Alaska Fishing Trip: Yes Bay Lodge A fishing tale by Gwen & Gordon Bell, Sharon & Gerald Smith August 21-25, 1999 San Jose - Seattle -Ketchikan -Yes Bay
Ketchikan AK Airport Ferry Landing: overcast, showers
Ketchikan: T-shirts, molded bears, foxes and eagles, cruise ships, boats, seaplanes and many tourists
Indian Totem Pole Carving:
Port of Ketchikan
Ketchikan to Yes Bay
Yes Bay Lodge: Rustic Elegance
From Yes Bay Lodge front porch
Dining: great food & scenery
Telepresent Worker sans phone line
Exercising and reading after a sedentary day of fishing
Salmon Swimming Upstream
Local Fishers
A typical forecast: We dodged a bullet with 3 days of pleasant weather
Fishing… with our guide, Jim Bernard Going Finding Sitting and setting the hook or missing the strike Winding a.k.a. reeling Landing Admiring Showing Cleaning Transporting
Going
Finding
Setting the hook or missing the strike
Winding AKA reeling
Jim Bernard Landing
Admiring
Showing: Two 20# King Salmon 23 August 1999 Jim Bernard, Guide & Gwen & Gordon Bell
Showing: Geralds 70# Halibut
Cleaning
Transporting: 150 pounds of fish at only $60 /pound
Eating…