Alaska Fishing Trip

I have a few pictures from my Alaskan fishing trip to post. We have fished for halibut, king and red (sockeye) salmon. When I arrived at the airport, the three other guys picked me up. Within two hours we had a limit of reds. On the previous day, 230,000 reds entered the river from the ocean. Yes, that was a one-day count. Reds are arguably the best eating of the salmon, so we have been stacking them up. Here is a picture of our catch once the limit was increased to 6 apiece.We fished for halibut in the Cook Inlet. For some reason I caught a ton of cod. These aren't your yummy fish and chips cod, but rather pretty nasty creatures. One day I caught 13, gaining myself the title "Codfather." Here is a picture of the place where we launched for our halibut trip.My main goal for this trip was to catch a big king salmon. After catching three in the 10-15 lb range, I finally hooked a nice fish. The fish launched into the air a couple of times and almost took me for a swim at one point, but I finally landed it. It measured 49" and 56 lbs. This one might have to go on the wall.This has been a great trip and I still have a few days left. I think I have fished more on this trip than I have in the past three years combined. Yesterday we fished for 21 hours straight. Today it is raining so we slept in and watched as a cow and calf moose fed about 70 yards from our cabin.

Well, the boys are gearing up to head out again, so I better grab my raincoat and get going.