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"When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom." Chief Joseph
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Sorry idk why a lot of my pictures aren't showing. I'll get them up when I figure it out
"When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom." Chief Joseph
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Hey Will, welcome to the Fire! Nice pics. I think you can only put up so many per post. So, you can edit them(links) out of your first post on this thread and then put them in your second and third posts in this thread. Like so:
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"When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom." Chief Joseph
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"When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom." Chief Joseph
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"When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom." Chief Joseph
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Well what do you know!?!? thanks smokinggun!
"When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom." Chief Joseph
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Thanks for sharing the photos.
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If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Hey fishhead! I've seen videos of people launching V-hull boats off the beaches and into the surf of AK, looks like it can be a circus! Every year someone in a sled tries at PC and rarely, if ever, have I seen it go according to plan. We've had to help more than a few out. That being said I like those bayrunners, it would definitely be the way to go. If I ever get away from dories a bayrunner would be the route I take. Perfect for crossing bars and running off shore for butts and albies or picking the righ day and hitting the reefs off of PC. I hear ppl complain of the rough ride when running full tilt off shore but it can't be worse than a flat bottomed boat of the same weight lol
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"When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom." Chief Joseph
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Hey back at ya B,B, & B
Actually it's easy to beach launch out of Anchor Point with the right set-up. The extreme Cook Inlet tides (10' to 20' low to high - depending) and the very shallow sloped bottom is what made it possible. I could launch and never get my truck wet.
What you'd do is launch on an incoming tide, fish both sides of the slack tide (which was the best time for halibut), and pick-up on the outgoing tide. I covered the trailer bunks with the plastic used on snow sleds and one person (two was easier) could push it off the trailer and it would slide on without a ton of effort. Back up to the water's edge, push the boat off, go park the truck, and by the time you got back the boat would be floating. Paddle out, fire up the motor, and go fishin'.
To pick it up you'd run up to the beach, pull the motor, hop out, drag it up as far as you could, and then go get the truck. By the time you got back the boat was sitting high and dry on the beach. I had the rear roller set up where you could back the trailer up under the bow, lift the boat up, and get it halfways on. Then just wench it up and over and you'd be set to go.
It took me a couple a years to get the trailer and boat dialed in for beach launching but in the end I could launch it and pick it up by myself. One day I forgot my hip boots and launched it wearing hiking boots and never got my feet wet. It was a very calm day though.
The other option at Anchor Point was using the tractor to launch but they charged $45.00 to put you in and pick you up back in the 90s. If you had a bigger heavier boat it was the only way you could get out and fish there. The tractor could launch a 25 foot + boat and it's what the charter boats did.
Good fishin' to ya !!!
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Welcome!
I have hunted and fished with Scott for over 20 years and he often calls or gets together with me when passing through Anchorage. He is a good guy and knows his way around critters, fish, and birds very well...
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i am so jealous, nice fishing there guys, the two shark looking fish looks really great.
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i am so jealous, nice fishing there guys, the two shark looking fish looks really great.
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I only see halibut, king salmon, albacore, and lingcod... assume you have to be talking about the lingcod. We get lots of them up here, much bigger, too. The halibut are exceptional for that part of the ocean.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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some ginormous fish over here, damn. congrats.
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Wow!! We catch a bunch of flounder in Florida, but ours don't get that big!!
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Nice pictures!! Thanks for sharing! I always enjoy when y'all post photos of places I have never been, and probably will never have the opportunity to visit, especially the Alaskan and saltwater variety. As a salt novice, I have to ask, what in the Sam Hell is that fish you're holding onto there? A Cod? Based on its iridescent eye, I'm guessing its from deep water?
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Nice pictures!! Thanks for sharing! I always enjoy when y'all post photos of places I have never been, and probably will never have the opportunity to visit, especially the Alaskan and saltwater variety. As a salt novice, I have to ask, what in the Sam Hell is that fish you're holding onto there? A Cod? Based on its iridescent eye, I'm guessing its from deep water? That is a Ling Cod not to be confused with "Alaskan cod" you might see on a menu at a restaurant. We catch them off the reefs and rock piles at 30-120' I don't know their deepest range. They can weigh north of 60lbs but around where I'm from a 30lber is the gossip benchmark and that one was about 23. The one I'm holding in the smaller picture was 27
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