Post by lochmor on Nov 27, 2009 22:50:51 GMT
Twenty two of us went on an Alaska'n a cruise couple of years ago, here is some of the pictures.
Six of us booked a day on a boat , the skipper set up the down riggers wit a ten pound weight and small bait fish on them
William into the first one .
Two bald eagles saw him playing the fish and decided to try and take it from him.
George with a king.
Me and ma big fish.
After the cruise we went on what they call a land cruise , we travelled up through Alaska to Fairbanks and back to Anchorage where three of us fished ,sorry cant remember the name of the river it is the one Paul Young fished years ago on the telly , but I bet he didn't see what we saw ,it was sheer carnage , we witnessed so called fishermen tearing lumps out of fish , they were using fly rods with small weights bellow the fly and following the fish as they were coming in from the sea ,targeting them and hauling them out head first tail first side ways any and every way, it was disgusting , we saw at least 50 fish being caught this way and saw hundreds lying in a backwater with eyes out sides ripped open and flies sticking in them .Not a pretty sight .
Six of us booked a day on a boat , the skipper set up the down riggers wit a ten pound weight and small bait fish on them
William into the first one .
Two bald eagles saw him playing the fish and decided to try and take it from him.
George with a king.
Me and ma big fish.
After the cruise we went on what they call a land cruise , we travelled up through Alaska to Fairbanks and back to Anchorage where three of us fished ,sorry cant remember the name of the river it is the one Paul Young fished years ago on the telly , but I bet he didn't see what we saw ,it was sheer carnage , we witnessed so called fishermen tearing lumps out of fish , they were using fly rods with small weights bellow the fly and following the fish as they were coming in from the sea ,targeting them and hauling them out head first tail first side ways any and every way, it was disgusting , we saw at least 50 fish being caught this way and saw hundreds lying in a backwater with eyes out sides ripped open and flies sticking in them .Not a pretty sight .