MJTravels

Day 3 of Silver Salmon Fishing: First a recap of last night’s fishing. Grandpa called it a night after dinner and Jim, Dad and I went out with Jason for some night fishing. We were able to find a new hole close to the mouth of the river. The fish were coming from the ocean in waves. I couldn’t get a picture that would do it justice, but it was amazing. There were so many swimming up that is looked like the beginning of a triathlon when all the swimmers are splashing around together. We would just wait a minute and that school of salmon would swim right through our fishing channel and you could pick a few off. The game and fish patrol flew over the river yesterday afternoon and they said there was 750 ... read more

Day 2: First day of Silver Salmon fishing We all slept well after a full day of fighting halibut and woke up early to be at the Yakutat airport (if that’s what you can call it) to board the bush plane and head to the Tsiu River (pronounced si-u). There are two pictures of the plane below. It definitely wasn’t Delta Airlines, but the ride felt very safe. The views out of the window were incredible the entire flight. I included a picture below that shows my view out of my window the entire flight. After about an hour of flight time, we arrived at the river and landed directly next to the lodge (picture of runway is included, once again, definitely not Delta Airlines). The entire camp staff was outside waiting for the plane and ... read more

Hopefully pictures work here, sometimes this blog site doesnt upload the photos, but I'll keep trying.... read more

I am just testing to see if this works and am getting a link for people to be able to find this blog. I am going to try and post once a day and will try to upload as many photos as possible to document the trip. Feel free to comment if you would like, not sure how it works, but I think there is an option. -MJ... read more