Tag: coho salmon

• Belugas, Whittier, and Cordova

  

  Healy was begging us to leave on August 29.  It was rainy and cold with “termination dust” snow on all of the peaks around us.  Water was rushing across the road as we drove it for the last time.  The weather became worse as we drove the Parks Highway through the edge of Denali National…

  Melissa Rudacille

  September 8, 2025

  Alaska Activities, Camping in Alaska, dry cabin, Fishing in Alaska, travel

  Alaska Ferry, Alaska Marine Highway, Alaska weather, coho salmon, Copper River Highway, Cordova, dry cabin, Whales

• Showers

  

  This is embarrassing,  but I haven’t had a shower in 8 days now.  Although…if I look at it another way, I am in a shower nearly every day as it has been raining a lot!   It seems it should count for something, even if I’m wearing raingear for my showers this week.  With the cool…

  Melissa Rudacille

  August 10, 2025

  Alaska Activities, Camping in Alaska, dry cabin, Fishing in Alaska, Life in Alaska, travel

  alaska, Alaska weather, coho salmon, dry cabin, fishing, foraging, pay showers, running water

• Whittier, Alaska

  

  We stayed in Whittier September 10 and 11, 2024.  While the tiny city gets mixed reviews, we thoroughly enjoyed it and would like to stay there again.  It IS different. In order to get to or from the city by road or train, you travel through a narrow,  one-way tunnel.  There is only room for…

  Melissa Rudacille

  December 15, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Fishing in Alaska

  alaska, Alaska Ferry, Alaska Marine Highway, Alaska weather, coho salmon, fishing, Whittier

• Whittier and Cordova, a few highlights

  

  This ten day trip deserves several posts.  We loved both Alaskan towns and definitely want to go back.  However,  packing isn’t leaving me much time to write. With snow arriving in Healy, we want to head south soon!  On day three, we left Whittier on the M/V Aurora (Alaska Ferry), for a 12 hour boat…

  Melissa Rudacille

  September 20, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska, Garden/Plants

  Alaska Ferry, Alaska Marine Highway, Alaska weather, Alaska Wildlife, aurora borealis, coho salmon, Copper River Highway, Cordova, fishing, foraging, Northern lights, Whittier

• Labor Day Weekend, Coho IV, 2024

  

  Fall is here with fresh snow on the mountains and fall color everywhere.   We spent 4 nights fishing for chum and camping at Sheep Creek Slough.  Four co-workers joined us, and all caught at least one fish. We got on the road early on Saturday to pick up a friend at the airport.   Thanks to…

  Melissa Rudacille

  September 6, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska

  Alaska weather, Alaska Wildlife, Bird Watching, coho salmon, Denali National Park, fishing, Grizzly Bear, Sandhill Cranes

• 8 Days Coho Count and Talkeetna

  

  We spent 6 days camping, canoeing, and fishing in the rain. We saw 6 moose, a river otter, a beaver, and 3 Sandhill Cranes.  We watched a Merganser mother with her 11 (!) ducklings scavenging and fishing around us.  We also watched the Olympics on C’s phone during a break in the rain. On our last…

  Melissa Rudacille

  August 15, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska

  Alaska weather, Alaska Wildlife, Bird Watching, coho salmon, Denali National Park, fishing, Sandhill Cranes

• Sockeye II Part 2 AND Coho Count I

  During the latter half of our 6-day “Sockeye II, 2024” I finally caught my first sockeye salmon by flossing.   Three of the four in the photo below are mine.  It was a lot of work and in a crowd, so I am still not a fan of this type of fishing.  July 29 we fished…

  Melissa Rudacille

  July 30, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Camping in Alaska, dry cabin, Fishing in Alaska, Life in Alaska

  coho salmon, fishing, running water

• Bore Tide and Bears, Sockeye II, 2024

  

  We planned this 6-day trip  around the Turnagain Arm bore tide.  C was working on the best predicted days, but we still had a shot on his first full day off.  (We will have a chance at a better bore tide in August,  but not sure if we will try again.) We likely would have…

  Melissa Rudacille

  July 27, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska

  Alaska Wildlife, bore tide, coho salmon, fishing, Grizzly Bear, Russian River

• Alaska in August

  

  C and I think August is the best month for sportfishing as we enjoy fishing for silver salmon (coho).  https://roaming-nature.com/2023/08/15/long-weekend-with-coho-count/  If you want to fish and visit Denali National Park, spend several days (or more) in Southern Alaska to fish, then head north for several days (or more) in Denali. We ate a lot of salmon…

  Melissa Rudacille

  January 20, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska, When to travel to Alaska

  alaska, Alaska weather, Alaska Wildlife, coho salmon, Denali National Park, fishing, foraging, moose photos, when to visit Alaska

• Coho Count III

  Total salmon for 3 days: 10 coho and 1 chum. M 2 coho, C 8 coho and one chum.  Running total for 5 trips this summer is 2 sockeye, 33 coho, 9 chum and at least 10 pink.  We released most of these fish, but enjoyed eating or giving away others.  Sept 8 – Sheep…

  Melissa Rudacille

  September 13, 2023

  Alaska Activities, Fishing in Alaska

  coho salmon, fishing