Sam And Saundra's Second Time Around - Part 66

Sam And Saundra’s Second Time Around – Part 66

Alaska 

7/9/11- 8/3/11 - Talon Air Adventure

We fly around sky-viewing and earth-spying on the vistas on the other side of Cook’s Inlet, where roads dare not go. After seeing two black bears stop their fishing activities to take notice of us, we land on a large, milky brownish lake.  Other planes have already landed and are tied to docks. Strange looking when no other buildings are around.  As copilot, I am proud to say our plane landed very smoothly on the lake.  Much smoother than I expected.  No dips and bobbing. I love it!  We climb out of the plane and are loaded right onto our assigned boat.  We have a river guide.  Turns out he’s a good one. 

Our Plane From Our Boat

We all opt to go to the bear side of the lake, as we all had seen quite a few moose.  Besides, the fishing hole was on the bear’s side.  The scenery is stunning.  We make it to the other side of Big Lake lake and get in line behind two other boats.  Each boat gets 45 minutes fishing time at the site where Wolverine Creek entered the lake, since that’s where the salmon wait.  They wait for the next rain, so that the creek water will increase and they can swim up to their spawning ground.  In the meantime, they were stuck and we could see them.  See them!  Awesome! Weird! Salmon.  Sockeye salmon.  While we waited for our turn, we also waited for the bears to come out of the wilderness and let us take pictures of them.  We got moved into the fishing hole quite fast, and no one was behind us.  Our 45 minutes did not start until someone else started to wait to fish.  Denise catches her first, second and I believe a third.  She caught a glimpse of the fish oil phenomena that occurs in Alaska. Gets you. Hooks you. We rotated around the boat, as we are in a small boat and the fishing spot was only on one side of the boat.  We fished.

 Fish Oil In His
Eyes

Then, right to our left – just right over there – a black bear comes out of the trees. He obviously wants to fish.  He looks hungry. Three more make an appearance and we take pictures, watching them as they survey the fishing grounds and try their luck.