Day 161, 6/10/2011

Woo hoo! We are headed out of town today for our first salmon fishing weekend. We get there via the Richardson Highway, one of the few major roads we have in Alaska. This photo shows the longest stretch of straight road you will see anywhere in the state, other than maybe on the North Slope tundra.

Here is our favorite fishing hole, at the mouth of the Klutina River where it converges with the Copper River.

The Klutina is a very fast moving river with beautiful blue-green water, and is excellent for both sockeye and chinook fishing. The kings are fun to catch, but the sockeyes are the real prize if you like to eat fish. Some of the freshest and most sought after fish in the world swim right by this log on their long journey to the spawning grounds.

Here friend Steve Thurmond wrestles one more for the stringer up on to the bank.

The mountain in the background is Mount Drum, a stratovolcano in the Wrangell Mountain Range.