Silver salmon are known among anglers as being especially good sport on light tackle. They are belligerent fighters once hooked, often exploding out of the water in a melee of acrobatic summersaults and line ripping runs.

We crawled forward, slowly moving against the ceaseless torrent of fish that swam en masse underneath the waters surface. It didn’t stop. The further we drove up into the creek, the more fish spooked and passed alongside the boat. Finally it reached its zenith.

We have made it through. Beneath the ceiling of clouds a world that few people will ever see with their own eyes is revealed in dramatic fashion, the Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula.

Before we dive into a conversation discussing the variables in different Dolly Varden populations, let’s resolve to answer an earlier posed question: are Dolly Varden and Arctic Char the same thing? The answer is no, they’re not.

You can’t fully comprehend how remote Alaska Wilderness SAFARI is until you take the ~1.5 hour charter flight from King Salmon to camp. The journey over and through the rugged Aleutians Mountains along the distant Pacific coast of the Alaska …

Fishing 2019 delivered the best silver salmon run we’ve seen in a decade, in size and numbers! The pink salmon numbers were solid but not out of control (like 2017 and 2015). The chum salmon run was lighter than average …

Sometimes I find myself shaking my head in disbelief of the raw beautify of the Pacific side of the Alaska Peninsula. All who have spent time out here fishing or hiking or soaking in Mother Nature, even if for only a week, are truly lucky people.

Back to reality, we did confirm, that skills aside, this was the best week of fishing we had experienced in our lives.

Alaska Wilderness SAFARI offers a visually stunning landscape (and of course great fishing). For the average person it’s fairly straightforward to capture a memorable photo or two. But to take dozens of exceptional photos takes skill, along the will power …

By Guide Drew Griffith (aka “Machete”) To tell the story of River X we have to go back to the end of the 2017 season. I was on the last flight out of our bay along with Rus and one …