Your next fly fishing trip to Bristol Bay may be guided by a local Alaska Native teenager! In August, 14 Native youth will attend the Bristol Bay Flyfishing and Guide Academy in Ekwok, a remote subsistence community located on the ...
I began my career in 1967 on the shoreline of Alaska's largest king salmon producing river, the Nushagak, near Ekwok. My job was to sit on a tower above the river and count the number and species of salmon swimming underneath to reach ... Bristol Bay is home to the world's largest sockeye salmon run, and it's a testament to the thoughtful management policies of the State of Alaska that it has remained so. The key to the high productivity of sockeye in Bristol Bay is the ...
Here's an interesting story about an innovative program that trains Alaska Native youths from villages surrounding the Bristol Bay area to be fishing guides on the region's many rivers. Yes, that Bristol Bay, you know, ...
Portrait 365/226. Lodge operators Dave Steadman and Carla Nichols at the Ekwok Lodge during the Bristol Bay Fly Fishing Guide Academy, Ekwok, Alaska (Photographed with a 24 – 105 mm lens). Share on Facebook. Post to Twitter.
Portrait 365/228. Alaska Pacific University student and volunteer, Matt Voy, at the Bristol Bay Fly Fishing Guide Academy, Ekwok, Alaska (Photographed with a 24 – 105 mm lens). Share on Facebook. Post to Twitter.
Portrait 365/225. Theodora Sutton looks over Clara Gosuk's shoulder who is holding her recently caught Silver Salmon at the Bristol Bay Fly Fishing Guide Academy, Ekwok, Alaska. Share on Facebook. Post to Twitter.
Wealthy anglers flying into Bristol Bay fishing lodges to sample its world- renowned trout and salmon fishing are often guided by men and women from the Lower 48 who venture north to work during the summer. Imported guides may know ...
EKWOK, Alaska - Two years ago, Sarah Palin landed near this tiny native village and spoke of her love for the vast and starkly beautiful delta that drains into Bristol Bay. “I am a commercial fisherman; my daughter's name is Bristol,” ...
Stop Pebble Mine | Pebble Mine Opposition Group from Bristol Bay Web Design and Development Company Naknek Family Fisheries, LLC … New Stuyahok, Alaska I grew up here in New Stuyahok and have been living a subsistence … ...
If we need another reason, which we don't, to repeal the Mining Law of 1872, consider what might happen to one of the most remote, most productive, fisheries in the world, the Bristol Bay area of southwest Alaska. .... I just spent 4 days up the Nushagak R. around Ekwok and New Stuyahok with my 2 young boys. Quite a few folks lost some of their king and red salmon when the weather went bad eariler this summer. Right now they are catching up by taking silver salmon. ...
