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Fish Alaska February 2019.Pdf Volume 19 • Issue 2 • February 2019 50 Cremata Andrew © Departments Fly 20 Features Traveler 6 Boats 22 Davis’s Awesome Adventure Creel 10 Saltwater 30 by Marcus Weiner 36 Gear Bag 12 Stillwater 34 Ask most anglers from whom they learned to fish, and the Online 14 Recipe 70 usual answer is their fathers. A special bond often forms from childhood fishing trips, especially trips that last a Fishing for a Compliment 16 Advertiser Index 73 few days. Publisher Marcus Weiner took his son, Davis, Salmon Sense 18 Final Drift 74 to the Nush this year to fish for Chinook. How to Plan a Remote Float Trip by Fish Alaska Staff 42 36 64 An Alaskan float trip can provide the absolute best that North America can offer regarding angling, wilderness, © Troy Buzalsky © Troy scenery and adventure. However, float trips are not © Marcus Weiner © Marcus something to be approached without considerable planning. Our staff, contributors and float-trip experts share some of their experience with you to help you plan a float trip, whether it’s your first or your 15th. Alpine Fishing Adventures by Andrew Cremata 50 Reaching the best Alaska fishing holes requires a little extra effort. Most anglers equate Alaska fishing with fishing close to sea level. However, like the lower 48, 42 Alaska has alpine fishing opportunities for lake trout, grayling and even brook trout. Cremata even tells of a © Dave Fish © Dave nearly two-foot-long brookie . Discovering Real Alaska by Scott Haugen 58 Flying into remote parts of Alaska, whether for a day trip or a week-long float, puts you into places with big, unpressured fish, incredible scenery and often abundant wildlife. In this piece, Scott paints a picture of what you can expect from a typical fly out by describing two of his recent fly-out trips. Abundance at Every Corner—Alaska’s Kwethluk River by Troy Buzalsky 64 The 2019 Anchorage Troy Buzalsky spent 11 days this summer floating the Boat Show Preview Kwethluk River near Bethel. Challenged by grayling, COVER / Our good buddy Scott Stamper of Yakutat silvers, rainbows, sweepers and braids. In hindsight, he Lodge, showing off the rewards of a fine day page 22 catching coho on the Akwe River. © Brian Woobank said the Kwethluk took him on the trip of a lifetime. February 2019 FishAlaskaMagazine.com 3 PUBLISHERS Marcus Weiner Melissa Norris ASSOCIATE PUBLISHERS Patrick Speranza Kathy Anderson EDITOR George Krumm OPERATIONS MANAGER Wayne Norris EFFICIENCY MANAGER Ana Taylor ART DIRECTOR Bailey Anderson PRODUCTION MANAGER Russell K. Porsley III GRAPHIC DESIGNER Melissa Wong CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Greg Brush, Troy Buzalsky, Andrew Cremata, Scott Haugen, Pudge Kleinkauf, J.D. Richey, Terry Sheely, E. Donnall Thomas Jr., Jeremy Anderson, Nicholas Olhrich CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Anthony Madden, Tony Davis, Kristin Dunn, Brian Woobank, Kate Crump REGIONAL SALES MANAGER Rick Birch (907) 394-1763 SALES EXECUTIVE Garry Greenwalt (907) 345-4337 Fish Alaska Magazine PO Box 772424 Eagle River, Alaska 99577 Toll Free 1-877-220-0787 (907) 345-4337 main (907) 223-8497 advertising www.FishAlaskaMagazine.com ISSN 2475-5710 (print) ISSN 2475-5729 (online) SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Check out our specials at www.FishAlaskaMagazine.com Already a Subscriber? Call for our renewal specials! (907)-345-4337 Toll Free: 1-877-220-0787 Fish Alaska magazine is published ten times annually in January-July, Aug/Sept, Oct/Nov and December by Fish Alaska Publications, LLC, P.O. Box 772424, Eagle River, Alaska 99577. Send all address changes to P.O. Box 772424, Eagle River, Alaska 99577. One year subscriptions are $30 U.S. dollars for subscriptions in the U.S., $50 U.S in Canada, and $80 U.S. in all other countries.The single copy price is $6.99 in U.S. dollars. To subscribe by phone please call 907-345-4337. Editorial correspondence should be sent to Attn: Editor, Fish Alaska magazine, P.O. Box 772424, Eagle River, Alaska 99577. Unsolicited manuscripts and photos will be considered, but must be accompanied by a self- addressed stamped envelope. Although we will take care, Fish Alaska is not responsible for the loss or return of unsolicited materials. The opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily the opinions of Fish Alaska magazine publishers and editors. ©2019 by Fish Alaska Publications, LLC. All rights reserved. Van Hartley By Melissa Norris It was 1983 when a 30-year-old Van Hartley overheard his father Hugh take a memorable phone call. His dad listened intently as a budding sportfishing outfitter on the Alagnak River in Alaska