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Oldredbarn | December 25th, 2014, 8:14 pm | |
Novi, MI Posts: 2608 | we met up with my wife at Denali National Park and celebrated our 4th anniversary Four years already! Wow...Time does fly. Great pictures. 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 | ||
Wbranch | December 26th, 2014, 12:08 am | |
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733 | Is that a sheefish? The monster you are holding? Pretty awesome! Did you catch it on a fly rod? How did it fight? | |
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years. | ||
Lastchance | December 26th, 2014, 12:43 pm | |
Portage, PA Posts: 437 | Beautiful photos. The picture of the Northern Lights behind the tents after dark is particularly awesome to me. Thanks for the posting them. | |
Martinlf | December 29th, 2014, 12:23 am | |
Moderator Palmyra PAPosts: 3233 | Most interesting, especially your dad's description of the caribou hunt. Glad you had some help there at the end! | |
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'" --Fred Chappell | ||
Falsifly | December 29th, 2014, 10:28 am | |
Hayward, WI. Posts: 661 | WOW Dave, after hearing about your retirement from the DNR and since we haven't talked in a while I've often wondered what you have been up to. Great story, but I am looking forward to hearing it first hand maybe over a cold beer or perhaps you would prefer something hot. | |
Falsifly When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that." | ||
Kschaefer3 | December 29th, 2014, 2:39 pm | |
St. Paul, MN Posts: 376 | Is that a sheefish?I thought pike minnow because of the mouth. Are they related? | |
Wbranch | December 29th, 2014, 10:46 pm | |
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733 | I looked it up on Google "show images of sheefish" and the pictures that came on were exactly like Jason's fish. | |
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years. | ||
Troutnut | December 30th, 2014, 12:25 am | |
Administrator Bellevue, WAPosts: 2737 | It was a sheefish, and caught on a white and chartreuse deceiver I tied. I was out there to help with a sheefish monitoring program. I had to miss out on the really awesome fishing, when they were catching big sheefish every cast all day long, because that part of the program (collecting physical samples and donating the fish to the local village) finished before the part I was involved with started. The purpose of my trip was to help set up some technology to monitor the outmigrating post-spawn fish, so we were at a camp miles downstream of all the fish, getting equipment in place before the fish started moving. I was lucky that we had some business farther upstream one evening and I got to throw some casts into productive water. After trying for a while with no strikes, we were getting into "just one last cast" territory, and one of the biologists who knows a lot about fly fishing for sheefish started guiding me very specifically -- "cast right there, let it sink, now strip it, a little faster." On the very first cast with his instructions, this ~12-15 lb male sheefish engulfed my fly. Awesome experience! | |
Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D. Troutnut and salmonid ecologist | ||
Crepuscular | December 30th, 2014, 8:29 am | |
Boiling Springs, PA Posts: 923 | Wow Jason what a wonderful recant of you and your father's adventure. Very cool to read two perspectives on the same journey. Also very nice that you two got to experience wild Alaska together. Great photos and you saw a wolverine! Thanks for posting, to both you and your father! Eric | |
Jmd123 | January 1st, 2015, 1:34 pm | |
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2611 | WOW, just WOW, but of course more than that. Jason, you Sir are a "high adventurer", and I see where you get it from now too! I haven't had the privilege of having my father help with field work (though my ex-wife did help out when I was in Oregon in '92-'93), but good for you, getting to share that experience with him. For my father and me, it's guns, in fact he worked on a couple for me while I was downstate visiting him & Mom (been a while for him, they changed some parts on guns he's familiar with so he needed another pair of hands to get things back together!). Beautiful fishie, I bet that one put up a great fight! Happy 2015 to you and your family, Jason! Jonathon | |
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
Jmd123 | January 1st, 2015, 1:47 pm | |
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2611 | P.S. Kyle, sheefish are related to whitefish and cisco ("herring" here in Michigan), in the family Coregonidae. Some taxonomists put this family into the Salmonidae as a subfamily, though I think that's fallen out of fashion these days. The "pikeminnows" or "squawfish" are actually great big "minnows" in the family Cyprinidae, the carp or minnow family. But of course there are similarities, it's called convergent evolution, where creatures from different lineages develop similar body forms to cope with similar environments or other survival problems, e.g. competition. Like there are tetras and livebearing aquarium fishes that look like little pike, and barracudas in saltwater look like bigger pike... But I digress - sorry, out comes the biology teacher...oh, and if my taxonomy is wrong and anyone knows better, please feel free to correct me! Jonathon | |
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
PaulRoberts | January 4th, 2015, 3:50 am | |
Colorado Posts: 1776 | Loved reading of your adventures Jason. And the best part is that there's more to come. | |
Macnsienna | January 23rd, 2015, 5:08 pm | |
Posts: 1 | Mac: I am so so jelly! (of everything, but especially the sheefish) Sienna: I am super impressed that you got Lena out on Riley Creek. Go Lena! Mac: Come to NZ, I have some great local trout spots figured out here. Sienna: Last night Mac was out fishing until 11pm. I'd better get a trout license and figure out how to flyfish or I'm going to be spending a lot of time alone! Thank you for your comment on our blog and we really have enjoyed reading about your adventures as well. Keep up the awesomeness!! | |
Tomsix1 | February 18th, 2015, 10:01 am | |
Posts: 7 | Wow very very nice pictures. | |
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Corey | June 29th, 2015, 10:37 pm | |
Tampa, Florida Posts: 6 | Congrats on the PHD and appreciate you sharing these awesome pictures. For now I am enjoying my 90 degree days in Florida before heading up to chase some big salmon. | |
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