Why Alaska?
Why Alaska?
Alaska, from the Aluet word meaning “received from the force of the sea,” is an immensely large and diverse land of incredible beauty, majestic wildlife and rod bending opportunities.
Couple this quality natural resource, lodging that varies from elegant boarding to fish camps, fly out opportunities to unnamed rivers, camaraderie that will never be forgotten, and you can see why we at Castafly Travel invite you to experience all that Alaska offers.
Come with Castafly Travel and spend more time on the water.
Alaska, from the Aluet word meaning “received from the force of the sea,” is an immensely large and diverse land of incredible beauty, majestic wildlife and rod bending opportunities.
Nowhere else in North America can one view glaciers, photograph the brown bear, moose, caribou and eagles, and most importantly for the fisherman, have the opportunity to fish for trophy rainbows, five species of salmon—kings, sockeye, silvers, pinks and chums—as well as dolly varden, char, lake trout, pike and Alaskan grayling.
The grandeur of Alaskan fishing starts in the cold waters of the Northern Pacific. There, salmon smolt spend their first years growing large before miraculously returning to the exact location of their births to procreate again. The salmon’s cyclical journey from birth to death is part of the greater life cycle Alaska itself embodies. It is a land still relatively untouched by man’s interference, a place where the wild patterns of nature repeat themselves without fail. To understand Alaska is to understand these life cycles.
For the fisherman this means fishing for large trout and salmon that grow to epic proportions on a steady diet of the eggs and flesh from those migrating salmon. One quarter of a billion fish will make this migration, guaranteeing the fly fisherman large numbers of fish caught daily and the excellent chance of true trophies. At times it will appear that one could walk across the rivers on the backs of the fish.
The grandeur of Alaskan fishing starts in the cold waters of the Northern Pacific. There, salmon smolt spend their first years growing large before miraculously returning to the exact location of their births to procreate again. The salmon’s cyclical journey from birth to death is part of the greater life cycle Alaska itself embodies. It is a land still relatively untouched by man’s interference, a place where the wild patterns of nature repeat themselves without fail. To understand Alaska is to understand these life cycles.
For the fisherman this means fishing for large trout and salmon that grow to epic proportions on a steady diet of the eggs and flesh from those migrating salmon. One quarter of a billion fish will make this migration, guaranteeing the fly fisherman large numbers of fish caught daily and the excellent chance of true trophies. At times it will appear that one could walk across the rivers on the backs of the fish.Couple this quality natural resource, lodging that varies from elegant boarding to fish camps, fly out opportunities to unnamed rivers, camaraderie that will never be forgotten, and you can see why we at Castafly Travel invite you to experience all that Alaska offers.
Come with Castafly Travel and spend more time on the water.