outlined his plan while seeking monetary backing to fund his dream. After his Dad hung up, Van asked him about the conversation. Hugh wasn’t interested in backing this gentleman in his The Hartley family enjoying a visit at lodge quest, but Van curiously asked for his Bear Trail Lodge. © Van Hartley phone number and called him up. “Would you need air transportation support for this lodging outfit, by chance?” Van asked. The outfitter agreed he could use a trustworthy flight service plus he put Van Van Hartley flying one of his aircraft. in touch with two more outfitters providing © Kate Crump angling services on the Alagnak River, also known as the Branch River. The other outfitters showed their interest and support for his junior year. His family moved from when Van described his plans to start an King Salmon to Anchorage in November air-taxi service on the Alagnak, hence the of 1969 where he attended and graduated beginning of Branch River Air Service. from Dimond High in 1970. He took “I didn’t have a commercial pilot’s license, classes at UAA until he graduated in 1976 or an instrument rating, or an airplane, with a bachelor’s degree in economics while but I managed to do all of that in about taking some time off for travel and work in four months in between January and June between classes at UAA. During his college of 1984. I got a commercial pilot’s license years Van worked the summers at Brooks, and an instrument rating, and applied for Grosvenor, and Kulik lodges as camp help a state commerce transportation certificate. his first season and then as a fly out and Once I got that, I was able to take it into home river fishing guide. He managed the FAA and get a 135 certificate. Then I Grosvenor Camp for three half-seasons, and Van on a rare day when he could bought an airplane and got it approved for then would move to Kulik Lodge to guide break to go fishing. © Kate Crump 135 operations. We took a check ride and for the rest of the season. These three lodges then arrived on the Alagnak in early June of were known as Katmailand and are now part them right now like Bryan Pfaender and 1984 to start the operations of Branch River of Bristol Adventures. Van worked at Kulik Lenny Anderson. Bryan is their chief pilot Air Service.” Lodge his last full summer season in 1977. and has been working with Branch River for Right away two of the Alagnak outfitters Once he graduated he found work in the the last nine years. Lenny has been working began working with Van, who operated oil industry, employed by several casing and with Van for 15 years, having started out as as a solo pilot in his Cessna 206 on floats. tubing service companies, until 1983 when dock hand until earning his pilot’s licenses Within a month of being there, once seeing he started his air-service pursuit. and then accumulating the hours to become how Van worked, the third outfitter got Halfway through the summer of 1986, a commercial 135 line pilot. on board too. After that first season Van Van’s Dad had to step out of his role as a It takes a special person to be a pilot, realized if he was going to continue to do all pilot for Branch River due to an injury, so someone who excels at making sound of this, he would need a bigger airplane. A Van hired another pilot and then ultimately judgement calls like Van. “My job is to de Havilland Beaver was the obvious choice. bought his Dad’s Beaver the next year. In mitigate risk on a daily basis,” said Van, Van’s father, who bequeathed him his love the Spring of 1988 Van moved his base of “That’s the job of our chief pilot and our of flying, owned such a Beaver so he came operations to King Salmon, Alaska, where mechanic. As you know, flying planes in out to fly with Van during his second season Branch River Air resides today. They began Alaska is inherently risky. We do not push with plans to continue. to fly for state and federal agencies. By the our pilots to over-achieve. We want our Flying runs through Van’s blood. Hugh summer of 1989 they had three planes in pilots to realize limitations and encourage Hartley was a pilot and airplane mechanic operation. At that point they were also flying them to come back and land if needed. It’s in New Iberia, Louisiana, who was fatefully for several famous fly-fishing lodges making safety first which is fueled by a constant hired by Orin Seybert at Peninsula Airways roots in King Salmon before they had their communication process.” in the winter of 1967-1968. He packed own planes. Van shared that their team uses sayings up his belongings and tools and drove to Currently, Branch River Air Service has like, “When in doubt shuttle out.” And he Alaska.
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