Month: September 2022

I had decided to fish a week or more at stocked lakes around Anchorage. I rolled out of the van at noon. The lake was flat and beautiful. I started to get the belly boat ready and my fingers were pink and were hurting from the 45 F temperature. Oh hell no! Ice cold air,…

When I could not sleep last night, I opened up my e-copy of “The Flyfisher’s Guide To Alaska”. This book was written in 2004, and updated in 2012. I couldn’t make a lot of sense of it before my trip, as all the places described in the book were just words to me. However, Now…

I’m headed north again, looking for lakes and creeks I can fish for fun and bragging rights. A week long rain is due as seen in the clouds above. I set my float tube and gear ready to go out, when I had a “great” idea. The shore is flat out to a drop off….

Goodbye Soldotna, maybe forever. I do hope to get back up here again, with a much better detailed plan and a much more athletic body. Rain and lack of hiking ability has made this trip less than perfect, but still really great. The Kenai River is too high for bank access. I asked about bank…

I’m ready to move on to another area to try to find Coho Salmon. However, I think I must check out Centennial Park this evening as a small run came through last night. Puttering during the day, and not having been to the town of Kenai, a quick 5-10 mile drive was taken. And, what…

I had the normal start-getting-going around 1:30 today. I puttered, then headed out to Centennial Park to see if more Coho were being caught today. I saw 4 landed in about 45 minutes so I headed out in my boots, as I’m lazy, and tried fishing from shore. Unfortunately, flipping a large bb-shot weight has…

I have to say that the bait fishermen here at Centennial Park in Soldotna know how to make waiting for a bite quite enjoyable. Note the tent. Under it are tables filled with food, and everyone has a nice chair to sit in, to eat while waiting for a fish to bite their soaking roe….

Sleeping in and puttering all day. As Always. During the day the fishing area at Centennial Park in Soldotna is taken up by bait fishermen, with rods spaced anywhere from 10 to 25 feet away. Regardless, I would not be able to get in to do a Kenai Flip until spaces open up in the…

Things get out of whack when uploading posts, from memory, for a few days in the past. I write this blog like I’m writing it on the actual day, because it is not a good idea for people to know where one actually is when travelling (except my children who get GPS updates on my…

I slept in. Big Surprise. Then I drove into Homer to pay my bills for the month and get my energy back after hanging out in my van for almost a day. I ran errands, stocked up on supplies, and took pictures of Homer. Oh yeah, it rained all night and the Anchor River came…