you forgot to itemize one thing. making memories with your brother. priceless. glad you ran into the guy. I've come across so many locals who are exactly like him. ..
It was definitely worth the trip just for that - and I was really impressed with the local friendliness and willingness to lend a hand or give advice. Great people.
I liked the breakdown on the fish, to the cost of the epic fishing trip and weight on a the total amount of yummy fresh fish caught ..But remember the memories of an epic fishing trip with fam or a good fishing buddy is priceless ! "Any day fishing is an epic day in my book " ..
I love the outdoors and Alaska has always been a dream trip of mine. With the way prices are I have put it off to hunt and fish closer to home. This video has made me decide to look into it more and start planning a trip for the spring. Awesome idea and I enjoyed the video!
Really glad to give some inspiration - my big takeaway from the first try is to plan more time there. Also, there is a book called the highway angler that will help you understand what fish run at which times in which rivers… timing will be important.
With your Coleman propane stove, don't leave the tank attachment stem loose rattling around inside... there is a hole center-rear of the cooktop area the end fits into for transport.
The best method I've seen is to go to Unalaska and really load up on the charters there. It's so remote that you can get up to thousands of pounds of fish without issue. The only problem is if you don't like Pacific cod, because that'll be the bulk of your poundage
@Lingcod as a user name makes me instantly trust your credibility on the topic! 👌 Where is Unalaska though? I've never heard of the place. I've enjoyed the pacific cod we caught…
There’s no way to be able to catch enough fish to offset the cost of the trip. Especially for someone like me who has to pay $800-$1,000 for a flight. What we do look at is how much fish we bring back. Air Alaska charges $35 first bag, $45 second bag and $150 for every(50 limit) bag/box after that. So it’s $3/lb to fly it back.
Well… I feel like I got close and next year I just might be able to do it. Another trick I had up my sleeve was packing light and I was willing to package up a box of stuff and ship it home, and carry on even more fish in the freezer back you saw in the video… I figured I could get 130 lbs home for the $80…
there is a way. you just have to stay longer and fish hard, process and vac seal your own. I took 200lbs of rockfish, crab, salmon, halibut and cod back in 2017
I think you would have to get lucky with a halibut to break even. Spot prawns might work as well, as theyre really expensive. Salmon is easy but its really cheap. Maybe $15/lb. Honestly just go have fun. between the time and cost its almost never "worth it" financially to go fishing. In wa maybe theres an exception for Dungeness crab if you limit out.
The halibut thing was definitely a gamble. We went at the right time of year, and the people who went out the next day absolutely rocked it with some really big fish… I’d love to try and do crab sometime, but I’m not sure if anyone does a charter for that kind of thing…
Great video! Love fishing Bings! Although we fish a little further down from where you were fishing. Don't want to tell you how many pounds of Salmon we came home with this year. We also have all of our gear, like vacum packers, freezers, etc kept on our property, so that cost has been cut extremely for us. Enjoyed how you went about it on this video!
Nailed it with Bings, and having a property to store some supplies would be a game changer for sure. I’m definitely already refining my plans for next year, and the first changes is going to be more days fishing! Congrats on your catch! Any tips you have are welcome, this was my first year at trying to figure this out.
@@Shouldwegooutside I can hook you up for sure! Have been fishing the Kenai since 1990 with the family. Lived there from 1990-2000, but go back every year, and have property we are building a house, and store all our stuff. If you give me an email, I can give you all the information on how to make your trip, better, and more cost effective, and catch more Salmon.
Here you go! turo.com/us/en/van-rental/united-states/anchorage-ak/chevrolet/express-3500/1027435?endDate=09%2F28%2F2024&endTime=10%3A00&startDate=09%2F25%2F2024&startTime=10%3A00
Seems like a wasted trip trying to pay for the trip with fish. Just takes away from the experience when you put that kind of pressure on yourself. Not me. If I can't afford to go just to enjoy the experience I'll stay home.
