Alaska Fishing Trip:
Yes Bay Lodge
A fishing tale by Gwen & Gordon Bell,
Sharon & Gerald Smith
August 21-25, 1999
San Jose - Seattle -Ketchikan -Yes Bay
Ketchikan AK Airport Ferry Landing:
overcast, showers
Ketchikan: T-shirts, molded bears,
foxes and eagles, cruise ships, boats,
seaplanes and many tourists
Indian Totem Pole Carving:
handcarver1@yahoo.com
Port of Ketchikan
Ketchikan to Yes Bay
Yes Bay Lodge: Rustic Elegance
From Yes Bay Lodge front porch
Dining: great food & scenery
Telepresent Worker sans phone line
Exercising and reading
after a sedentary day of fishing
Salmon Swimming Upstream
Local Fishers
A typical forecast: We dodged a bullet
with 3 days of pleasant weather
Fishing…
with our guide, Jim Bernard
• Going
• Finding
• Sitting and setting the hook or
missing the strike
• Winding a.k.a. reeling
• Landing
• Admiring
• Showing
• Cleaning
• Transporting
Going
Finding
Setting the hook
or missing the
strike
Winding AKA reeling
Jim
Bernard
Landing
Admiring
Showing: Two 20# King Salmon
23 August 1999 Jim Bernard, Guide &
Gwen & Gordon Bell
Showing:
Gerald’s
70# Halibut
Cleaning
Transporting:
150 pounds
of fish
at only
$60 /pound
Eating…