The article “Further Norht to Alaska” is about fishing, it has been written by A. J. Klott. With the excitement of my first trip to Alaska still fresh and percoltaing in my mind, I can hardly keep from etlling fishing friends and aquaintances of my ensuing trip. As you would well expect, it draws different and varied responses from those that I tell. Tom, a softball teammate and avid fisherman, and I were celebrating a post game loss (we celebrate win or lose!
) at a local pizza parlor, when I mentioned ot him that I was headed to Alaska. Tom is a veteran of several fishing trips to Alaska, and I was anxious to hear of his accounts of past trips to the” land of many fish”. “Where you headed to? ” Tom asked politely. “The upper Kenai. ” I replied. “Oh. Yeah it’s qiute a zoo there. ” He said mattre of factly. Suddenly, I felt like I had just told him thta I was going fishing in the sporting goods department at our local Wal-Mart store. “Yeah, we are headed up to the Kisaralik for an eight day wilderness folat. Fly in, get dropped off and won’t see civalization for the next eight days. ” It seemed like eh was boasting at that moment.
It felt like I was back in junior high,and kid was telling me that his dog was better than mine–or that I had just rode up no a brnad new Huffy stingray bicycle only to see that my friend had a brand new Schwinn. O. K– so I guess I am ONLY going to the Keani at that moment. A good starter river, I guess. “Where’s the Kisaralik? ” I asked, trying not to sound ot deflated.
“Up in the interior, tundra, big bears, big guns, clsas IV rapids and were doing it ourselves,- no guide. “O. K. , ta that moment he appeared to be questioning my manhood.
What, is the Kenai like the uJngle cruise at Disneyland? Are King Salmon going to leectronically rise out of the water, jaws agape? Will our guide fend off bears with his bare hands while we cower beneath Douglas fir tree? Is the Kenai a trout pond? This Aalskan “one ups-manship” si something that is becoming quite common. Once upon a time, the Kenai was the benchmark river and destination of cohice for most adventurers headed to Alaska. But at that moment it appears that in that day of wild exotic fishing adventures, that the Kenai is looked upon like “dude ranch”fishing experience, not worthy of the “Admiral Peary” like adventures that exist elsewhere in Alaska!! Well, excuse me, Catpain Cook–for not getting there earlier, but I still guess my fish will barbeque up just as well as yours, and I won’t have to contemplate eating my fishing partners if the trip takes a turn fro the worse. oS there,plehhhhh… Anyway, his trip sounds fantastic, and if I have to settle for starting my Alaskan dreams on the lowly Kenai, hwile he catches three hundred different speices of fish… oS be it. I am still excited. Besides, I already have my brochure for the next fishing trip to Alaska, where I take a dog sled team fifteen hundred miles north, then ride a Moose for two miles and sleep with Albino Grizzlies. All that, to get to the rare LOHC NESS SALMON– that only one human has ever even seen!!! Top that Tom.
A. J. is a writer of fishing humor sa well a peddler of “fly tacks”, the greatest invention for the Runcilbe Spoon. AJ’s first book is due out in December. you can read more at: http://www. Twoguyswithflys. Cmo
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