That is a nice Artic Grayling!
It took me many years to get my dream sheet assignment of Alaska when I was serving in the U.S. Army (now retired). When you join the Army they let you write down 3 places stateside and 3 overseas duty stations that you think you want to be stationed at if possible but most never get the places they pick but amazingly it all came together and I was assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska on my very last duty station. Being a Florida Boy (at least 7th generation Floridian) I really was enamored by Alaska and being a sportsman I knew it could be a paradise for hunting and fishing. I didn’t get to hunt there unfortunately but fish I did every chance I got especially on the little Chena River that ran right through the post. I bought some little Mepps spinners and through trial and error found that the simple silver one performed the best and I caught 100s of Artic Grayling from the very small 4 inch babies to a few whoppers, I also caught some stocked Rainbow Trout, Whitefish, Northern Pike (on a fly rod) and so many Pink and Coho Salmon during the spawn it got almost boring-almost I said-lol I now live back in North Florida but long to get to Alaska once more!
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andy
Tue, 05/21/2013 - 11:22
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cool fish
Awesome grayling, Mike!
perkinsdonald
Tue, 05/21/2013 - 19:43
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Neet looking!
like Andy said cool fish! Are they good to eat?
The gods do not subtract the alotted span in men's lives the hours spent in fishing.
Deftik
Tue, 05/21/2013 - 20:58
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Beautiful looking fish you go
Beautiful looking fish you got there Mike!
the pyromaniac
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 10:00
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Sweet fish Mike! That's one
Sweet fish Mike! That's one of my Holy Grail species for sure!
Let there be fire!
GatorGrip
Sat, 08/03/2013 - 12:02
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Great Grayling!
That is a nice Artic Grayling!
It took me many years to get my dream sheet assignment of Alaska when I was serving in the U.S. Army (now retired). When you join the Army they let you write down 3 places stateside and 3 overseas duty stations that you think you want to be stationed at if possible but most never get the places they pick but amazingly it all came together and I was assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska on my very last duty station. Being a Florida Boy (at least 7th generation Floridian) I really was enamored by Alaska and being a sportsman I knew it could be a paradise for hunting and fishing. I didn’t get to hunt there unfortunately but fish I did every chance I got especially on the little Chena River that ran right through the post. I bought some little Mepps spinners and through trial and error found that the simple silver one performed the best and I caught 100s of Artic Grayling from the very small 4 inch babies to a few whoppers, I also caught some stocked Rainbow Trout, Whitefish, Northern Pike (on a fly rod) and so many Pink and Coho Salmon during the spawn it got almost boring-almost I said-lol I now live back in North Florida but long to get to Alaska once more!