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The Trash Heap
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 Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:03 pm Post subject: Fishing Trip in Doubt on Account of Mt. Redoubt? |
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Tyler, haven't seen you and the Crab consulting on Alaskan conditions lately. He lives downwind of Mount Redoubt. Did he shift from shovelling snow to hauling ash? Sure hope the Anchorage and Kenai Airports aren't closed when C.H. and I do our kings and 'buts trip this summer.
Check out the photos from the Alaska Volcano Observatory site, especially those from last night:
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/volcanoes/volcact.php?volcname=Redoubt&page=images&eruptionid=610
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krspykrmeburritto
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:54 am Post subject: |
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awesome night shots with the lighting and fire red sky!
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snakecan2
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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nice pics and link
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crab_n_fisher
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Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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Location: Texas/Alaska
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:52 am Post subject: Re: Fishing Trip in Doubt on Account of Mt. Redoubt? |
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| The Trash Heap wrote: | Tyler, haven't seen you and the Crab consulting on Alaskan conditions lately. He lives downwind of Mount Redoubt. Did he shift from shovelling snow to hauling ash? Sure hope the Anchorage and Kenai Airports aren't closed when C.H. and I do our kings and 'buts trip this summer.
Check out the photos from the Alaska Volcano Observatory site, especially those from last night:
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/volcanoes/volcact.php?volcname=Redoubt&page=images&eruptionid=610 |
Johnny,
The volcano forecast is continuing eruptions for the next few months, reminiscent of the 1989/1990 eruptions. As of this moment, the airport in Anchorage is shut down every other day or so it seems. Here in the land of Princess Sarah, 45 miles north of Anchorage, we have but a miniscule trace of ash, merely leaving any resident in the Matanuska-Susitna valley with a slight dusting upon a forefinger if glided, gently, across a vehicle's windshield subjected to the elements, if parked outside for at least a 24 hour period. Most of the ash is headed towards Kenai-Ninilichik-Homer-Soldotna, the land of deep-sea fishing for halibut. Of course, that all depends upon the wind situation.
Johnny, you know as well as I that I'm a "newbie" in this state; so my opinion may mean not as much to you, say as the old-salts (aka "sour-doughs") who have resided here longer, of whom may be able to answer your question better than I can:
An excellent thread to read:
http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php?t=47293
Other than that, schedule a trip. I think you and others will be fine. Right now the economy is the biggest worry, leaving charters without enough tourists or land-locked residents to make it fiscally worthwhile to either leave harbor or get towed via tractor for a deep-sea trip....
I'll keep ya up to date, Johnny. Crab is always on the computer, like ticks on a hound dog!
http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ronniehardatwork.jpg
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(Off-topic...and I'm know to ramble! ....I'm making the most out of my life now....Some may have tasted Maple syrup but very few on the grid have tasted the sweetness of birch syrup! Huh? I sent a post to Tyler night before last, of my cousin's plan, that will closely parallel this one!:
http://www.alaskabirchsyrup.com/abbisy.html
Nestled with that URL and cross-referencing with similiar, albeit different sites online, we'll find the extraction/refining process of tapping maple tree sap, contrast it with our wishful thinking and we'll have some great pictures coming your way, if you are interested. )
-- Crab
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crab_n_fisher
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Location: Texas/Alaska
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:46 am Post subject: hmmmm.... |
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Mr. French,
Even if you are worried about cancelled flights, please consider flying into Seattle and hooking up with a truck driver/long hauler from Craigslist. You'll have plenty of trucker jokes to share, plus a "pull over, Mr. Jerry Reed, me and the wife have to take pictures!" |
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hogheaven
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Location: Rockport, Texas
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:18 am Post subject: |
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Got plenty of family up there we visit every year. gonna be up there for about 6 weeks this year. Not worried about flights there as were driving. Flyn back though.
Been going up there for the last 12 years. Its a blast. Volcano or no Volcano.
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crab_n_fisher
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Hogheaven,
I'm without words to describe what you have experienced for years!....This.
part of my life is new to me. I just hope you and johnny post lots and lots of pictures.
I know I've promised 'em! Right now I have a friend who wants to float down a river for over 200 miles, shooting game and catching fish as we make a "run of it." Dude, this beats Boy Scouts big time!
