From Koinonia Guide Service:
http://koinoniafishingguides.com/
Hi Gang,
This is a report from our Alaska
Trip.
1. Saturday,
July 14th leave Harrisburg
at 12:05 PM on Delta. Arrive in Detroit
at 1:36PM and leave for Minneapolis/St. Paul at 3:25PM. Arrive in
Minneapolis/St. Paul at 4:21PM and leave for Anchorage
at 5:15PM and arrive in Anchorage
at 8:01PM which is actually 4 hours later or mid night Eastern Standard Time.
We got our luggage and rental van and checked into the Anchorage Hilton. After
checking in we did our annual trip to the movie theatre. After the movie we
went to bed which was about 4:00AM Eastern Time.
2. Sunday,
July 15th we had a buffet breakfast meeting and introduced all the
clients to each other and gave a brief description of the week to come. After
breakfast we checked out of the hotel, did some shopping and then headed out to
Soldotna which is where our base is the balance of the week. Soldotna is on the
Kenai Peninsula and we stay right on the Kenai River.
Upon arrival at the Kenai River Inn we assigned rooms and while the crew
settled in we went to pick up our fishing gear. The sockeye just started
arriving in the Kenai
River so the guys spent
the evening catching Sockeye Salmon from our dock and I took 145# to the
processor. It was raining when we left Anchorage
but the son came out when we arrived at Soldotna.
3. Monday,
July 16th we headed out at 4:30AM for the town of Homer to fish from the Foxfire for Halibut
and Ling Cod. The weather was clear but we had 6-8 foot rollers and it was a
long tough day on the water. We were actually on the boat for approximately 15
hours. On the way home I dropped off 148# of Halibut Fillets and 153# of Cod
fillets. The boys were whooped when we got home and there was not much salmon
fishing done.
4. Tuesday,
July 17th I got the group up and 8 people went on a trout float
trip. Both groups enjoyed the trip and many rainbow trout were caught. They
were all released to fight another day.
5. Wednesday,
July 18th we left for Seward at 4:00AM to go fishing on the Voyager
for a Silver Salmon and Halibut Trip. The silver salmon action was fast and
furious and it did not take long to catch our limit of 42 = 3 per man. We then
headed out to catch a limit of Halibut and this again was very productive and
we had our limit with several hours of the trip left. We always hire the entire
boat and therefore we have some input with the captain of what we want to do.
We discussed our options with the captain and decided to go for some ling cod
and bottom fish. We ended up keeping about 10 ling cod, 5 sea bass and some
yellow eye rock fish. I took these fillets to the processor that night and we
had 420# of fillets. The guys were not exhausted when we returned and we caught
some Sockeye Salmon from our dock.
6. Thursday,
July 19th we had 8 guys scheduled for a power boat King Trip but do
to the lack of King Salmon in the river, the fishery was closed. We also had a
group of guys scheduled for a Halibut Trip out of Deep Creek but we were blown
off the water due to bad sea conditions. The group enjoyed a relaxing day of
fishing for Sockeye and then that night we did our annual evening out of
enjoying the Official Alaskan Balladeer, Hobo Jim. Once again he put on a great
show and his songs reflect the Alaskan life amazingly.
7. Friday,
July 20th we sent 4 guys on a Trout Float Trip and once again we had
our guys blown off of Deep Creek. We again hung around camp and fished for
Sockeye and some guys did some site seeing and shopping. We fished for Sockeye
until 1:00AM.
8. Saturday,
July 21st my father and I got up at 4:00AM and went down to the dock
and caught some Sockeye before packing up to head home. It was raining so the
fish processor gave us a room inside to package our fish. We boxed
approximately 30 boxes of fish fillets to bring home. Some guys brought fish
home on the plane and others Fed Ex their fish. We left Soldotna around 1:00PM
and were at the airport in Anchorage
by 4:00PM. We checked in the guys for the early flight and we all went to diner
at the Sea Galley in Anchorage.
The plant allows me to take fish to them until Mid Night so I do not get to bed
until about 12:30AM each night and I get up at 3:00 to 6:00AM everyday so I am
beat by the end of the week. I was on the plan at 8:30PM and I was asleep
before the plan took off. We came back thru the same cities and arrived in Harrisburg on Sunday at noon.
This year we the majority of our group was from PA but we
had 2 from
Utah, 1 form
Seattle,
1 from
Illinois and 1 from the
Bahamas. It was
a really good group and we all got along very well. Should you like to know
more about
Alaska,
you can reach me at
koinoniagdesvc@aol.com.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND AND LUV THE TUG………REB
