Day 4 was set to be our day off to do as we please but we met a guy in Seward, that said he would put us on the Sockeye and we would have a shot at all of our limits (6) each man. My pops was out and was just as happy hanging out at the Caribou cabin at Rod n Real Alaska watching the nice selections of “CVD’s as he called them. Lol it was a bit of a walk out into the bay at low tide. Its either one of the largest tide or the largest tide drops in the world and he would have had a hard time or surely fell in the water
After reaching the small gravel parking lot overflowing with trucks and guys and families in waders and natives in T shirts and jeans. It was pretty cold and I wished I brought my wool hunting socks.
On every Rod n Real Alaskan fishing trip the guides or Capt’s all had Avet reels minus Dave on the Kenai river had behemoth fly reels for the flossing
Autumn at the lodge was taking care of the day to day operations bc the owner and his wife were having a baby this week and we couldn’t be happier witn our trip and the accommodations. We wanted to make some changes to our schedule and Autumn was very helpful at making that happen in addition to lending us rods and reels and boot waders to take 2 hrs away for the day luckily they didnt have any other river trips planned so it worked out for us
We meet our buddy in the parking lot and head out to the beach access spot and once we get out of the small trail it opens io to long strip of fishermen flossing for sockeye its a bit bit of a walk to get out to them and beyond the small pools of water still holding fish from the tide going out We got out there just at the slack end of the low tide going into high tide and stayed out there for a while until it just got a bit hairy coming back in we didnt catch out limit each bit brought in 6 or 7 The sights are unbelievable In Seward
My brothers dont like flossing or snagging to much one one just complained about everything and its a bit of too much physical work for my old man to do all day my Oldest brother (56) refused to learn the new ways and just complained about snagging Well he brought his ultra light out there and out buddy took one look at him and said what are you planning on doing with that? Mind you he has 4lb test on it and the “snagging hook alone could surely break this rod/line He refused and pushed on and set it up All our buddy could do was say goodbye to his $4 hook 1st cast the line broke before the hook hit the water i was laughing so hard I had to walk away or surly there would have been a fight im still laughing just as hard this day was awesome
Reach out if you want to know where the salmon spot is in Seward. I don’t want to just post the spot
