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Welcome to our Alaska Videos section!
Below are links to a number of videos
that we've transferred over from analog tape to digital format for you.
Some of the videos below are very large,
so be sure to check the file size before you start downloading! We're
pretty sure that broadband access was invented just to download the
contents of this section!
We'll be adding some new videos soon, so
please check back!
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"Oh great!, two people filming and no one to net my
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Kasilof Chaos A
short clip from an episode of Fisherman's
Heaven TV show shot on Bob's boat on the Kasilof River during the August
run of silvers. You get it all here: jumps, screaming runs, double-header
pandemonium, tangled lines, burnt latex bait gloves, a less than
flattering buns shot of Bob, and a good net job (a lousy one too) ... all
in about a minute and a half. Large file, but everyone has broadband
nowadays :), except us!
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Russian Reds
About a one minute clip of a leaping and
running sockeye just downstream of the Russian and Kenai River confluence.
Please note this is a private party video ... we do NOT recommend netting
fish like this ... DUCK! You'll notice the other sockeye rolling around
the one that is actually hooked.
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Attack of
the sock-in-the-eye
Watch
Bob flipping for reds, then hooking a wild one and the resultant attempts of
the fish to land in Bob's lap and then cartwheel back into midstream flow.
Fishgal's taping, and her giggles tell it all!
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'You know, there's a hole!'
says Fishgal to her Dad at the
end of this video from the razor clam beds of Clam Gulch, Alaska. You can
see Bob work with a clam gun, and if you choose the extended version,
'C' dig with the shovel, and Steve ... well let's just call his first attempt with a gun
'a whiff'. What it's like to be in clam diggers heaven!
Short Version (just Bob with gun)
Extended Version (gun and shovel digging, and a
'whiff')
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'It's
another shooter'
yells Captain Bill. All aboard show the fatigue of
yet another 100 plus pound fish (six in all on this trip) aboard the Windigo on the waters
of Cook Inlet out of Deep Creek / Ninilchik, Alaska on a beautiful August day.
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'What are they, and what are they doing?'
is the question asked of these Sandhill Cranes along
the tidewater flats of Alaska's Kasilof River. While I can't say for sure ... their little
hop is likely some sort of a 'mating dance'. Short video, about 10 seconds.
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'Hey
Earl ... I've got a 1300 pounder!!'
might be the next thing the anglers
in the front of this driftboat are going to say to one another as Mama and Baby moose have
a little trouble judging the river's current and nearly broadside this boat!
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Playing Chicken
From the ocean waters near Seward. A small group of Dall's Porpoises tags
along with the boat as we head to shore. A fairly regular occurrence in
these waters, this is still a really neat sight!
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Just
like Hollywood!
Just how fast
and furious can sockeye fishing be? This video shows you! Hook up after hook
up and double fish net jobs are just part of this video that the angler
pictured to the left describes as our "Hollywood Video" ... actually,
we'd
describe it as the "Chamber of Commerce Video" ourselves!
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The Magic
Flying Boat
While we use a
different ramp currently, the procedure remains the same! This is perhaps
one of the most video-taped activities by our guests, especially on their
second day of fishing after they miss it on the first before realizing what
was happening!
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A perfect
release
Along the
shoreline of an island out of Seward, Alaska, Fishgal works a lingcod up
from the depths of the ocean. Using whole rockfish as a bait, you can see
how many lings are caught ... just holding on to another, smaller, fish used
as bait. This ling turned out to be a little sub-legal, so you get the
perfect release as he spits out the rockfish on top of the water.
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Up he goes
remarks Bob
of this king salmon among several dozen others milling around near the
spawning beds of Slikok Creek, a tributary of the Kenai River. we
apologize about the wind noise ... just no helping it as we watched these
kings chase one another on a breezy late June day. This a spot that is
very easy to access that's we'd be happy to point you to during your stay.
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Last fish of the season
Wow, this is an old
one! Watch the
last fish of our '99 Alaska season come to the net in this 'from the bite
to the net' video of a silver on the Kasilof River. Also the last trip
that we used conventional tackle as our standard. See the 'Kasilof Chaos'
Video above for how we do it now!
Murphy's Law
would have it that this fish wasn't a terribly good fighter ... the one
before was. Doesn't it figure that I forgot to take the camera off
"Standby" and miss the previous one!! Just two sizes due very large file
size with two-minute length.
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With much improved video available online these days, look for lots of new
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More Video Pages Links
Washington Videos - Underwater salmon footage, steelhead fishing, lots of
whitewater action, mass migration of salmon & more.
Instructional &
Miscellaneous Videos - How to put a
sardine / herring wrap on a kwikfish, several videos showing how to
tie useful knots, wildly leaping summer steelhead on a fly, Bob in a
less than controlled fight with a fish & more!
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