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Alaska......
- Thread starter CTobias
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CTobias
Professional BS'r
Finally got to float the upper Kenai yesterday. I've only ever bank fished, and spend most of my time down on the middle Kenai in my boat, since that's where most of the pigs live.
Fishing started out decent, but slowed down a bit as the skies cleared and sun came out. As soon as it started dropping the fishing really turned on. When I say turned on, I mean turned on!! It was pretty silly how fast it changed. No, I didn't catch anything on dry flies or some super crazy fly. I was fishing beads, because there are millions of eggs in the water. The Sage One 10' 6wt really is an awesome rod and I was impressed with the amount of power it has for only being a 6wt.
I will shut up, here are some pictures.
Oh yeah....I also caught this TOAD!! Yes he ate a bead, a GLSCo 6mm scrambled blood red to be exact! He measured 26" x 15". My biggest rainbow so far.
Fishing started out decent, but slowed down a bit as the skies cleared and sun came out. As soon as it started dropping the fishing really turned on. When I say turned on, I mean turned on!! It was pretty silly how fast it changed. No, I didn't catch anything on dry flies or some super crazy fly. I was fishing beads, because there are millions of eggs in the water. The Sage One 10' 6wt really is an awesome rod and I was impressed with the amount of power it has for only being a 6wt.
I will shut up, here are some pictures.
Oh yeah....I also caught this TOAD!! Yes he ate a bead, a GLSCo 6mm scrambled blood red to be exact! He measured 26" x 15". My biggest rainbow so far.
golden beetle
Active member
Magnificent.
Personally this is the best thread I've read on any fishing site.
Personally this is the best thread I've read on any fishing site.
sunsignarcher
New member
CTobias
Professional BS'r
Tobias is a fishing god!!!!!!
Now let's not get carried away. I was only kidding in the non reports reports thread, but thank you for realizing my extreme fishing prowess.
golden beetle
Active member
How you doing, Tobias, after the earthquake there?
6.2-magnitude earthquake shakes Anchorage, Alaska - CNN.com
6.2-magnitude earthquake shakes Anchorage, Alaska - CNN.com
CTobias
Professional BS'r
CTobias
Professional BS'r
Here are a few pictures from today. We boated three bows that were 25" and boated one 26" bow. You could say we did alright.
The ride down
The floatilla
I guess the scenery here in Alaska is ok.
The porn
The biggest of the day measured 26" x 15"
A great way to end the day.
The ride down
The floatilla
I guess the scenery here in Alaska is ok.
The porn
The biggest of the day measured 26" x 15"
A great way to end the day.
CTobias
Professional BS'r
The season never truly ends. There is lots of open water all through the winter on the Kenai. Unfortunately everything else locks up pretty good.
golden beetle
Active member
Here are a few pictures from today. We boated three bows that were 25" and boated one 26" bow. You could say we did alright.
The ride down
The floatilla
I guess the scenery here in Alaska is ok.
The porn
The biggest of the day measured 26" x 15"
A great way to end the day.
Were those stockies?
No wild bow ever grows more than 18 or so.
CTobias
Professional BS'r
Hillery met her. It's my buddy Jeremy's GF. He's the other ugly guy in the pictures.
CTobias
Professional BS'r
Yup. All Kenai strain stockers.
No wild bow in your neck of the woods gets more than 18". Out here we shake off 18" rainbows.
mob201
Joe's Hopper
hmph what? ... must have dozed off there. what were we talking about?
oh. yeah, nice video Tobias. you're not the Vlad of Alaska though. Vlad's movies are full of sexy Russian fishwives and barbecued grayling under a starlit sky and guys who drive tanks to the fishing hole.
You're more like the wim wenders of fly fishing. I mean that. Seriously. The distinction is lost on Lightenup because he has no culture.
Your video captures the stark hopelessness of existence in the modern world. What a cruel joke life is. We strive and strive, but we're still just pitifully small, insignificant figures, casting endlessly into a bottomless gray maelstrom. Maybe we're catching fish, maybe we're not. Nobody knows for certain. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. Don't wait for closure. There is none. God is dead. We have killed him. Right?
At least that's what I got from it.
Anyway, nice video man! Really made me want to end it all.
golden beetle
Active member
Just keep at it.
I can tell, as a fellow filmmaker, that you are exploring the possibilities of the medium...
I can tell, as a fellow filmmaker, that you are exploring the possibilities of the medium...
lightenup
A fan of Boobery
hmph what? ... must have dozed off there. what were we talking about?
oh. yeah, nice video Tobias. you're not the Vlad of Alaska though. Vlad's movies are full of sexy Russian fishwives and barbecued grayling under a starlit sky and guys who drive tanks to the fishing hole.
You're more like the wim wenders of fly fishing. I mean that. Seriously. The distinction is lost on Lightenup because he has no culture.
Your video captures the stark hopelessness of existence in the modern world. What a cruel joke life is. We strive and strive, but we're still just pitifully small, insignificant figures, casting endlessly into a bottomless gray maelstrom. Maybe we're catching fish, maybe we're not. Nobody knows for certain. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. Don't wait for closure. There is none. God is dead. We have killed him. Right?
At least that's what I got from it.
Anyway, nice video man! Really made me want to end it all.
Are you kidding me.....
on a Wim,
Buena Vista Social Club 'Chan Chan' at Carnegie Hall - YouTube It never gets old....this one
The Vlad of Alaska he is...
CTobias
Professional BS'r
A buddy and I were talking about how we are truly spoiled. Anywhere else in the country a fish over 20" would be a great fish. There are guys here who don't consider it a successful trip unless they catch a bow over 25". Definitely spoiled.
