Angling Publications - Index

Angling Publications - april2008 - Index

When my friend and international fly
fishing guide, Harry Robertson, told
me he was going to Alaska to catch
chum salmon, I thought he was pulling
my leg.
“I’ll admit that I don’t know all that
much about Pacific salmon, Harry,” I
snorted in derision, “but aren’t chums
called ‘dog’ salmon, because the Alaska
natives fed them to their sled dogs?”
After all, everyone knows that folks
travel thousands of miles and drop
thousands of dollars to catch kings and
silvers—not chums. Harry looked down
his nose at me before responding, “You’re
right, Beau. You don’t know much about
BARRY & CATHY BECK PHOTO