I'm tickled to death to be in the situation I am in, and taking chances on it. I also know that I take liberties on this site and post off-topic stuff on it, in regards to my plans....I already have a blog online that I'll keep updated, and when the time comes, with satellite connection, you can see me, The Crab, nursing a wolf-eaten leg, and frost-bitten nose in the coming months as I make the journey, day by day, dragging my corpse inch by inch to assuage my crazy-arse dreams!....
Good thing I have some money saved up! |
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crab_n_fisher
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| Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject: "pay it forward....life is short!" |
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Hogheaven and Johnny,
Good news today! My cousin is leaving for Ninilchik, Alaska, on May 25th. Since I am not tagging along, to offer my services, due to work and other circumstances, he is bartering roughly 4-5 days roofing work for 8 halibut fishing trips through, arguably (?), the best offshore halibut charter in Alaska:
http://www.afishunt.com
We haven't had to worry about Mount Redoubt exploding for the past month, to send the outdoors economy into, well, embers, as it burns down to ashes, by unrefined brickload per footstep, and knee-deep on lower Kenai!.....until a couple days ago.
Worst case scenario, if stranded at the airport, we'll pick you up and take ya out dip-netting in Kenai or Russian rivers.....and lots of clam digging...And, on top of that, we have enough red salmon and halibut packed to send ya home with, free of charge.)
So far scheduled trips as of this moment is June 2nd and June 3rd.....Overall, between my cousin and I, we'll charter 10-15 trips for halibut....In regards to salmon fishing? 80 days....by ourselves and via canoe to secret spots, far away from crowds....
I'm so itching to prove my cousin wrong -- that of, "3-8 lb average rainbow trout up here." That, to me, is like excluding school-ey trout and harvesting 12-18 inchers per bag limit.... Stay tuned! |
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Tombo
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Location: Rockport, Texas
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| Wife and I are flying to Alaska in June. We will be watching the eruptions closely. |
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crab_n_fisher
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| Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 2:17 am Post subject: Re: "pay it forward....life is short!" |
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| crab_n_fisher wrote: | Hogheaven and Johnny,
Worst case scenario, if stranded at the airport, we'll pick you up and take ya out dip-netting in Kenai or Russian rivers.....and lots of clam digging...And, on top of that, we have enough red salmon and halibut packed to send ya home with, free of charge.)
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I know Johnny does his research....I was baiting him to see if he knew of subsistence/proxy laws...Non-residents and residents are only allowed so many fish per day, per species....With a proxy, and a "we need the fish for food" need, then one can stock up on much, much more.
As a non-resident neither he, or I, not living here for twelve consecutive months, to the very day, have no right to dig for clams or dipnet. However, I was not being facetious, but acting out of earnestness, as
in "you catch 'em, Jared, our beloved Alaskan Resident-to the-Rescue(!), and we take 'em, to spare our trip from that darned volcano!"....In other words, if he (or you) were stranded, and our planned scheduled trips coincided, then you'd be more than likely be allowed to tag along-- as bystanders....However, we'd feel guilty about our respective plights; and, hence, would want ya to partake on some serious river/creek trips to catch salmon, as legally permissible by law....
Today I was visiting the ADFG website, to learn if dipnetting was allowed this year at Fish Creek, in Big Lake, Alaska...That is a fifteen minute drive from here....We'll hammer it too!
Anyone who visits this state, and wants a free fishing trip, a kiss from Sarah herself (I can only dream!); and if ya love Alice in Chains blasting from a 13,000 watt-bridged stereo-system from a white Chevy truck, you then have free room/board/gas/trip with us!
Two week maximum! (Just don't ask about the legal herbs growing under those special lights!  Mom is gonna be sooooo glad we are growing the best crop of 'maters ever!  ) |
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captaintim
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| Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 9:01 am Post subject: |
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I lived in Alaska for 17 years and was there during one of Mt. Redoubt's earlier active periods. It does disrupt commercial flights, but doesn't usually cancel flights in/out of Anchorage for more than a few hours. Once they figure out where the ash plume is, and where it is headed, they can work around it. If you can't fly from Anchorage to Kenai you can always drive, and if you haven't taken than drive you should.
If it does dump ash right on Anchorage it is a mess, but I wouldn't hesitate to schedule a trip because of the volcano. I'm going up for Rainbows on the Kenai and Steelhead on the Anchor River in September, and I don't care what the volcano is doing.
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