Nancy Lakes

Today we skied at Nancy Lakes State Park near Willow,AK.  Lots of fresh powder on the trail. We've had a great time visiting my Mother, sister and her family in Palmer,AK.  Cruising the backwoods of AK makes me wonder why I ever moved to the lower 48.

Archangel trail-Hatcher Pass,AK

Skiing the Archangel trail with my wife, sister and nephew. My sister and family live about 15 minutes from this place and know the area well.

Palmer,AK - Temp. -6

"twilight on the frozen lake, a north wind about to break, on footprints in the snow, and silence down below". -Bob Dylan

Winter storms and tying steelhead flies

With the rivers around here in a state of what seems like permanent blow out, time is best spent at the vice. My winter run steelhead box needed some new mojo, so I had to get busy.
A few feather wings, a few hair wings, some marabou, and egg patterns and I'm good to go. One front after another stacking up in the Pacific like a run of red's headed upstream.

I'll have to wait it out for that magic moment when the rains have subsided and the rivers drop and clear, even if just for a few hours!

last of the summer runs

Summer run fish soon to be but a memory.

The rains of winter will start shortly, swelling rivers and prompting the winter run fish to come in from the Pacific Ocean. It was a great season and I'm sad its mostly over.

The forecast is for rain to start tomorrow and it wont let up until spring/summer next year. So goes the cycle.

west end o.p. action

the cutt took an october caddis dry and I scored on the bow with a mahogany dun.

nice hatch of md's and this pig ate one on a long cast. #16

9 miler

..no limit on brookies in the high country lakes of ONP

You have to work for them though. This lake is a 9 mile round trip from t.h.

They will smash just about anything you throw at em.

Fall colors are out now and it is a great time to get out and enjoy the backcountry.