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Cut herring bait dangles from the tip of a spinning rod... not my usual gear!

The Tanana still has some big chunks of ice overlaying the gravel bars in many areas.

These dust storms are a common sight on the Tanana whenever it hasn't rained for several days. The river's channel, mostly over a mile wide, consists mostly of vast bars of dry gravel and glacial silt that's easily kicked up by the wind.

This is the Tanana River in Nenana, Alaska. It's one of the Yukon's largest tributaries. I can break my usual "no naming rivers" policy for this picture because there's no fishing (except with bait for burbot) in the Tanana -- it runs with incredibly turbid glacial melt-water in which game fishing is pretty much impossible. You literally can't see an INCH into it, probably not even half an inch.

This is the glacial Tanana river, a major Yukon tributary. The water is so opaque with glacial silt that you can't see half an inch into it.