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Great Fishing and Great Weather!

Postby P.O.W. Sportfish » Mon Jun 24, 2013 5:48 am

We've had some downright awesome fishing here this past week and the weather has been nothing short of spectacular here in Craig, Alaska. Here's a few pics from the past week of shenanigans :D

Craig Kvam and his wife Sally have been here many, many times. Here's Craig with another perfect Chinook 8-)
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Capt. Troy Thain about to net a fish for Jim Lucas from Gunnison, Colorado. We had a great time with the Lucas family and hope to see them back again next year.
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Margene Smaaladen with her first king salmon. Happy, Happy!
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It's remarkable how many silvers there are already this year. We generally don't see many silvers until around June 10-ish. We've already had a few limits and a some chunky ones including this 17 pounder caught by Joe Williams from Vacaville, CA. He caught it with Capt. Rafael.
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Going, going, gone! This king burned off 460 feet of line on it's first run. Fun stuff!
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Jeff "Buckethead" Bailey with a nice 44.5" halibut that weighed 41 pounds. The fish was just under the 45" slot limit. Ol' Buckethead was a happy camper!
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With flat calm seas a couple days ago we blazed to some pinnacles well offshore and found a ton of ling cod, yelloweye, halibut, and sea bastages. Here's a hitchhiker that came up from 300 feet on a big sea bastage. We took limits of nice keeper lings and released many more up to the 50" mark.
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Team "Slice and Dice" (Tim, Katie, and Maggie) with some nice king salmon from a days catch. We're super lucky to have Tim and his gang processing our fish every day. They do a GREAT job!
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Don't forget Shannon...she's part of the "Slice and Dice" team also ;)
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The wife and kiddo show up on the island this afternoon...very much looking forward to seeing my family again. Until next time good fishing to you!
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Re: Great Fishing and Great Weather!

Postby Nelly » Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:34 am

Just looking at the forecast for next week and it looks excellent for us thumbup

I hope you don't get the other end of the jet stream.... thumbdown

Maybe we'll both get the high pressure! rockon
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