Just A Note to My Follower(s). There was No Cell Signal between Elko and Jarbidge. Posts and comments were delayed (until today’s posting on day 6). I’m sure this will happen throughout this trip. It rained hard throughout the night.  I contemplated staying in Jackpot at the Casino 93 because it was so cheap ($60/night)…

I decided to fish for Lahontan Trout in the Mary’s River of the Humboldt National Wilderness.  It was raining slightly, but constantly.  It turned out that the road to Mary’s River used the same great dirt road as the way to Jarbidge.  The only difference was to turn right instead of left when one hits…

The photo above is the Jarbidge River upstream from the town of Jarbidge. The guidelines from the authors of the Western Native Trout Challenge indicate that one should fish upriver from the town in search of the wily Bull Trout. The river was a creek, with a lot of rock hobbling to find a few…

The first hour of the gravel road to the town of Jarbidge is really a treat. One can do 45 on it comfortably, but not suggested. After an hour the road is still good, but gravelly and 20 mph is safe, sort of. However, the scenery was Spectacular. The last half of the road was…

I got an early start for me at 9:00 AM. However, I had to stop by Tracy’s Auto Repair in Lewiston as I had a check-engine-light on and Tracy is an awesome mechanic. I’ve been getting thrown codes whenever the van was powering up a hill. The code referred to low air flow. Tracy did…

A lot has happened since last September when I came home. I had planned on fishing around Anchorage and their stocked ponds during September. I got out of my van at noon ready to fish and it was 40 degrees outside. Why would I sit in a float tube, for stocked fish, in freezing weather,…

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…