alaska fishing trip: yes bay lodge a fishing tale by gwen & gordon bell, sharon & gerald...

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:handcarver1@yahoo.com

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 BernardLanding

Admiring

Showing: Two 20# King Salmon23 August 1999 Jim Bernard, Guide &

Gwen & Gordon Bell

Showing: Gerald’s

70# Halibut

Cleaning

Transporting:150 pounds

of fishat only

$60 /pound

Eating…