Pictures of Fishermen (and Women), Page 6

Dad playing a big fish

Dad fishing the Kenai

Here's the first of many new pictures of Alaska that I'll be putting online as soon as I get the chance. It's a panorama of my dad standing and looking across the valley of the river where we both caught our first arctic grayling an hour or so later.

You've got to see it full-size to appreciate it.

This is probably my largest grayling to date -- it's about 18 inches.

Even when it's not the peak of the salmon season, the Kenai is pretty crowded.

Here's my first Alaskan salmon, a small king that put up a fun fight.

This colorful brown was my dad's first nice trout on a dry fly. It was also the best of the day, taken with a nice cast after doing some slightly crazy wading through silt and deep water to get into position.

One of several nice smallmouths my dad and I caught on a mid-August float trip.

My dad went to great lengths to place a good cast above this high spruce sweeper into a little back slough where he saw a grayling rise. The cast was good, he assures me, but the grayling did not take.