More from Alaska

I am heading out to East Texas this weekend, hopefully I will have some nice gillPorn to post early next week...

Until then, enjoy some Pike!


My buddy Pat getting out of the float plane on Alexia Lake

His Biggest Snot Rocket

Here there be monsters


How come I can catch a dozen of these, but I can't catch a cahin pickerel for the life of me!?

Big Shallow Lake


Gotta love the Tyger Wire!

Way to go Pasqual!

I love Umpqua Fly Boxes

I don't mean to gush but these are great fly boxes. I have owned C&F, Clifton, Orvis and a few others...but these Umpqua boxes are my new favorite.

1. I like being able to see the flies through the clear case.



2. The foam is really high quality and doesn't rip.



3. Variety of sizes and layouts.



4. Strong hinges and closing clasps.



5. Aesthetically pleasing colors.

I need to try out their streamer/flats box

http://www.flyfishusa.com/flyboxes/Umpqua/umpqua-fly-boxes.html

I Can See It Raining Fire In The Sky

Emalie and I visited some friends in Breckinridge Colorado near the end of last week and over the weekend. We went on a float trip on the Colorado, did a hike up to an Alpine lake to search for Cutthroat and visited a mining museum. We also enjoyed the mornings that were 38 degrees...


Colorado Brown Trout. Whater was high and muddy but we still managed a couple dozen fish...


Em's big catch...




Hike up to Mowhawk lake...

Don't go chasin' water falls...

Shrooms!

Emalie and Rebecca making snow angels

Rocks!

Emalie's Cutthroat

Snow in August?

Hopefully doing some fishing this weekend.

Been reading a great book about the history of Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen, It is a very interesting historical account of many of our nations key moments of the last 60 years and the development of "Black Projects"

Good summer read.

Our Lady of Perpetual Ephemera

For some strange reason I cannot leave reply comments on my own blog. Its like google doesn't recognize me on my office computer, and since that is the only thing I have that accesses the internet. My email jlallred200@yahoo.com is a far more reliable way of conversing with me.


Here are some shots of osme nice grayling I caught in Lake Clark Alaska.



Pretty Bronze Grayling


big and healthy


This next fish is a hyper melanistic individual. Melinism, axanthism, anerythism, xanthism, leucisticism and the more widely known albinism are all generally simple recessive or codominant genetic traits in animals.



These guys were a blast on a 4wt...

Emalie and I are heading to Breckenridge to join some friends and do a float down the Colorado ina couple weeks. After that its a family trip to Hawaii. I am currently making plans for a solo jaunt to Brazil for some Peacock Bass... few more destinations in the works.

Kontrashibuna Lake Trout

As I have written, I recently returned from a week long fishing trip with friends and business associates on Lake Iliamna in Southwest Alaska.

I and my friend Pat took a float plane trip to Kontrashibuna, a high mountain, lake that feeds into Lake Clark. It was a turbulant flight through a few mountian passes but when we finally set down the lake was dead calm. We fished a couple areas where cold streams flowed into the Lake. I caught a number of lakers and landlocked char on white decievers & gummi flies on my 6wt witha full sinking line.



My favorite fish of the trip!


Jaws!



Misquito going after my fish!

Forgiveness please!

I have been very busy, so I haven't had time to post my Alaska pictures...I will remedy that shortly. For now here are a couple pics from this weekend at Ray Roberts with my friend Pete...


Nice drum


Pete with his first ever Carp! Pete went fishing later that day and caught his first buffalo on the fly as well!

Way to go Pete!

Red, White and Blue Gills

Ok, So these are mostly Red Ears...












I am back from Alaska and will start a series of posts about my trip in the next couple days. Many big fish. Stay tuned!