    
Dennis Dobson
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Subject: Alaska 2001
Here’s the info on this season’s Alaska trips you’ve been waiting for. I’ll be guiding for Alaska High Adventure Air Service, out of Soldatna, from the 16th of June through at least the 14th of July. The owners, Mark and Greg Bell are great guys with thirty years experience each, excellent credentials, an enviable track record and best of all they run a tidy, small camp.
I’ll be working on the world-famous Nushagak River from their tent camp. There will be just two guides and a maximum of only eight clients in camp each week. In the past I’ve guided for big lodges, some that ran as many as sixty or seventy clients a week through their operations, and wanted something much smaller, much more intimate this time. I believe I found it.
The camp is supplied with “Quonset”-type tents - very snug and comfortable, and comfortable cots and mattresses for sleeping quarters, a hot shower, cook tent and dining tent. They even provide a real chef, not some quick order fry-guy to do all of the cooking and they fly in fresh veggies, fruit and meat regularly. The wilderness setting is home to only the salmon, a native village a few miles upstream and our camp. The Nush is also one of the only truly premier chinook rivers in Alaska where we are allowed to use bait rather than being restricted to artificials only. This means lots of back-bouncing (my second favorite chinook method), bobber and egg fishing, and back-trolling plugs and spinners.
A relatively large river, about the size of the Willamette, the Nushagak is truly world famous for the sheer numbers of salmon that travel up its length each year. And, just to add icing to the cake, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is projecting a record-breaking king salmon run this summer for the Nush. For those of you who would like to fly fish for kings I have been assured that while it isn’t the most common method for catching these bruisers, it can be done. And you know I’ll have my ten-weight in the boat everyday.
These are five-day trips. Your package price includes one night of accomodations (bed and breakfast, motel or log cabin) the night before you fly out, four days of guided fishing and another night of in-town accomodations once you return to Soldatna. We, of course, supply all of the necessary fishing gear - unless you want to use your own rods and reels… we’ll understand. If you want to try these great fighting fish on fly gear you will have to supply your own rods, reels, lines, etc. I’ll supply the flies. All in all, at just $1,850 per person, I consider this camp and the fishing it offers to be a great deal. All necessary licenses and tags are available at the office. Non-resident fishing for seven days is just $30, while 14-days is only $50. You can purchase your licenses either before you leave home or once you arrive at the dock to start your trip. Just let us know which it will be.
As it stands now we have openings for the following dates: June 16-20 (four spaces); June 28-July2 (just one space) and July 10-July14 (Six spaces). If we fill those six spaces the week of July 10-14, there’s a good chance we can also fill a last week from July 14 through the 19th.
I have seen the photos, talked to some of their previous clients and truly believe this is best client deal I was offered. I really encourage you to give me a call and discuss the details.
This is a very popular camp and fly-in operation with an excellent reputation and a 75% return rate each year. Because of this extrordinary return rate and the short fiveto six-week season I’ve been told to expect 100% capacity no later than just a couple of weeks from now.
High Adventure also specializes in day fly-out sight seeing, photography and fishing trips and can equip you for your own combination rafting, camping, fishing trip on any number of remote wilderness rivers. If you think you’d like to put together something along these lines rather than spending several days with me in a remote fly-in camp, please let me know and I will help you put together any kind of trip you like. They have affordable packages for virtually every Alaska ecotour, photography, sightseeing or fishing adventure you can name. |
