Bottom fishing paradise

[hammer4reel]

Tracey and I met up with Tim W and Tim G in Yakutak Alaska last Sunday morning .

we jumped on a bush plane and took the 60 mile flight to the remote Icy Bay camp.

Scenery was unreal , and only got better each day .

after settling in and meeting everyone that would make our stay there feel more like we were staying with family .

Capt Mike gave us the run down that we would bottom fish Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday.

wednesday halibut is closed . So we would bottom fish for rockfish, troll some for salmon and head off to see one of the local glaciers .

i could really write a book about how great this vacation was, but will try and keep it short, possibly adding more later .

Fishing in the Capt eyes was slow he said only a 5/10: well it was some of the most action I have ever seen .

we were into fish at a very steady rate for well over 8 hours each day.

we gathered glacier ice for the fish box daily to keep our catch cool

we caught yellow eye rockfish, black rockfish, long cod, halibut and  salmon .

we released a lot of fish each day , just keeping a halibut each per day ,  black rock fish , a few yellow eyes as they have a yearly 1 fish limit on them . And we caught skates that pushed well over a 100 pounds.

 

fishing with both Tim’s made this trip a lot of fun as each angler got just as much enjoyment seeing others fighting fish .

due to us having only 4 in our party the staff each came and fished with us a day making this trip even more special . As they worked tirelessly each day for us.

the food was nothing short of 5 star , def exceeded our expectations daily with unreal 4 course meals.

wednesday mike flew a drone up through the glazier, and I was able to land my best catch of the trip.

followed by a special 4th of July feast made to happen by Tim W of gigantic king crab legs .

we also trapped spotted prawns on Wednesday.

 

i was sick as a dog Monday, travel and time changes really wrecked my system bad, but fished through it and made some of the catches even more memorable

 

 

enjoy the pics

Edited July 8, 2018 by hammer4reel

[hammer4reel]

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[Russ 11]

Looked like an awesome trip Dan . Great pics.  Congrats 

[hammer4reel]

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[hammer4reel]

Caught a big octopus on Tuesday , that was some fight pulling him up. And we used him through the week to catch many of our halibut as well as some rockfish..

 

was as cool fishing for these fish with our own buck tails that Tracey and I tied for fluke fishing here.

And for the record 6" swimming mullets are as deadly on Halibut as they are on fluke here

 

def going to be tough fishing for fluke here now after enjoying fighting halibut on them

Edited July 8, 2018 by hammer4reel

[_X7]

 Fishing trip of a lifetime! What a great place to propose. All of this time and it took  was Tracy to say yes to put that big smile on your mug. Congrats Dan and Tracy

[hammer4reel]

3 minutes ago, _X7 said:

 Fishing trip of a lifetime! What a great place to propose. All of this time and it took  was Tracy to say yes to put that big smile on your mug. Congrats Dan and Tracy

 

[_X7]

Very nice, Dan! Very nice!

[Live to Hunt]

Great adventure congrats 

[hammer4reel]

Just now, Live to Hunt said:

Great adventure congrats 

Thanks !!

[Bones]

Awesome 

congrats

[nmc02]

Kilsong from jig n pop was just there too...said it was unreal fishing 

[hammer4reel]

1 minute ago, nmc02 said:

Kilsong from jig n pop was just there too...said it was unreal fishing 

He was there the week before us, and is actually going back in 2 more weeks.

He has fished there quite a few times 

[JHbowhunter]

yeah I gotta do this...  Glad it all worked out - you did the research and it paid off in spades...   CONGRATS on the engagement first and foremost, and great photos the one with you both having bent rods and Tracey agape is the best!     Scenery - perfect "10"

[hammer4reel]

4 minutes ago, JHbowhunter said:

yeah I gotta do this...  Glad it all worked out - you did the research and it paid off in spades...   CONGRATS on the engagement first and foremost, and great photos the one with you both having bent rods and Tracey agape is the best!     Scenery - perfect "10"

 Thanks

That double was the two twins I posted and we released after the pic was taken.

WAS cool getting them side by side and getting them both landed quick enough to get the pic together