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It depends on what kind of fishing you like. Most people do Combat Fishing. This is where 2000 - 3000 fellows, many drunk, show up at a quarter mile stretch of river that The Feds have designated can be fished that day. You stand three or four deep along the bank until it is your turn to shuffle up to the water and cast. Then you reel it in and shuffle back. If you yell "fish on" they actually move enough for you to wiggle your rod one way or another and maybe land the thing, unless someone gets pissed and it turns into a Toby Keith video.
Or, you can be a Beautiful People and have a bush pilot fly you to some deserted lake. MAKE him file a flight plan because most of them like to keep their choice spots secret. And about 1 in 20 bush pilots crashes and dies on the return trip and you are stranded on one of the three million lakes (accurate number) in the state with NOBODY having any clue where you are.
Second chances? The state gives few.
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Mike R
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something in between the two would work for me....LOL
dont worry..I would eventually figure out a way to do it all my way...I always do
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Having said all that, waking up to find a Hoare Frost on everything and seeing the beautiful sun shining over the Chugach mountains is quite, quite lovely. And you can count on a White Christmas. Yep, you will have one.
My favorite place in the state? I like Homer. But I LOVE Halibut Cove - an artsy commune full of Swiss Family Robinson types (possibly of "progressive social sentiment") across the bay from Homer. Really way, way cool.
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Miker: As I think about it, you and family need to live a year in Halibut Cove. It is so you!
And I mean that as a compliment - my favorite place in the state.
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In college I commercial fished quite a bit to help pay for my expenses......and I almost went up to Alaska to go crabbing....but I got talked out of it by the girlfriend....Im sorry I didnt go
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White Christmas??...sheesh..its been 20 years since I didnt have a white Chritmas....my one Chritmas in St Barts being the exception...LOL.....hell we usually have white Halloweens>>>>>
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Be glad you didn't go. Commercial fishing in Alaska has the highest death rate of any occupation in the US - by far.
You hit the water and you are dead. Nothing left but the crying. And the job itself is long hours in nasty conditions. When you finally get home, yep, you will indeed have 100K (or so, per year, not trip) in your pocket. But over the next few weeks, you will pee most of it away at the bar.
It is a hard life for harder men. And there are few to no women to soften it.
But, Halibut Cove is different. It is about sixty to one hundred people, almost all women and children (hmmm) who live in Swiss Family Robinson style chalets built on a boardwark thirty feet above the water in a beautiful circular bay. I think it is a "progressive" commune. I could be wrong, but that is what it looks like. And who can blame the ladies for fleeing to this sancuary, the state being a bit rough around the edges?
I like Halibut Cove. Really way, way cool.
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White Christmas??...sheesh..its been 20 years since I didnt have a white Chritmas....my one Chritmas in St Barts being the exception...LOL.....hell we usually have white Halloweens>>>>>
Well in Alaska you have White Everything. If you like to go to the mountains just outside of Anchorage (fifteen minutes away) you can have a White Fourth Of July.
Unless a bear eats you, which they do about a dozen times a year there.
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Be glad you didn't go. Commercial fishing in Alaska has the highest death rate of any occupation in the US - by far.
You hit the water and you are dead. Nothing left but the crying. And the job itself is long hours in nasty conditions. When you finally get home, yep, you will indeed have 100K (or so, per year, not trip) in your pocket. But over the next few weeks, you will pee most of it away at the bar.
It is a hard life for harder men. And there are few to no women to soften it.
But, Halibut Cove is different. It is about sixty to one hundred people, almost all women and children (hmmm) who live in Swiss Family Robinson style chalets built on a boardwark thirty feet above the water in a beautiful circular bay. I think it is a "progressive" commune. I could be wrong, but that is what it looks like. And who can blame the ladies for fleeing to this sancuary, the state being a bit rough around the edges?
I like Halibut Cove. Really way, way cool.
I know..I know...but instead I fished Georges Bank..and Hudson Canyon...in the winter..and that was no walk in he park either
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Most commercial fisherman fish the Bering Straight. The water temp is at or below freezing but it doesnt freeze because of the salt and rough conditions. The waves can be thirty or more feet commonly with fifty footers occuring and the wind is constant. When/if you do get home, "home" is often a little collection of ramshackle hovels around a smelly pier. The one local bar serves rot gut and brine and dinner equals fish, fish or, perhaps, fish. Women? Nope.
If you are a true Man's Man who likes the company of other Manly Men, go for it.
I am a softy. Leave me and The Ladies on St Barts. I'll keep a good eye on them for you, fellows.
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Mike R
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no thanks...too old for that crap now...I'll leave all that for the young studs to do.....
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no thanks...too old for that crap now...I'll leave all that for the young studs to do.....
Good answer. When your idea of "roughing it" means staying at L'Auberge Petit Anse, that is a sign of maturity, my friend.
Welcome to The Club. Like it or not, we are adults (though Lord knows our behavior wont give us away).
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