Swimming with Salmon

Here you can see Harry and Pat McDonald from Carlile Transportation (Ice Road Truckers), after a successful day of salmon fishing. The Kvichak sockeye run topped 2 Million fish that swam past Alaska Sportsman's Lodge in a three week period!

Pets...

Director & Cinematographer: Campell Blair
Cast: Brian Kraft, Nate Thompson, Tom Liddelow

Short clip of our dock pets getting a little snack from the daily catch...

Kings are IN!

The Kings have returned to their home river with great force! We have had days where we land 50 King salmon between two anglers in one day! There is no place left in the world that yu can catch those kinds of numbers of King salmon. Our "King Camp" is about 40 minutes by float plane from Alaska Sportsman's Lodge. The sockeye salmon have also shown up with good numbers so now is the time to have a great combination trip of Kings and sockeye. We have clients that have caught Kings all day long and then returned to the lodge, had a nice dinner and then go right in front of the lodge to catch their limit of sockeye! What a great time to be here!

Youngest trainees...

We make sure our staff; the pilots, guides, housekeepers, chefs and kitchen crew are world class. We are very proud to say we have an exceptional staff year after year at ASL.

In some cases we start them in their wee-years, so when they are legal to work they are well groomed in how to take good care of our customers.

Here Sydney and Amber, in "training", demonstrate that at 10 years of age, they have the "right stuff" to be a future ASL employee. Although Sydney will need to work on her shirt-buttoning-skills ;).

Kings, Kings and more Kings

When a day fishing for Kings produces 50 fish in one day, that's not only fantastic fishing, but one-heckuva good workout!

ASL clients who had a stellar day on the Nush, not just fishing, but catching to their hearts content.

Stop and smell the flowers

With the incredibly beauty that surrounds us out here, sometimes it is nice to stop for a moment to take in what really makes this landscape so colorful.

There are so many riches out here it is not possible to capture them all. This shot was beautifully taken by ASL Pilot & Guide Brian Boe while fishing on the Nush for Kings.

Paradise

A beautiful morning on the Kvichak River, taken from the view of our guest cabins. Let's go fishing!!

Still Working Hard...

Nellie Williams is clearly working hard this season opener showing us how to catch two 26" rainbows, one hen and one buck, in the same
"hardworking" day.

26" Lady Luck

While fighting mines and doing Spring research in Bristol Bay Nellie Williams with Trout Unlimited took a few moments to wet a line. Luckily she happens to be at Alaska Sportsman's Lodge on season opener to do so! Here she is doing her job with a 26" beauty.

Hook UP

Silvers are hot in September...4 ASL clients all hooked up, not having any fun at all.

"The monster took me into my backing and gave my quite a fight. This was on my float with Colin as a guide and Tue :) We had an amazing time caught a ton of fish and saw 68 bears!!! This was one of the most amazing experiences of my life-I loved every bit of it!"

"he didnt measure it but he said it was def 27"." -Sarah

ASL Guide Colin and Tue...nice bow
another gloriously foggy day in Bristol Bay....

New dogs learn old tricks

This is Denali's first year at the lodge as an adult...last year he was just a little pup (that looked like a miniature white polar bear) getting into all kinds of trouble. We shipped him off to military school in November of last year...well... really it was a beautiful Orvis Endorsed hunting program for dogs outside of Salt Lake City, UT. When he returned to us he was a "hunt em up" machine...still had his bundle of energy with lots of lovable puppy charm-but when it comes to bird biz, it's serious biz. Here he is hunting with Brian for a few Ptarmigan this past weekend...obviously he's pretty proud of himself on this day.

Serious Biz...

A beauty of a lake Trout, ASL Guide Collin

Hmmmmmm....I'm thinking Bristol Bay has NO place for something like this!!!

Sorry to the fellas on our staff as I'm sure you'll agree...here are the prettier faces of Alaska Sportsman's Lodge

(left to Right)
Stephani, Tu, Michelle, Sarah and Liz