My 2025 Alaska Caribou Hunt

[Silas_Norris]

Absolutely fantastic story. Thanks for posting!

Grayling hand over fist on the tenkara us the kind of gravy I like

Yeah! The pilot advised we should not bring rods and so we almost didnt! I was standing outside the plane and he said we would be too high and the fish wont be there. I thought about it for a second and then thought, well we made weight so why not just bring them? I did mispeak on the rod set up! I brought a tenkara but my buddy had a small little ultralight spinning real! It did not matter what you threw at these fish, they wanted it all and were not afraid of your shadow or you walking right up next to them! I have never experienced that before! I compare them to trout fishing in these small streams but the difference was that trout are normally fearful if you get to close and they can see you! These fish really were not scared! You could catch a fish pretty much every cast. It almost got boring after a hour of that at at time so we really started targeting the largest ones we could find! I would of seriously regretted not having my tenkara.

That said, if weight is a concern for someone the tenkara is perfect. Mine weighs in at 4 ounces I believe. Some line and a half dozen flies only adds another ounce or so.

If even that much weight was a concern I would just bring some line and some flies. You could of taken a branch and made a rod that would of worked enough to catch some fish! At one point I grabbed the end of my line with my hand and just dropped it in the stream right below me and caught a couple! So, it did not take much to catch them! I am not sure if the grayling are always to friendly and hungry but they were for us.

I feel like they may have been trapped in the creek to some extent. It was very shallow and as we walked it it appeared that it may of trapped some of the fish in certain pools. Not sure though.

 

[medvedyt]

if there is no fishing pressure fish tend to no worry about what they do not know like birds (grouse) or even moose or caribou and even bear. if they do not know what you can do they tend to be curious ...

 

[kwackkillncrew]

Hey there! I think you might of private messaged me but in case anyone else is reading this I wanted to reply publicly as well. The area we hunted required a RCXXX form/tag (forgive me if I am using the wrong language here). This is a over the counter unit (Unit 69B is where we hunted).

lets not blast units, also fixed it for you.

 

[Silas_Norris]

lets not blast units, also fixed it for you.

Sorry. I edited that out

 

[Silas_Norris]

if there is no fishing pressure fish tend to no worry about what they do not know like birds (grouse) or even moose or caribou and even bear. if they do not know what you can do they tend to be curious ...

You can see the fish in the stream! Kinda cool!