Thursday, August 7, 2008

Kustatan River Coho Salmon Fishing

After spending a long day, yesterday, floating the Matanuska River for work, I took the day off and went fishing on the Kustatan River. Sean Burril joined me and we left Anchorage around 1pm and arrived at the Kustatan at around 3. It took us a little while to find the airstrip, but when we did we were the only plane there. A few minutes later another plane landed. We were a little late (or early) to catch the right tide to fish but we did okay, anyway. I caught a fish within the first 30 minutes and we both limited out (three fish) by 7:30. It was a great day.

Kustatan Coho Salmon
My limit of coho.

Kustatan River Strip
There were only two other planes, for most of the day. Then, around 6:30, three more planes showed up. We left at 8.

Kustatan Bear Tracks
There were clearly some bears in the area.

Horse Fly...Kustatan River
The horse flies were fierce!

Kustatan River
Sean fishing.

Kustatan Bear
This bear wandered by just as we were ready to leave....really there is a bear in this picture!

Sean and Chris
On the way home. You think someone might have been nice enough to tell me that I had mud on my face!

Rainbow
It was pouring rain and there was a rainbow as we landed back at Lake Hood at 9pm.