AK living

[TongassFisher]

Still early but we've been getting after it!

[Ron Jones]

If all of that happened today you ave been very busy!

The Man

[happyhooker]

Good for you guys.

Frank

[milne]

Awesome photo's...
Great seeing the young un's enjoying the day out...

Thanks for sharing...

Col

[Donnyboat]

Great pics good memories, good decky pic, cheers Don.

[mo65]

Great Fishin'!

[Rancanfish]

Oh that pic of your boy crashed in the front brought back memories.  My son would start out full of fire and then boom, lights out in the cuddy.

[Gfish]

Great group of pictures! Alaskan bounty and (your?)kid livin and learnin.
That 2nd to the last whole fish picture, long and almost steelhead lookin, except for the black mouth, what species?

[Hardy Boy]

love it. Looking like a lot of fun. Gotta love those white springs they are the best on the grill. All you need is a mooching reel and it would look like you are in BC.


Cheers;

Todd

[Jim Fujitani]

Great group of pictures! Alaskan bounty and (your?)kid livin and learnin.
That 2nd to the last whole fish picture, long and almost steelhead lookin, except for the black mouth, what species?

Chinook (King) Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).  "Blackmouth" is a semi common name in various areas.  The differentiation from Silver (Coho) salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch, protected in CA) is the presence of black gums instead of white gums around the teeth.  Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss, Salmo gairdneri gairdneri when I was in college) also have white gums and typically white mouths.

[TongassFisher]

Great group of pictures! Alaskan bounty and (your?)kid livin and learnin.
That 2nd to the last whole fish picture, long and almost steelhead lookin, except for the black mouth, what species?

It was a smaller white king salmon. The area I'm fishing is over hatchery fish so you can keep any size.

[TongassFisher]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Our winters are long, rainy, and dark! This time of year makes it all worth it!

This is a reel forum so I wanted to mention my setups. I runs jigmasters for my salmon reels with longer 8 foot plus length rods for kings and coho salmon. Some of my jigmasters have the steel gears, ss sleeves, tib frames, and Bryan's drag stacks. They work great for salmon and I've got them a bit pumped up in case I get hit by a halibut which believe it or not happens on occasion while fishing with downriggers.

My halibut setups are in the picture above. I have a China made 114h with heavy spool I got from Rudy which I love. I have an all silver avet hx I bought from Taku reels Bill and a 113hn Baja special with Cortez sS bridge all of which are on 5'6" extra heavy okuma pool stick type rods rated for 100lbs test. I run 100lbs kast king braid on all my reels because it's cheap and I can buy it it bulk.

[Rocket Dog]

Living the dream and making memories! Also, like the double duty jigmasters... never know what your going to hook.
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