best silver salmon run we’ve seen in a decade, in size and numbers! The pink salmon numbers were solid but not out of control (like 2017 and 2015). The chum salmon run was lighter than average …

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SAFARI Camp Season Summary, 2019


2019 SAFARI Camp Photos Ready to View

11.21.19

Sometimes I find myself shaking my head in disbelief of the raw beautify of the Pacific side of the Alaska Peninsula. All who have spent time out here fishing or hiking or soaking in Mother Nature, even if for only a week, are truly lucky people.

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2019 SAFARI Camp Photos Ready to View


2018 Guest SAFARI Camp Trip Report

02.24.19

Back to reality, we did confirm, that skills aside, this was the best week of fishing we had experienced in our lives.

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2018 Guest SAFARI Camp Trip Report


SAFARI 2018 Special Photos

01.25.19

Alaska Wilderness SAFARI offers a visually stunning landscape (and of course great fishing). For the average person it’s fairly straightforward to capture a memorable photo or two. But to take dozens of exceptional photos takes skill, along the will power …

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SAFARI 2018 Special Photos


River X

12.11.18

By Guide Drew Griffith (aka “Machete”) To tell the story of River X we have to go back to the end of the 2017 season. I was on the last flight out of our bay along with Rus and one …

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River X