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hooked · 01-27-2004, 04:35 PM

If you can go, take advantage of it and take as much time as you can. I was lucky that I got a whole month.

My trip was far from a high-end, fancy lodge experience that most destination resorts offer. My Dad was the school teacher in the local village of ~200 people, 99% Inuit. The village was "modernized" in the 1930's when gold and platinum placers were discovered but, when the yields were low, the mining industry pulled out and the village survived by sustenance fishing (welfare is the true source of income). Being a sheltered white kid from the suburbs, it was an eye-opening experience.

We set up a campsite about 8 miles upriver and would spend a week in camp then hike out for a couple days in the village before heading back up. We got into char, grayling and rainbows during the first half and king and sockeye salmon during the last half of the month. During the end of the month, it would be light for 20+ hours a day and we would fish, trap and hunt for days at a stretch without bothering to go to sleep. Outside the village, we never saw another person the whole time. We saw plenty of grizzly bears, eagles, rabbit and ptarmigan though.

Here's my first king.

01-27-2004, 04:35 PM	#9
hooked Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Bedford, NH Posts: 626	If you can go, take advantage of it and take as much time as you can. I was lucky that I got a whole month. My trip was far from a high-end, fancy lodge experience that most destination resorts offer. My Dad was the school teacher in the local village of ~200 people, 99% Inuit. The village was "modernized" in the 1930's when gold and platinum placers were discovered but, when the yields were low, the mining industry pulled out and the village survived by sustenance fishing (welfare is the true source of income). Being a sheltered white kid from the suburbs, it was an eye-opening experience. We set up a campsite about 8 miles upriver and would spend a week in camp then hike out for a couple days in the village before heading back up. We got into char, grayling and rainbows during the first half and king and sockeye salmon during the last half of the month. During the end of the month, it would be light for 20+ hours a day and we would fish, trap and hunt for days at a stretch without bothering to go to sleep. Outside the village, we never saw another person the whole time. We saw plenty of grizzly bears, eagles, rabbit and ptarmigan though. Here's my first king.