Ed,
How was the fishing?
Phil
Caught rainbows on the Bois Brule in WI; rainbows on the Galatin in Bozeman MT (scouted the Madison in MT and Snake in ID, but salmon flies had not yet made their appearance, so we moved on...); lake trout and cutthroats on Jackson Lake WY (mostly 17-inch); Arctic grayling and rainbows in the Yukon (mostly the Klondike river and Clear Creek); pinks (or humpy) salmon on Sheep Creek, AK; Peters Creek, AK yielded a nice 16-inch rainbow and a few grayling; and I finished up with my two-day limits of 14- and 15-inch grayling on Adler Creek on the road to Eagle AK; all but the pinks were killed with my 6-foot 3-weight St. Croix fly rod. And we ate them all! Even tried Beluga whale in Inuvik, NW Territory. Non-resident license in AK was $145 and Yukon $35 for full year. I got my money's worth...
On the minus side, it started raining when we got into BC in June, and was mostly 30 to 55 degrees and overcast and raining till we got back to Montana last week.
And we discovered something: The sun never sets, even in July, if you go high-up enough--the Summer Solstice/Arctic Circle/midnight sun/24-hours of sunlight scenario presumes you are at sea level, and at 4,000 to 5,000 feet the sun we never saw but briefly between showers was up around the clock, even south of the Arctic Circle, even in mid-July. EDM
