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blog BY chris_hunt ON September 2 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: A meal from the wild
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Chicken of the woods mushrooms. Photo by the author.    By Chris Hunt   A little over a year ago, I stood up to my thighs amid a thick run of pink salmon in a remote, rainforest stream on Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island, trying like hell to tempt one of the few early cohos that were mingling with [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON August 29 - 0 COMMENTS
The mystery of Alaska's missing kings
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Alaskans are painfully aware of the recent downturn in king salmon populations on many of our streams. There have, fortunately, been a few glimmers of hope when it comes to this iconic symbol of Alaska. For instance, there was a better than expected return to the Yukon River, which saw the largest [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY j.weis ON August 23 - 0 COMMENTS
Pebble advisors must know the answer is still no
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Alaska Program director, Nelli Williams, holds a microphone for a crowd of Pebble Mine opponents saying, "Wrong Mine, Wrong Place!" at a Monday rally in Anchorage. Photo by Brandon Hill From an op-ed published in the Alaska Dispatch News. Amid another EPA comment period regarding protections for [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY j.weis ON August 10 - 0 COMMENTS
It's Alaska Wild Salmon Day—celebrate by helping to protect them
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By: Nelli Williams One afternoon late last summer, I took advantage of a sunny, warm day to take my kids to a playground near Campbell Creek. It was packed with kids swinging, jumping and sliding. Suddenly, we all heard shrieking near the river. It quickly became apparent that nothing was wrong, [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON July 10 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Flossing
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by Eric Booton The midnight sun came and went. We are so accustomed to the unending daylight that we neglected to pack headlamps. We were already run out a fishing hole earlier in the evening by black bear and passing anglers were warning us of a momma brown bear with cubs. It wasn’t the most ideal [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON May 16 - 1 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: An Alaskan in LA—A carp story
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By Eric Booton   I couldn’t resist chuckling to myself as I boarded a flight from Anchorage to Los Angeles with my fly rod in hand. I work, live and play in Alaska. The salmon state. The land of 30-inch rainbow trout. Home of seemingly endless fishing options. Yet I, a self described mountain bum, [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON April 19 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Kiss the fish
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By Eric Booton I practice catch and release. I pinch my barbs and tie on barbless hooks when I can. I carry a rubberized net and am an avid supporter of the keepemwet movement. If you are following the Trout Unlimited blog I can pretty safely assume that you are familiar with the concept of [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON April 11 - 0 COMMENTS
Video spotlight: Once You Pop, You Can't Stop
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Who doesn't like catching fish on top? With poppers, no less. Several years back, while fishing with a great group of guys on Alaska's Tongass National Forest, I was introduced to the fact that pink salmon—yes, pink salmon—will hit poppers just as they're reporting for spawning duty from the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON March 14 - 0 COMMENTS
Short casts: Spring in Montana, steelhead in the Tongass, Minnesota expo
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Every year about this time, I'm lured over Monida Pass into the Beaverhead drainage, and, inevitably, after a day or two of fishing, I go a bit farther. I'll venture from there, up the Big Hole to the Bitterroot, or maybe even farther north to Rock Creek, where I tell myself a sqwala might make an [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY j.weis ON March 8 - 0 COMMENTS
Giving away the Tongass: A very bad idea
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By: Alaska Program Staff Anyone who understands the value of public lands to hunters, anglers and other outdoor recreationists, and the fundamental role public lands play in many of our lives has cause for concern. Today we're writing to highlight just one of the threats to our public lands. ​ [ READ MORE... ]
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