Trout, Salmon, and Grayling Streams

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Alaska

> The Gulkana River

Closeup of Josh's big rainbow

There's a fish-cleaning table right IN the river at this landing. Driving out on the gravel bar is the norm, too. It was a good place to field-dress my sockeye salmon. Tossing the guts out into the river has them devoured by hungry gulls within seconds. That's illegal in many places, but in Alaska it's the preferred way of dealing with fish waste: these ecosystems are driven by dead salmon and fully equipped to deal with it.

Turbulent Class III-IV waters.

This is my dad's first wild Alaskan rainbow trout.

Here I'm netting a nice rainbow in the rapids.

This isn't quite the size of salmon I was looking for on this trip...

This float trip gave us a couple views of the distant peak of Mount Wrangell, an inactive volcano.