I mean… I can buy it from Costco after a trawler drags it out of the ocean or I can pay for it in local tourism money spent… I feel like what I did was better then the alternative. Besides that, the fish management is up to the Alaska game and fish right? They track and allow the limits based on populations…
I do get your point though, I just didn’t feel as though it was the tourists in the river who were over catching, from what I could tell it’s the trawlers…
@@Shouldwegooutside Your right the biologist at Alaska fish sets the limit. I highly doubt the fish outsiders take has a huge effect on population. I would also bet those $$$$ those outsiders spend helps with the management of the fish, helps pay salaries of the captains of charter boats. So outsiders aren’t the enemy
chill out you NIMBY I'm a California resident and I slayed all five kinds of salmon last year on Kodiak. We followed all the rules including paying for the Alaska licenses and the salmon stamps, if you don't like the rules then lobby your local representatives to change them for non residents.
Non resident recreational fishermen are not the problem. On average non residents account for 0.2 percent of fish harvested in Alaska. Feel free to look into the real issue which is commercial harvest which accounts for 98 percent of all fish harvested in Alaska. When you have hatchery enhanced / supported salmon runs not making it back to the rivers it's not an in river issue. Trawlers have "reported" 3.8 million pounds of halibut bycatch Jan 1st- Octo 14th this year along with 38k king salmon . That just the reported numbers with the actual likely much much higher so please stop pointing the finger at non residents the math doesn't make any sense. All that being said when you go to Alaska you are a guest in their wonderful state. Go for the experience, it's a beautiful place don't weigh the success of the trip on how many boxes of fish you bring home.
you forgot to itemize one thing. making memories with your brother. priceless.
glad you ran into the guy. I've come across so many locals who are exactly like him. ..
It was definitely worth the trip just for that - and I was really impressed with the local friendliness and willingness to lend a hand or give advice. Great people.
I liked the breakdown on the fish, to the cost of the epic fishing trip and weight on a the total amount of yummy fresh fish caught ..But remember the memories of an epic fishing trip with fam or a good fishing buddy is priceless ! "Any day fishing is an epic day in my book " ..
Glad you enjoyed it, and I totally agree.. I just kind of liked the challenge of trying to make it pencil... "Boy Math" my wife calls it...
I love the outdoors and Alaska has always been a dream trip of mine. With the way prices are I have put it off to hunt and fish closer to home. This video has made me decide to look into it more and start planning a trip for the spring. Awesome idea and I enjoyed the video!
Really glad to give some inspiration - my big takeaway from the first try is to plan more time there.
Also, there is a book called the highway angler that will help you understand what fish run at which times in which rivers… timing will be important.
Awesome video, that’s def on my bucket list and also going with my brother
Let me know, I’ll send you all my best tips.
With your Coleman propane stove, don't leave the tank attachment stem loose rattling around inside... there is a hole center-rear of the cooktop area the end fits into for transport.
I had no idea about that and I own one of these. Thanks for the tip!
The Whittier charter could've helped you quite a bit more if you had limited on rockfish, halibut and salmon -- good job on the reds though!
The best method I've seen is to go to Unalaska and really load up on the charters there. It's so remote that you can get up to thousands of pounds of fish without issue. The only problem is if you don't like Pacific cod, because that'll be the bulk of your poundage
@Lingcod as a user name makes me instantly trust your credibility on the topic! 👌
Where is Unalaska though? I've never heard of the place. I've enjoyed the pacific cod we caught…
@@Shouldwegooutside it's an island in the western part of Alaska and quite close to Russia. Was involved in WWII and there's a monument there as well
That taco looked so good!!!
10/10! 😂
I love the shot at 15minutes lol, Napper van almost looks edited in in the otherwise gorgeous background
Awesome thanks for sharing
There’s no way to be able to catch enough fish to offset the cost of the trip. Especially for someone like me who has to pay $800-$1,000 for a flight. What we do look at is how much fish we bring back. Air Alaska charges $35 first bag, $45 second bag and $150 for every(50 limit) bag/box after that. So it’s $3/lb to fly it back.
Well… I feel like I got close and next year I just might be able to do it.
Another trick I had up my sleeve was packing light and I was willing to package up a box of stuff and ship it home, and carry on even more fish in the freezer back you saw in the video… I figured I could get 130 lbs home for the $80…
there is a way. you just have to stay longer and fish hard, process and vac seal your own. I took 200lbs of rockfish, crab, salmon, halibut and cod back in 2017
I think you would have to get lucky with a halibut to break even. Spot prawns might work as well, as theyre really expensive.
Salmon is easy but its really cheap. Maybe $15/lb.
Honestly just go have fun. between the time and cost its almost never "worth it" financially to go fishing. In wa maybe theres an exception for Dungeness crab if you limit out.
