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I have been an outdoors person all of my life. When I married, my wife and I especially liked hunting, fishing and camping. In our later years we’ve have the good fortune to travel to various different states to do the very things we love most.
Montana was a place we only dreamed about so after we retired we made plans to go there experience the things we could only watch on TV. The Western scenery was breath taking, the elk, buffalo, mule & whitetail deer and antelope hunting was fantastic. Fly fishing for trout in Yellowstone and Madison rivers was a dream come true.
As time passed toward the golden years we had good fortune again to meet a man from Alaska who told us we must try to make the trip there to see and feel the very best of hunting, fishing and camping. We took his advice and made plans to see first hand what we had only seen on TV and magazines. Words cannot explain what we experienced.
Countless photographs and hours of video refresh our vision and minds of a journey that was to be repeated again a few years later.
Alaska is much bigger then words!
Making the drive from Anchorage down the Kenai Peninsula toward Homer Alaska has to be one of the most breath taking scenic drives in the USA. We stayed in a beautiful cabin only 10 yards from the world renound Kenai River teaming with King, Sockeye and Silver Salmon. The town of Soldotna has everything you could ask for with friendly folks eager to make your stay a memory for life.
Our Alaskan friend is Captain Tim Erion, who owns and operates Vader Charters out of Deep Creek Alaska. Tim specializes in fishing for Giant Pacific Halibut and King Salmon in Cook Inlet. Living on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay I thought I had experienced fishing at it finest…I was only playing in the sand compared to what Alaska has to offer.
Out in Cook Inlet about 23 miles you cannot see the land you launched from. On a clear day you’ll see one of the snow covered volcano’s on the Alution Islands rising out of the water in what appears to be 20 miles away. Our captain said it was almost 80 miles away. In Alaska it seems like you can see forever.
As soon as you anchor in 300 foot deep water for Halibut the captain tells you what to expect and how to fish for one of the best tasting fish you’ll ever put a hook into. By the time the second person has their bait on the bottom, the first person is getting a bite. Circle hooks the size of your palm with a slab side of salmon for bait should give you a hint of what’s coming next. I never worked that hard fishing in my life. It felt like I was in battle with a fish that could very well take me overboard.
In no time, all six fishermen had their limit of Halibut and we never saw another boat while we were anchored…amazing!
What ever you have to do to get to Alaska … try as hard as you can to do it. No one should leave this earth without the experience.
- David & Joan Hagan
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