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TillamookChinook
06-09-2004, 12:43 PM
I just bought my one-way ticket to Alaska. Woo Hoo!!

However, I do have to come back to Portland. I'll be driving back with my son who is finishing grad school at University of Alaska in Fairbanks. We'll be driving from about August 1st to 7th.

We plan to drive the Cassiar Highway route through northern B.C. and I see some river names that sound fishy, like Skeena, Babine, Kispiox. We won't have a lot of time to fish, but we will have flyrods and spinning gear and I'm sure we will wet the lines a few places along the way.

I would greatly appreciate any guidance on places to fish and/or camp along the way without driving too many miles off route. Maybe I can even get my son excited about fishing if he hooks into some good fish. Somehow I failed to pass on the fishing gene. He made two trips to Kamchatka in his volcano studies and didn't even take the flyrod I sent with him to Alaska.

TC

Tide Change
06-09-2004, 12:47 PM
Hey TC, good luck and have fun. Remember, we need lots of stories and pics when you get back. Hopefully, there will be some fish in the pics! :grin:

Fishbone
06-10-2004, 08:24 AM
Fish the Dease River and tribs on the northern part of your trip. I caught grayling in Albert creek near Watson Lake, YT. Also in Tanzilla RIver near Dease Lake. Grayling apleanty, and they like flys. Take a canoe and you can hit the many lakes on the way. I wish I had taken one when I drove through.

The Provincial campsites are very well kept. Don't overlook the BC Forest Service campsites. They are mostly unimproved, but give you more camping options, assuming you are camping.

Have fun, that is an excellent drive.

Abalone
06-10-2004, 11:18 AM
Yes ! That is one of my ultimate destinations. People I know that have travelled to Alaska and stopped long
enough to fish it say it is very remote and this fishing is fanastic. Doesn't get any pressure. Moose and
Grizzlies. I would think a boat or canoe would be very useful..

I 'd like to read more info on that area..

TillamookChinook
06-11-2004, 12:31 PM
I'll be flying commercial to Fairbanks, so I don't guess I'll be able to take my canoe along. Maybe I'll take my Outcast Fat Cat kick boat. Or maybe I'll just bank it.

Sounds like we'll be driving past a lot of legendary water. Skeena, Kispiox, Babine, Thompson. So many rivers, so little time.

TC