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A good steelhead trip?

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JD,

I am looking for a steelhead trip next year. Last year we did a float trip on the Aniak which looked alot like the trip you just got back from. I really like the do it yourself fishing but not apposed to some guided. I guess what I’m saying is I don’t want to be in a Vegas style
lodge and satisfied with a tent. Looking for a killer steelhead trip and not paying a killer amount of $. See you on the Klamath. Talk to you soon,

Eric

Eric, I’d head for Terrace, B.C. Lots of incredible water up there with HUGE fish! You can go guided with some outfits and pay a reasonable rate for lodging and then do your own food to save $$. A lot of it, you don’t even need a boat!

Epic Alaskan Float Trip!

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JD & Alaskan rainbow.jpgI just got back from an unbelievable 7-day, self-guided float trip in wild Alaska with K-Dawg and the fishing was absolutely s-i-c-k! We mainly stripped smolt patterns and hooked well over 100 trout and char per day in the 3- to 7-pound class! The video is in the works but here’s a little sample to whet the ol’ appetite….

New Lake Tahoe record brown trout!

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Friend and veteran lake Tahoe charter skipper Mike Nielsen of Tahoe Topliners Guide Service holds a new Lake Tahoe record for brown trout that client Don Nanounouchi of San Jose, CA caught with him on Friday, June 20. The beast weighed 15 pounds, 2 ounces.

The previous mark was held by a 14-pound, 3-ounce fish caught in 2006 by an angler Nielsen is very familiar with — himself.
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Fluff Chucka goes Yard: A chrome king on the fly!

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My good pal Mike Perusse of Washington State shows that you don’t necessarily need to have pink fingers at the end of the day to catch a river king.

Mikey caught and released this chrome beauty on Alaska’s Nushagak River on a 15 -foot GLoomis spey rod and a fly affectionately known as “Blue Bird.”