The area is known commonly as, “The halibut capitol of the world.” Thousands come each year to partake in the exceptional fishing opportunities afforded in the Homer area. Homer, Alaska is at the end of the Sterling Highway, roughly 200 miles south of Anchorage. As if like time and tide, the perpetual pull on the ocean blue day-after-day, we are driven by an attempt to reach for something unknown that refuses to wait for us to catch up as we work, plan, pack, leave, fight traffic, radio silence and road construction, and at the end, when we stop driving we find rest for a weekend at a campsite far away, under a sky that rarely darkens this time of year. Watching this, I thought of how desire and action don’t always coincide. But we were late on arrival and watched from shore as the ferry made wake. Spend the day walking through the small town, geocaching, taking pictures find a small pub and have a beer. Our plan was to catch the ferry over to Seldovia. In fact we ended up here this year by poor planning and passive happenstance. Alaska is far too immense to pigeon-hole one vacation destination on a given calendar day and leave the rest of the trail wanting wear. We’re not the type to schedule annual vacations to one particular location. This is the second year in a row my family and I have been in Homer over the 4th of July.
The beach is not lacking in the presence of eagles. My wife is late in reaching her cell phone and captures nothing more than a blurry spec in flight across a cotton sky. It’s probably one of the many nesting above the bustling campground a 30-second flight from here. The scent of diesel rides slowly on the air, emitted by a hundred-yard-wide cruise vessel vacating port.Ī bald eagle, modeling for tourists on a large leg of drift wood quietly rises, claws a wave and lifts a dead fish washed ashore. and a light rain hovers clouds shroud the southern distant mountains across Kachemak Bay, while somewhere north the sun burns a curtain of fog skipping small fitful beams across the water.
Drag wheeling out echoes across the dark sand beach. Elias Park & Glenn HighwayĪs soon as the small piece of cut herring fell beneath the undulating surf, an aggressive pull at the end of the line throttled my attention like freak thunder on a calm afternoon.
Radio silence fishing series#
The Technical Papers and Special Publications Series.CSIS – Community Subsistence Information System.Cultural and Subsistence Harvest Permits.Subsistence and Personal Use Fishing Permits.
Radio silence fishing registration#
Western Alaska Salmon Stock Identification Program (WASSIP).About the Division of Commercial Fisheries.Alaska Resources Library and Information Services (ARLIS).Threatened, Endangered, and Diversity Program.Alaska Fish and Wildlife News (Magazine).Board of Fisheries and Game: Actions & Activities.