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The out camp underwent some big
changes for the 2003 season. We expanded our guest capacity from
four to six. To keep up with the added guests we expanded our
staff by adding an additional guide. The main kitchen/dining
room tent was expanded and new sleeping tents added. In a remarkable feat of flying expertise, an 18' jet boat was flown in to expand the camps transportation capabilities. The jet boat proved to be popular with guests because it cut down transportation time between pools and opened up new areas of travel by boat. |
| To keep campers clean we installed the first banya (steam bath) on the upper Ayakulik in 4000 years (native Americans lived along the upper Ayakulik thousands of years ago and probably had a form of the modern banya). Whenever you place a hot steam bath next to a cold water pool the inevitable is going to happen. We now have the Ayakulik River Club which is joined by completely submerging one's self in the river after leaving the hot banya. |  |
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Big King Salmon Day The single most remarkable day of king salmon fishing I have ever had the pleasure of guiding occurred on June 12. Camp anglers landed 138 kings with five rods. Not only did we achieve this remarkable total, but the largest king ever landed at the camp was caught this day. Bob Price of Boise, Idaho, landed a 49" fish estimated at over 40 pounds. Bob has made about ten trips to the Ayakulik and he figures he has landed roughly one thousand kings. This was the largest he has ever landed, truly a one in a thousand fish! |
| Kings on the Fly July 7 was quite a day for Arizona fisherman Calvin Quick. While fishing the day with his brother Mark, Calvin landed 15 kings on the fly! By besting Laurent Satage's June 2001 mark of 14, Calvin is the camp record holder for kings on the fly in one day. |
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New Discovery It's wonderful to note that after twenty five years of flying, boating and guiding around Kodiak, Island, there is still so much to discover. The 2003 season saw us fishing many new areas in both salt and freshwater. On August 29 clients Ray Sirois, Paul Sims and Chick Forrence and myself went for an afternoon hike out of the lodge. We had the distinct pleasure, while fishing a beautiful no name stream, of discovering a small run of summer run steelhead! |
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