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In this area, the first place to catch grayling each year is also one of the least idyllic places in Alaska to fish, a spring-fed slough in downtown North Pole where many of the Chena River's grayling congregate to spawn. It runs low and clear while all the other rivers in the area are high, turbid, and still holding more icebergs than grayling. The angling pressure at popular access points looked more like the Catskills than Alaska, but I was still excited to catch my first fish in months. The grayling were abundant and eager, and I enjoyed ridiculously easy fishing on nymphs and more interesting action on dries for a couple hours before I tired of the highway buzz and the gas station scenery and headed home. Soon, water levels will drop and the real Alaska will be ready for play.
Photos by Troutnut from Badger Slough in Alaska
First fish of 2014
StateAlaska
LocationBadger Slough
Date TakenMay 1, 2014
Date AddedMay 2, 2014
AuthorTroutnut
CameraCanon PowerShot D10
A decent grayling for this stream
StateAlaska
LocationBadger Slough
Date TakenMay 1, 2014
Date AddedMay 2, 2014
AuthorTroutnut
CameraCanon PowerShot D10
StateAlaska
LocationBadger Slough
Date TakenMay 1, 2014
Date AddedMay 2, 2014
AuthorTroutnut
CameraCanon PowerShot D10
On-stream insect photos by Troutnut from Badger Slough in Alaska
The least welcome sign of spring
StateAlaska
LocationBadger Slough
Date TakenMay 1, 2014
Date AddedMay 2, 2014
AuthorTroutnut
CameraCanon PowerShot D10
Most recent comments on this post (latest on top)
| Martinlf | May 12th, 2014, 7:37 am | |
 Moderator Palmyra PAPosts: 3233 | Beautiful, Jason. Thanks. | |
| "He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'" --Fred Chappell | ||
| PaulRoberts | May 2nd, 2014, 11:03 pm | |
 Posts: 1776 | Stunning grayling. Oh my! What beautiful colors. Oh my. | |
| Oldredbarn | May 2nd, 2014, 10:02 pm | |
 Posts: 2608 | Jason, Good stuff! Makes me wonder what it may have been like fishing for them in the Au Sable before they completely disappeared in the nineteen-teens sometime. A beautiful fish... I've mentioned it here before but the only Grayling left in Grayling is in the Grayling restaurant, hanging on the wall. If I remember it sometime I'll take a picture of it. If you are struggling with a little civilization in Alaska, I'm wondering how you are ever going to make it "down in the lower 48". :) Spence | |
| "Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood | ||
| Jmd123 | May 2nd, 2014, 2:37 pm | |
 Posts: 2611 | Nice fishies, Jason! Congrats on finally getting out with a fly rod. You got mosquitos already??? We haven't even seen them around here yet, and I think it's actually going to be a while... Jonathon | |
| No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
| Kschaefer3 | May 2nd, 2014, 11:30 am | |
 Posts: 376 | I agree with CJ, beautiful fish! The colors that comes off grayling when the light hits them is incredible. | |
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