The halibut thing was definitely a gamble. We went at the right time of year, and the people who went out the next day absolutely rocked it with some really big fish…
I’d love to try and do crab sometime, but I’m not sure if anyone does a charter for that kind of thing…
Did you have a good time? Then you are in the plus column if you did.
Had a great time. Definitely going to be back!
what were you catching the salmon with?
We were flossing - it’s kind of an odd technique that is basically snagging the salmon in the mouth…
Never going to Alaska 😢
Why?
Great video! Love fishing Bings! Although we fish a little further down from where you were fishing. Don't want to tell you how many pounds of Salmon we came home with this year. We also have all of our gear, like vacum packers, freezers, etc kept on our property, so that cost has been cut extremely for us. Enjoyed how you went about it on this video!
Nailed it with Bings, and having a property to store some supplies would be a game changer for sure. I’m definitely already refining my plans for next year, and the first changes is going to be more days fishing! Congrats on your catch!
Any tips you have are welcome, this was my first year at trying to figure this out.
@@Shouldwegooutside I can hook you up for sure! Have been fishing the Kenai since 1990 with the family. Lived there from 1990-2000, but go back every year, and have property we are building a house, and store all our stuff. If you give me an email, I can give you all the information on how to make your trip, better, and more cost effective, and catch more Salmon.
Apparently it deletes comments that have email addresses...
William LeBaron at Googles Email Services (AKA gmail) dot com.
Great video!! 👏 who fillets better, you or Mike? 😅
😬 I don’t want to say…
Can you share/link the van rental you used?
Here you go! turo.com/us/en/van-rental/united-states/anchorage-ak/chevrolet/express-3500/1027435?endDate=09%2F28%2F2024&endTime=10%3A00&startDate=09%2F25%2F2024&startTime=10%3A00
It won’t let me share the link - It deleted the comment after I posted it.
Seems if you spent a few more days river fishing, and skipped the charter... You would have been better off cost wise.
I actually agree - but even just spending another day cost wise would have solved the shortfall I think. The charter was definitely a gamble.
Until you pay freight on the fish
He says how he got it home and the cost
Freight was included in the calculation. Cost me $80 to transport home as two checked boxes.
Seems like a wasted trip trying to pay for the trip with fish. Just takes away from the experience when you put that kind of pressure on yourself. Not me. If I can't afford to go just to enjoy the experience I'll stay home.
I mean, wasted is a stretch. We had a great time, and trying to make the math make sense was just a fun challenge. I get you though.
a big part of it seems to be the content creation and the experience itself, doubt he actually pressured himself to pay for the trip with fish
Sorry ....outsiders non residents shouldn't be allowed to take that much fish . The salmon stocks in our state are crashing.
I mean… I can buy it from Costco after a trawler drags it out of the ocean or I can pay for it in local tourism money spent… I feel like what I did was better then the alternative.
Besides that, the fish management is up to the Alaska game and fish right? They track and allow the limits based on populations…
I do get your point though, I just didn’t feel as though it was the tourists in the river who were over catching, from what I could tell it’s the trawlers…
@@Shouldwegooutside Your right the biologist at Alaska fish sets the limit. I highly doubt the fish outsiders take has a huge effect on population. I would also bet those $$$$ those outsiders spend helps with the management of the fish, helps pay salaries of the captains of charter boats. So outsiders aren’t the enemy
chill out you NIMBY I'm a California resident and I slayed all five kinds of salmon last year on Kodiak. We followed all the rules including paying for the Alaska licenses and the salmon stamps, if you don't like the rules then lobby your local representatives to change them for non residents.
Non resident recreational fishermen are not the problem. On average non residents account for 0.2 percent of fish harvested in Alaska. Feel free to look into the real issue which is commercial harvest which accounts for 98 percent of all fish harvested in Alaska. When you have hatchery enhanced / supported salmon runs not making it back to the rivers it's not an in river issue. Trawlers have "reported" 3.8 million pounds of halibut bycatch Jan 1st- Octo 14th this year along with 38k king salmon . That just the reported numbers with the actual likely much much higher so please stop pointing the finger at non residents the math doesn't make any sense. All that being said when you go to Alaska you are a guest in their wonderful state. Go for the experience, it's a beautiful place don't weigh the success of the trip on how many boxes of fish you bring home.