Alaska Kayak fishing
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:34 pm
Just back from a week of fishing with Howard McKim out at Prince of wales island. This was part two of a video we are doing kayak fishing all over the country this year.
First stop was Florida. We got to kayak fish Boca Grand Pass, told we were the first to do it from kayaks, and that was a blast. Pulled on one Tarpon but it busted me off , but all in all that trip was mostly a bust with super slow fishing, though a great time was had.
In Alaska we were based out of Rocky Bay lodge, which is a floating lodge. These people were awesome and treated us like kings. The fishing was on fire with over a 100 fish a day. Nothing real big, and no salmon to be seen anywhere around but it was a great great trip with tons of cookie cutter 20 pound halibut and lots of lings and rock fish.
One of the highlights was having a pod of Orca cruise by us and the large male breached pretty close to me. We got that on video and a few great still shots of it in the air with me in the frame. Unfortunately I can't post those photos as the photographer asked me not to, he is trying to sell them.
We released most of what we caught and didn't keep a fish until the forth day of fishing and I still came home with a fifty pound box of fillets and spot prawns. I caught most of my fish using the Shimano Lucanus jigs but the fishing was so good we even caught some big fish on a jig we made from three bottle caps. Truly an awesome trip.
Here are a few shots from the trip.
Tiger Rock fish
Ling Cod
Alaskan Halibut
Better Ling
Double on Yelloweye rockfish
Hitchhiking Lingcod
Another good ling
Yellow eye
Rocky bay lodge and float plane
From the plane
China Rock fish
Spot Prawns pulled from the kayak
Howard Mckim
Taking the kayaks for a spin
Lisa the owners daughter, a real gamer.
If you want to see what the video is all about they have put up a web site, not a lot there yet but it will grow as we do more shoots.
http://www.helipress.com/kayakfishingmovie/
First stop was Florida. We got to kayak fish Boca Grand Pass, told we were the first to do it from kayaks, and that was a blast. Pulled on one Tarpon but it busted me off , but all in all that trip was mostly a bust with super slow fishing, though a great time was had.
In Alaska we were based out of Rocky Bay lodge, which is a floating lodge. These people were awesome and treated us like kings. The fishing was on fire with over a 100 fish a day. Nothing real big, and no salmon to be seen anywhere around but it was a great great trip with tons of cookie cutter 20 pound halibut and lots of lings and rock fish.
One of the highlights was having a pod of Orca cruise by us and the large male breached pretty close to me. We got that on video and a few great still shots of it in the air with me in the frame. Unfortunately I can't post those photos as the photographer asked me not to, he is trying to sell them.
We released most of what we caught and didn't keep a fish until the forth day of fishing and I still came home with a fifty pound box of fillets and spot prawns. I caught most of my fish using the Shimano Lucanus jigs but the fishing was so good we even caught some big fish on a jig we made from three bottle caps. Truly an awesome trip.
Here are a few shots from the trip.
Tiger Rock fish
Ling Cod
Alaskan Halibut
Better Ling
Double on Yelloweye rockfish
Hitchhiking Lingcod
Another good ling
Yellow eye
Rocky bay lodge and float plane
From the plane
China Rock fish
Spot Prawns pulled from the kayak
Howard Mckim
Taking the kayaks for a spin
Lisa the owners daughter, a real gamer.
If you want to see what the video is all about they have put up a web site, not a lot there yet but it will grow as we do more shoots.
http://www.helipress.com/kayakfishingmovie/