SEEING REDS IN ALASKA: Kenai Peninsula Envy

From: Boise Weekly | Date: August 6, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Alaska's Kenai River is aquamarine--a light blue, tinged with green--milky with silt from the glacial waters that feed it. It is 80 miles long, runs through two huge lakes and dumps into Cook Inlet at the end of the Kenai Peninsula on the south central Alaskan coast. It is cold. And it is full of fish. I stood with my father-in-law Gayle Sewell and brother-in-law Chad Vaughn (and three or four other folks), thigh high in the cold current, methodically casting a green and white salmon fly to the Sockeye salmon (called "Reds" because of the bright red coloring they acquire the longer they ...

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